Curriculum

The broad and flexible curriculum is designed for leaders in all business fields.

Embracing the Call to Lead

The Business Honors Program gives students an advanced education on methods and theory, but it also gives students a landscape view of the larger business environment, allowing them to make contextualized leadership decisions.

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Honors Courses

Our course offerings draw on years of business practice and the academic expertise of our talented group of faculty. Courses are meant to add an additional layer of understanding to an already rigorous business education. Many courses are dedicated to applied business work, while others take a system-level or a normative view of the business environment.

  • 18 credits through Honors Courses
  • 25 Honors course options available and growing
  • 4 PhD courses available to qualifying students
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Honors Why Business

One of the two required introductory courses, Honors Why Business, takes students on a journey through market economies as seen by its greatest champions and fiercest opponents. The course delves into the foundation of why we practice business and the role of business in a just and humane society. Students emerge from Why Business with a renewed understanding of their honorable calling.

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Meaningful Life In Business

The other required introductory course, Honors Meaningful Life in Business asks about the goods that we seek in life. What is happiness? What role does business play in our pursuit of a good life? How are our answers to these questions shaped by faith? Looking at sources, both ancient and new, allows us to reflect fruitfully on these ultimate questions about meaning and purpose.

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Colloquium

The Honors Colloquium is a hallmark of the Honors experience. On Fridays, speakers from a variety of business backgrounds come to speak to Honors students. Colloquium speakers are selected based on their outstanding success in integrating business, faith, and family. Following their presentations, students and speakers gather for a meal. This gives students the opportunity to candidly meet the speakers.

Colloquium

Two Introductory Courses

  • BES 30792 Honors Why Business

  • BES 20702 Honors Meaningful Life In Business

Two Intermediate Courses

Choose one from your primary major and one from outside.

  • ACCT 30110 Accounting Measurement & Disclosure I (Fall only)

  • ACCT 30160 Sustainability: Accounting (Spring only)

  • ACCT 40160 Accountability in a Sustainable World (Fall only)

  • BES 30310 Business & the Common Good

  • BES 33100 Work & the Interior Life (Fall only)

  • BES 43100 Economic Sins (Spring only)

  • BES 43300 Commercial Society and The Common Good: Classic Texts

  • FIN 30402 Honors Corporate Finance (Spring only)

  • ITAO 30160 Conveying Visual Data Insights (Fall only)

  • MGTO 40110 Honors Futuring (Fall only)

Two Advanced Courses

At least one of the two advanced courses must be a Capstone course. If taking two Capstone courses, at least one must be inside of major. If taking only one Capstone course, then one advanced course must be inside of major and the other advanced course must be outside of major.

Advanced Elective Courses

  • ACCT 40660/70 Tax Assistance Program I/II

  • BES 30310 Business & the Common Good

  • BES 33100 Work & the Interior Life (Fall only)

  • BES 43100 Economic Sins (Spring only)

  • BES 43300 Commercial Society and The Common Good: Classic Texts

  • BES 40470/FIN 40470 Corporate Governance & Catholic Social Teaching (Fall only)

  • MARK 40150/ITAO 40575 Pricing Analytics (Spring only)

  • Note: Some BES department courses appear on both the intermediate and advanced course lists. These are flex courses that can be applied to either the intermediate or advanced requirement. One BES class does NOT fulfill both requirements.

Capstone Advanced Courses

  • ACCT 40840 Information Flows in the Capital Market and Academic Research (Spring only)

  • ACCT 40830 Academic Research in Accounting (Fall only)

  • BES 48000 BHP Capstone Thesis

  • FIN 40640 Applied Investment Management (application only, BHP students are NOT guaranteed a seat)

  • FIN 40830 Academic Research in Finance (Spring 2024)

  • ITAO 40850 Analytics Capstone Project (invitation by department only, BHP students are NOT guaranteed an invitation)

  • ITAO 40860 Early Bridges to Data Science (invitation by department only, BHP students are NOT guaranteed an invitation)

  • MARK 40150/ITAO 40575 Pricing Analytics (Spring only) *only counts as capstone for BAN and MARK majors.

  • MGTO 43120 Research Methods in Management (Fall only)

  • MGTO 43150 Theory & Research in Organizational Behavior (Fall only)

  • MGTO 43125 Theory and Research in Strategic Management / MGTO 43130 The Upper Echelons Perspective: Theory and Research (Spring only)