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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Understanding lifelong learning
• Business Decision Making • Tools/practices of resolving conflict
• Written & Oral • Understanding the components of
Communications I critical thinking
• College Mathematics/PreCalculus • Basics of database creation
for Business • Basic management functions
• Intro to Business Methods • Basic project management
• Calculus I/Calculus for Business tools & processes
• Information Systems • Aware of ethical & diversity issues
• Economic Principles • Basic economics theories
• Science Elective • Calculus computations
& application
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Management Concepts • Higher level management functions
• Financial Accounting & organizational behavior
• Statistics for Business • Internal & external
• Introduction to the Humanities accounting functions
• Introduction to Social Sciences • Understand & use
• Organizational Behavior computational statistics
• Managerial Accounting • Problem identification & solving
• Quantitative Business Analysis & decision making skills
• Understand and use SAP
• Data warehouse design
State-of-the-Art • Practice moderate level database
LAB design issues
FACILITIES • Quantitative computation
& reasoning
Small Classes. Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
Best Learning Tools. • Intro to Marketing • Understand business analytics
Kettering business students have • Financial Management • Financial analysis & fiscal
responsibility techniques
the best of both worlds — small, • Lead Operations • Understand operational excellence &
personalized classes and faculty who • Business Analytics practice systems thinking
have worked in the business world. • Written & Oral • Moderate level teamwork &
Communication II
Kettering University participates in • Production Marketing Management leadership skills
the SAP Academic Alliance so as a • Financial Markets • Complex quantitative reasoning skills
business student you will have access • Lean Supply Chain Management • ERP systems
to the best enterprise software on the • Intro to Strategy • Data mining skills
market. By utilizing SAP, you will learn • Strategy Integration I • Lean operations & supply chain
how modern organizations integrate • Elective management dynamics
their operations and command a • Understand marketing as a process
• Integration of the business functions
global supply chain. • Moderate level complex reasoning &
You will learn from the best! Most critical thinking skills
Kettering business professors
bring direct experience from the Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
corporate world. You’ll be challenged • Higher leadership skills
to problem solve and to create and • Project Management • Basics of how business is
• International Business
push the limits to find cutting edge • Advanced Humanities Elective conducted internationally
business solutions. The journey is • Advanced Social Sciences Elective • Complex critical thinking in
challenging but your professors will • Business Law business, humanities &
coach you all the way! • Advanced Strategy social science
You will learn the fundamental • Strategy Integration II • Advanced project management skills
building blocks of true • Intermediate Micro or • Business, contract & intellectual
property law
entrepreneurship. Kettering Macroeconomics • Advanced team work skills
will prepare you as a leader for • Business Design Project • Business consulting
the global society. Our business • Senior Seminar • Increase written &
professors intentionally infuse • Two Free Electives oral communication
innovation and entrepreneurship • Science or Economics Electives • Conflict resolution
throughout all courses, inspiring • Elective • Complex quantitative reasoning
you to positively influence the future • Culminating Undergraduate • Ethical & social responsibility
Experience
of business. • Higher level systems thinking
