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Finance Major Learning Outcomes

  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate disciplinary knowledge by:

    • Recalling financial concepts and laws and their relevance to society,
    • Explaining the applications of financial concepts and systems to the issues of our time, and
    • Utilizing financial knowledge and tools appropriately.
  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate creativity by:

    • Analyzing current finance theories, systems, practices, and policies in new ways,
    • Recognizing the importance and impact of finance on contemporary social, political, or environmental issues,
    • Creating innovative financial solutions for contemporary issues, and
    • Solving social, political, economic, or environmental issues using a financial lens.
  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate critical thinking by:

    • Identifying and stating a problem or issue to be addressed;
    • Analyzing and evaluating complex ideas, artifacts, information, and arguments that can address the problem or issue;
    • Stating and assessing the assumptions and limitations of ideas, artifacts, information, and arguments that can address the problem or issue; and
    • Formulating well-reasoned beliefs, judgments, or conclusions.
  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate ethical reasoning by:

    • Recognizing ethical issues;
    • Identifying their own ethical positions;
    • Analyzing other ethical positions; and
    • Considering the impact of decisions and actions on other individuals, society, and the environment.
  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate communication by:

    • Recognizing and utilizing the most appropriate means to address specific audiences; and
    • Employing communication methods relevant to specific contexts or genres to effectively inform or persuade.
  • Upon completion of a Bachelor of Science in Finance, graduates will be able to demonstrate quantitative literacy by:

    • Interpreting and explaining information presented in quantitative forms (e.g. equations, graphs, diagrams, tables);
    • Converting information into quantitative forms when required;
    • Creating arguments and arriving at judgments based on quantitative analysis of data; and
    • Expressing quantitative evidence in support of arguments
Please review the rubrics for the above learning outcomes here.