Finance Major Learning Outcomes

• Finance Disciplinary Knowledge: Knowledge of financial concepts, systems, laws, tools, and applications and understating of their relevance to society.

  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.

• Creativity is the ability to synthesize ideas and information in original ways to generate innovative financial solutions, policies, and solve contemporary financial issues.

  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.

• Critical thinking is the analysis and evaluation of complex ideas, artifacts, information, and arguments as a basis for formulating a well-reasoned belief, judgment, or conclusion.

  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.

• Ethical Reasoning requires students to recognize ethical issues, identify their own ethical positions and analyze other ethical perspectives in real-world situations in order to consider 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 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.

• Communication requires students to recognize and utilize the most appropriate means to address specific audiences in relevant contexts or genres in order to effectively inform or persuade.

  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.

• Quantitative literacy is competency in working with numerical data to reason or solve problems, the ability to make judgements and draw conclusions supported by quantitative evidence, and the ability to communicate those arguments utilizing quantitative tools.

  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