Majors
International Finance
Major Overview
Our mission is to prepare you to fully understand today’s economic and financial environment, while enabling you to evaluate and finance alternative investment opportunities and manage stellar portfolios. Your studies will be focused on the application of economics within financial and non-financial institutions and markets, particularly the optimal allocation of scarce financial assets, including money, loans, bonds, stocks, and currencies. You will also learn how to deal with potential challenges within finance like time, information, uncertainty, diversification, and hedging and asset management, all while concentrating on empirical predictions. This program was created in 2009.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The educational goals for this major are as follows:
- You will demonstrate critical thinking and the application of core competencies in business decision making.
- You will demonstrate an understanding of how firms operate in a global environment.
- You will demonstrate the ability to communicate convincingly based on data and conceptual frameworks, in writing and orally.
- You will work collaboratively to achieve stated organizational goals.
- You will understand the economic and financial environment.
- You will demonstrate competencies in the valuation of the firm, investment opportunities, and financial instruments on an international basis.
- You will master the fundamentals of portfolio creation.
Learning Environment
Our comprehensive program will help you master a variety of issues within the international economic environments of the past and present. Our seminars are designed to encourage hands-on activities as well as in-class participation, while introducing you to crucial business and management concepts, the role of market supply and demand, diverse topics within international financial markets, and the legal environment within which today’s businesses must operate.
Core Courses
The International Finance core courses, which you must take as part of the major requirements, will provide you with the tools you’ll need to ground your present and future studies.
Introduces the tools of statistical analysis. Combines theory with extensive data collection and computer-assisted laboratory work. Develops an attitude of mind accepting uncertainty and variability as part of problem analysis and decision-making. Topics include: exploratory data analysis and data transformation, hypothesis-testing and the analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression with residual and influence analyses.
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Introduces differential and integral calculus. Develops the concepts of calculus as applied to polynomials, logarithmic, and exponential functions. Topics include: limits, derivatives, techniques of differentiation, applications to extrema and graphing; the definite integral; the fundamental theorem of calculus, applications; logarithmic and exponential functions, growth and decay; partial derivatives. Appropriate for students in the biological, management, computer and social sciences.
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Focuses on the role played by relative market prices in our society and on the forces of market supply and demand in determining these prices. Since the actions of consumers and firms underlie supply and demand, the course studies in detail the behavior of these two groups.
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Examines the determinants of the levels of national income, employment, rates of interest, and prices. Studies in detail the instruments of monetary and fiscal policy, highlighting the domestic and international repercussions of their implementation.
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Studies the economic functions and structures of financial asset markets, financial intermediaries, and money. It also presents the role of the central bank in macroeconomic performance of open economies.
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