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2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Finance, B.S.


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Finance Mission Statement

Westminster College’s Bachelor of Science in Finance degree program prepares students by building a foundation for successful entrepreneurship through strategic management, organizational behavior, ethics and effective leadership and change. Students explore multiple disciplines and participate in hands-on opportunities, while experiencing a variety of business structures. 

Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge (Remembering): 

Learning Outcome: Recall and articulate fundamental financial concepts and theories relevant to the economic landscape and markets, demonstrating an understanding of foundational principles. 

2. Comprehension (Understanding): 

Learning Outcome: Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnections between global financial components, such as risk management, investment strategies, and economic trends. 

3. Application (Applying): 

Learning Outcome: Apply financial knowledge and analytical skills to solve real-world and practical problems, creating comprehensive financial solutions. 

4. Analysis (Analyzing): 

Learning Outcome: Evaluate financial information, employing advanced analytical techniques to assess risks, opportunities, and ethical considerations in financial decision-making. 

5. Synthesis (Creating): 

Learning Outcome: Integrate financial knowledge, ethical principles, and a global perspective to create innovative financial strategies and solutions while responsibly enhancing shareholder value. 

This program, sponsored by the School of Business, includes courses from accounting, business, and economics. The Finance major offers students an economic background and develops skills for financial decision making and forecasting. Students pursuing this degree are interested in both economics and finance. Through this course of study students strengthen their ability to use analytical techniques for banking, financial analysis, and funds management. Imagine yourself an asset manager, investment banker, financial engineer, consultant, broker, or private equity/venture capital manager.

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