As a business student, you will be immersed in carefully designed experiential learning courses from your first semester to your last. With the cornerstone-to-capstone model, you will complete real-world consulting projects for corporate partners. This course-embedded, project-based approach challenges you to learn by doing.
The key objectives of the cornerstone-to-capstone model are to:
- Sharpen collaborative skills to work effectively in group settings
- Improve system thinking skills to integrate knowledge from all the functional areas of business
- Expand individual decision-making models to consider the ethical, global, and sustainability dimensions of business challenges
- Develop the entrepreneurial mindset needed to explore creative possibilities and recommend original solutions
- Strengthen skills to communicate and influence effectively and defend business decisions
The cornerstone-to-capstone model ensures that you understand the complex and evolving business landscape and can provide value to employers—all before starting your first job.
"Presenting to one of the Big 4 accounting firms during my first semester of
college was such an amazing opportunity!"
From Our Students
Courses
First-Year Innovation Experience Cornerstone
At the beginning of your academic journey, you will take the First-Year Innovation Experience course. The lecture portion of the course introduces students to: business disciplines, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and how to develop entrepreneurial solutions. The lab portion features the Innovation Challenge where students work in teams to develop a solution to a real-world business problem for an external partner.
Strategic Management Capstone
At the end of your academic journey, all senior business students take the Strategic Management Capstone course. This course applies all business knowledge and frameworks learned throughout the Business Core curriculum. The course includes a consulting project competition with a corporate partner. The partner provides briefings to the students and presents strategic business challenges. In teams, students develop sound recommendations that address the challenges.
Major Capstones
All majors have capstone courses. Finance and Marketing have track-specific capstone courses. See courses below.
Major Capstones
- Accounting - Corporate and Partnership Tax
- Business Analytics Co-Major - Business Analytics Capstone
- Economics - Advanced Econometrics Capstone
- Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship Capstone
- Information Systems & Technology - Information Systems Capstone
- Management - Strategic Project Management
- Supply Chain Management - Strategic Supply Chain Management
Track-Specific Capstones
- Corporate Finance & Investments - Cases in Finance
- Financial Planning - Financial Planning Capstone
- Digital Marketing & Analytics - Data-Driven Marketing
- Professional Selling & Marketing - Sales Management
- Sports Marketing - Strategic Sports Projects