Business Education

Program Learning Outcomes

The following program learning outcomes have been established by Evangel faculty to define the areas of knowledge and skills that students graduating from this major degree program should have developed:

  1. Demonstrate professionalism and ethical standards related to appropriate personal and professional interactions and decision making in the classroom and workplace. 
  2. Explain core principles of business subjects including accounting, finance, business communication, business and personal law, economics and personal finance, information systems, keyboarding, marketing and management. 
  3. Explain the philosophy, mission and objectives of career education business education, including occupational preparation, responsibility to the business community, and responsibility to society, personal-use skills, economic literacy, training and retraining. 
  4. Summarize the role and process of counseling in business education, including orientation, career awareness, career exploration, assessment, preparation, employment information and trends. 
  5. Develop and evaluate career student performance objectives in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. 
  6. Explain the philosophy and goals of career and technical student organizations (FBLA/PBL).

Degrees and Certificates

Classes

BUED 111 : Elementary Keyboarding

Explains keyboard mastery, technique, speed, accuracy development, and elementary typewriting problems.

Credits

1

Prerequisites

Beginning students only.

BUED 112 : Word Processing

Examines word processing concepts, the relationship between word processing and total informational processing, and the relationship between word processing and business productivity. Includes three hours of lab per week.

Credits

2

Prerequisites

BUED 111.

BUED 275 : Business Communications

Discusses the objectives, methods, and forms of written and non-written communication in business.

Credits

3

Prerequisites

COMM 205 or equivalent composition course and 1 business course.

BUED 336 : Instructional Methods in Business

Examines the organization, objectives, content, equipment, methods of demonstration, and techniques necessary for skill building. Allows students to learn lesson planning for courses in typewriting, bookkeeping, basic business, and related courses at the high school level. Assists the beginning high school teacher.

Credits

1

Prerequisites

ACCT 232 and BUED 112.

BUED 337 : Internet / Networking / Webdesign

Explores current networking technology, especially related to INTERNET and INTRANET design. Development of basic WEB design skills making use of HTML and other WEB design languages and techniques.

Credits

3

BUED 353 : Methods of Teaching Middle School

Acquaints students or experienced teachers and administrators with the functions, organization of, curriculum, and personnel associated with the middle school and junior high school. There is a concentration on the early adolescent/transient learner. Includes an introduction to innovative instructional methods, a unit on the use of instructional technology, and a unit on evaluative procedures.

Credits

2

BUED 354 : Practicum in Middle School Subject Area

Provides students with observation and participation in the middle school, grades 5-9, with both non-instructional and limited instructional responsibilities. This course also provides students with a sequence of experiences in a variety of basic business teaching methods and skills such as questioning techniques, reinforcement, stimulus variation, use of illustrations and examples, demonstrations, and disciplinary procedures.

Credits

1

BUED 401 : Implementing (Vocational) Business Education Programs

Investigates curriculum development and implementation of vocational business education classes on the high school and middle school level. Incorporates research of issues and procedures for career and technical education in the public and private sectors leading to knowledge of core competencies for marketing education programs.

Credits

3