Community Economic Development

Courses

Students who choose Community Economic Development will take three courses in either international business, accounting, finance, business analytics, or economics. Recommended courses include:

• Any of the Business Core Courses
• BU 320 Employment Law and Discrimination in the Workplace
• AC 344 Individual Taxation: Socioeconomic Applications
• AC 380 Municipal and Not-for-Profit Accounting
• EC 120 Environmental Economics
• EG 31 Fundamentals of Engineering
• EG 390 391 Senior Design
• FI 200: Global Capital Markets
• FI 240: International Finance
• All INBU (International Business) Foundational Courses (IL 50, 51, 52, 53)
• All INBU-designated courses
• IS 220 Technology and Society
• MG 235 Human Resources
• MG 240 Leading and Managing People
• MG 303 Special Topics
• MG 320 Diversity in the Workplace
• MG 335 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
• MG 336 Social Entrepreneurship
• MG 337 Technology Ventures
• MG 338 Managing a Family Business
• MG 350 International Law
• MG 360 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
• MG 370 Managing Non-Profit Organizations
• MG 380 Performance, Compensation, and Reward
• MG 385 Managing People for Global Business
• MG 390 Cross-Cultural Management
• OM 140 Project Management
• SW 304 Web Development

Field Experience

50 hours of related field experience is required to complete the Peace Corps Prep Program. Activities that can help satisfy this requirement include:

• Taking a Service Learning course in the Dolan School of Business, such as:
  
  • AC 344: Individual Taxation: Socioeconomic Applications: students prepare income tax returns for taxpayers eligible for free tax return preparation service through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
• Working with businesses, organizations, or cooperatives, in Accounting, Finance, Microfinance, Management, Project Management, Budgeting, or Marketing
  Starting and running a business or other entrepreneurial activity (i.e Fairfield StartUp)
• Training others in computer literacy, maintenance, and repair (i.e. working at Fairfield ITS)
• Website design or online marketing (i.e. intern with a non-profit)
• Founding or leading a community or school-based organization (i.e. a Fairfield club on OrgSync)

Students are required to have field experience hours and service learning courses determined or confirmed in writing by the faculty member teaching the course.