{"id":7093,"date":"2018-04-04T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:55:03","slug":"elizabethtown-college-announces-new-programs-expand-degree-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/elizabethtown-college-announces-new-programs-expand-degree-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College announces new programs, expands degree options"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In addition to two new majors, two concentrations, a certification and a 3+2 program, announced earlier this year, Elizabethtown College Faculty Assembly has approved a Department of Sociology and Anthropology major in criminal justice, and, from the Department of Business majors in finance and financial economics, a minor in finance, and two concentrations\u2014a self-designed international business concentration and an entrepreneurship and family business concentration.<\/p>\n

The Sociology and Anthropology Department\u2019s criminal justice major starts in fall 2018, combining the College’s full-time faculty with professionals in the field, to deliver the knowledge and skills needed to be a qualified law enforcement, corrections or probation\/parole officer, in addition to other occupations in the field such as victims advocate and social services provider.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith headlines, today, suggesting that our criminal justice system is broken, indicated by movements like Black (and Police) Lives Matter, along with the prison privatization and its\u00a0mass incarceration, Elizabethtown College is improving our society by creating a high-quality criminal justice major,\u201d said Robert Wheelersburg, professor of anthropology.\u00a0\u201cThe criminal justice major connects Elizabethtown College to its Brethren heritage, through its focus on\u00a0nonviolence, ethics,\u00a0human dignity and social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The criminal justice major connects Elizabethtown College to its Brethren heritage, through its focus on\u00a0nonviolence, ethics,\u00a0human dignity and social justice.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new majors in finance and financial economics, available in fall 2018, provide opportunities in advanced quantitative skills, preparing\u00a0students\u00a0for a variety of careers in business, but especially in banking, finance and the public sector, as well as graduate study in economics, finance and business.<\/p>\n

A similarly focused finance minor, composed of 24 credits including principals of accounting and corporate finance among others, also is available in the fall. The minor is intended to provide more choice to students in other majors who hold an interest in finance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finance major at Elizabethtown College is at the forefront of undergraduate finance education,\u201d said Emma Neuhauser, associate professor of finance. \u201cStudents majoring in finance obtain advanced skills in financial analysis and valuation, investments and asset allocation, security trading, banking and risk management.\u201d Additionally, through extensive practical training in statistical analysis applications, financial databases, as well as communication and presentation skills, finance graduates are well prepared to work with higher-level multinational corporate managers, marketing and accounting professionals, and other clienteles who rely on finance expertise to enhance profitable decision making.<\/p>\n

The College\u2019s new family business and entrepreneurship concentration is designed to provide an additional opportunity for international business students who are interested in starting their own business or working with start-ups. Increasingly, innovators and entrepreneurs come from all different countries and have access to global talents. They take advantage of technological advancements to market their products\/ideas worldwide. \u201cWe have seen great interest in social entrepreneurship where our graduates could use their entrepreneurial skills to address some of the global social challenges,\u201d said Hossein Varamini, Elizabethtown College\u2019s Turnbull-Jamieson Professor of Finance and International Business.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our students prefer to complete an individualized concentration related to their fields of interest. Since we offer only a few concentrations, we wanted to provide more opportunities for the students to propose a self-designed concentration\u201d such as \u201cSustainability and Social Impact of Business\u201d or \u201cCorporate Social Responsibility and Ethics\u201d or \u201cSocial Enterprises,\u201d \u201cData Analytics,\u201d etc., he said.<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in proposing a self-designed concentration in international business needs to consult with his\/her academic advisor and prepare a cohesive plan of rigorous study which must be consistent with the guidelines and be approved by the faculty in the Department of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to two new majors, two concentrations, a certification and a 3+2 program, announced earlier this year, Elizabethtown College Faculty Assembly has approved a Department of Sociology and Anthropology major in criminal justice, and, from the Department of Business majors in finance and financial economics, a minor in finance, and two concentrations\u2014a self-designed international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[764],"tags":[490,69,1128,295],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-and-academics","tag-achievements-2","tag-business","tag-feature","tag-sociology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}