Committee Members
Riad A. Ajami, Chair, Director, Center for Global Business Education and Research
C. Edward Arrington, Department of Accounting
Thomas Fitzgerald, Department of Anthropology
Jean P. Koenig, Department of Romance Languages
Frank Land, International Business Studies Program, Center for Global Business Education and Research
Dennis Leyden, Department of Economics
Paul Muchinsky, Department of Business Administration
David Olson, Department of Political Science
Riad A. Ajami, Chair, Director, Center for Global Business Education and Research
Mission Statement
The mission of the International Business Studies Program Major is to contribute to the strategic focus of the Bryan School by providing students the best possible preparation for careers in a global economy. The program recognizes the importance of language proficiency and the multicultural nature of international business. Those needs are addressed by using an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes both understanding the business and economic institutions and practices in the global environment and the nature of culture and the role it plays in international business together with language proficiency.
The International Business Studies major is an interdisciplinary program in the Bryan School of Business and Economics administratively located in the Center for Global Business Education and Research. The program is distinctive in the Bryan School by requiring experiences and competence in areas such as language study abroad that are not required in other business programs. The need to understand other cultures, societies and economies is met by requiring/recommending more in liberal education and cognate areas than is required in General Education requirements for other business programs.
