Business Education

Rider University students successfully completing the business education requirements will be comprehensively certified to teach the following: Accounting, banking and insurance, business computer applications, business law, business communications, business mathematics, economics and finance, entrepreneurship; international business; keyboarding; business management; business organization, marketing; office administration/office systems technology; and exploration in business related careers.

Comprehensive Business Education, Marketing Education, and Cooperative Education Coordinator 

General Studies (48–51 semester hours)
COM-104 Speech Communication 3
ECO-200 Principles of Macroeconomics 3
ECO-201 Principles of Microeconomics
 3
  Developmental Psychology elective 3
  English Writing 6-9
  Literature 3
  History 3
  Mathematics 3
  Science 3
  Philosophy 3
  Fine Arts 3
  General Studies electives 9
NCT-010 Freshman Seminar (1 Supplemental Education Unit)
Requirements for the Business Education Major (48 semester hours)
BUS-210 Introduction to Law: Contracts 3
MKT-200 Marketing Principles 3
ENG-348 Small Business Management 3
BED-445 Cooperative Work Experience 3
MGT-201 Fundamentals of Management and Organizational Behavior 3
ENG-321

ENG 322

ENG-323

Workplace Writing: Business and Professional or Contexts
or
Great Proposals, Fundraising and Development
or
Reviewing and Publishing

 3
Choose one of the following:
MGT-336

MGT-355

MGT-363		 Career Management
or
Team Management
or
Management Skills
 3
MKT-320

MKT-340		 Consumer Behavior
or
Personal Selling		 3
  Accounting 12
  Technlogy Electives 9
  Marketing electives 9
Professional Education (30 semester hours)
EDU-106 Contexts of Schooling 3
EDU-206 Developmental Educational Psychology 3
SED-370 Teaching in the High School 3
BED 410 Principles and Strategies of Vocational and Cooperative Education 3
BED-415 Teaching Business Subjects 3
SED-431 Content Area Reading and Writing 3
EDU-465 Student Teaching & Seminar 12