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Northwest Missouri State University


B.S.Ed. in Business Education

 | Required Courses | Course Descriptions | Common Professional Component |
| Careers | Four-Year Plan View PDF |

Business technology, business education, and marketing education students develop interpersonal, decision making and analytical skills in dealing with office and business problems and situations. Additionally, education majors learn to motivate students to develop these same attributes. Students choosing a major in Business Education must take the common professional component courses as well.

Required Courses for Business Education

B.S.Ed. Degree, Secondary Program; no minor required (certifies grades 9-12)

Course No. Course Name Hours
44-320 Advanced Word Processing 1
44-330 Presentation Graphics 1
44-333 Web Development 3
44-340 Digital Media 1
44-343 Digital Communications OR 3
44-495 Internship in Computer Science/Information Systems     3
44-344 Desktop Publishing 3
44-584 Implementing Business and Marketing Education Programs 3
Total Course Hours Required: 15

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Course Descriptions

Course descriptions are listed in the the current undergraduate catalog.

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Common Professional Component

Requirements for Accredited Business Programs

Applies to Management Information Systems, Business Technology and Business Education. To ensure a common professional component among the accredited business programs, all students majoring in business education, management information systems or business technology are required to fulfill the following professional component requirements:

General Education Courses

  • General Statistics I
  • General Economics I
  • Non-business courses
  • College Algebra
  • General Economics II

Business Courses

  • Accounting I
  • Accounting II
  • Business Law I
  • Fundamentals of Business Finance
  • Managerial Communication
  • Principles of Management
  • Operations Management
  • Organizational Policy and Decision-Making
  • Principles of Marketing
  • International Business
  • Management Information Systems

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Careers in Business Education

Sites where our majors are hired: Public and private school districts in Missouri and many other states.

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