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  • The BIS Program is one of the best here at Arizona State University you can recieve two concentration areas in one package. Some decide to go the route of choosing two majors which takes you almost another two years accomplish. When choosing the BIS program, there are close to a hundred different concentration areas that an individual can choose from based on their particular interests. The student picks only two concentrations and through the last years of school, they are taught how to apply these concentration areas in your career. BIS will prepare you for a career after graduation in the classroom and in an applied learning study site (of your choice) outside of the classroom.

  • I moved here from Michigan where I had already finished two years at a University. When I transfered to ASU, I had the mindset of going into Finance. Well that all changed when I spoke with a counselor at the W.P. Carey School, he had informed me of the high demand to get into the school. It would have taken me another three years to complete college. Instead I went home, did some research on the different programs offered at ASU, talked to some students and advisors, and realized that Interdisciplinary Studies degree was the best thing for me. I have enjoyed all my classes, they have interested me because I had picked my own majors. Now being at my applied study I have used some of my knowledge from past classes that have helped me in skills to get a job after graduation.

  • The BIS core courses have helped to combine these majors, really understand how to put the two concentration areas chosen and apply them to real life. All these core classes are basically a preparation for the future, they help you in mapping out your future. BIS 301 & 302 forced me to think about my future, write down all the classes that I have taken and classes that I have to take to get my degree. BIS 401 gives you the option to choose your own applied study to work for the semester. All hours are recorded, papers are written on different topics, and most importantly you get a hands on experience to really learn about a particular field you may want to get into. BIS 401 is the opportunity of getting your foot in the door of a particular career for your future. BIS 402 wraps everything up, this course makes you think outside of the box, and lets you use your creative minds to come up with ways in working in teams.

Business & Mass Communication

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I have always had an interest in Business, I have always had that image in my mind of wearing a cute suit, carrying a briefcase, and working for a high end insurance company in some large city. Business courses have expanded my knowledge on ways to get ahead in this fast-track world, and maintain a self-image. Through all the Business courses that I have apprehended have assisted me in the process of planning, organizing, being team oriented, and the distribution of ideas. I chose Mass Communication because I hope to travel someday to other countries. My hopes were to learn about other countries cultures and be able to blend while traveling on Business. Mass Communication is my second concentration area that expresses globalization media as being quintessentially important to any career. I feel that this concentration area has helped me understand how different people are and maintain an understanding for them. Learning about the global media; its trends, institutions, and issues, will help me when approaching business opportunities with other countries all over the world. Mass Communication classes will help me with the communication skills during the interaction between cultural and political views across the world. The courses that I have and am are currently taken have assisted me to understand the differences among the diversity, motivations, and of how to improve different people. How you communicate with one another is determined by your perception of the relationship you have with them. Interpreting the global culture that is all around us and actually putting that information to use will determine the outcome when conducting business.

"My experience has shown me that people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so bad because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."

Business Courses
270 Principles of Marketing
Skills Learned: The process of planning, distribution of ideas, goods, services, and concept of pricing.
Knowledge Learned:  Identifying needs of consumers.  Advertising products and services.  Marketing concepts of vocabulary.
 
201 Financial Accounting
Skills Learned:  All stages in the accounting process and system.
Knowledge Learned:  Completing a balance sheet and income statements.  Adjusting journal entries, sales of inventory, accounting cycle, and bank reconciliations.
 
380 Management and Strategy for Non-Majors
Skills Learned:  How to plan and organize a business.  How to lead employees and be a team player.
Knowledge Learned:  Challenges you face as a manager.  How to be a leader and work as a team.  Management concepts and vocabulary.
 
380 Personal Financial Management
Skills Learned:  Banking and cash management.  Time value of money.
Knowledge Learned:  How to record your income taxes.  Personal investments:  retirement, stocks, and bonds.
 
382 Managerial Economics
Skills Learned:  Utilizes economic critiques to managerial decision making.
Knowledge Learned:  Managing supply and demand of the economy.
 
382 Advertising and Marketing Communication
Skills Learned:  Communication between advertising and marketing within consumers.
Knowledge Learned:  Created an advertising campaign for a product.
 
Mass Communication Courses:
110 Intrduction to Mass Communication
Skills Learned:  Foundations in the mass media as well as human communication.
Knowledge Learned:  Different types of communication within the media.  Journalism and visual writing.
 
473 Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
Skills learned:  How to interpret the differences between real life and mass media romances.
Knowledge Learned:  How the media influences our romantic relationships.
 
494 Political Films
Skills Learned:  How to write a great paper on a political film.  How to speak to the media.
Knowledge Learned:  How the media influences voters choices during a campaign.
 
494 Sports and Media
Skills Learned:  How to interpret sports into real life.
Knowledge learned:  How sports influence the communication between people.
 
450 Visual Communication
Skills Learned:  Using traditional visual communication to today's media world.
Knowledge Learned:  Using visual communication to determine our needs and wants in the media.
 
430 International Mass Communication
Related discipline of communication and media systems.
Communication between cultural and political views across the world.
 
BIS 301
Introduced concepts and methods of interdisciplinary study by critically examining anticipated 21st-century workplace.
How to use my two concentration areas for future work experience.  The start of my portfolio.
 
BIS 302
How to use interdisciplinary studies for human research.
skills Learned:  Finish my portfolio and preparation for BIS 401.
 
BIS 401
Skills Learned:  Experience at Applied Study.
Knowledge Learned:  Using what I've learned at the job site.
 
BIS 402
Skills Learned:  The final capstone course that wraps everything up for graduation.
Knowledge Learned:  How to build my creativity and generate ideas.

BIS 402 MW 3:15-4:30