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Business Administration Department

Alaska's location provides ready access to business opportunities in the Pacific Rim. Its multicultural environment brings together Asia, the Russian Far East, and North America. Management studies at Alaska Pacific combine the principles of management science and the liberal arts to prepare individuals to participate in the international economy of the 21st century, when it will be vital that global business leaders understand not only the technology of management but the human side of management as well.

As a business administration student you will develop your knowledge and skills through a combination of classroom and practical experiences, team projects, and individual research.

Offerings include:

• Professional Management Certificate
• Associate of Arts in Business Administration
• Bachelor of Arts in Accounting
• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration & Management

Minors include:

• Accounting
• Community Agency Administration
• Financial Management
• General Business
• Health Services Administration
• Human Resources Management
• Marketing
• Public Administration

Active Learning

Examples of active education as practiced in the Department of Business Administration:

• Managing the APU Student Fund.
• Statistical simulation exercise to illustrate modern portfolio theory.
• Homework/take home exams.
• Application and integration of theory and concepts to practice in the DCP program (the DCP program requires students to be employed).
• Student critique of senior DCP projects.
• Computer simulation of real business problems and presenting results to those businesses
• Entrepreneurship students working on business plans with local businesses.
• Alaska Business Plan Competition.
• Marketing students write marketing plans for local businesses and discuss those plans with the businesses.
• Setting up accounting systems for a small business, or auditing their books.
• Evaluation of computerized accounting systems for businesses.
• Outdoor experiential leadership courses.
• Learning statistics through the use of student collected data.
• Case studies with group presentations.
• Role playing simulations especially in capstone.
• Economics experiments.
• Setting up a non-profit corporation.
• Socratic method class discussions.