International Finance

Our mission is to prepare you to fully understand today’s economic and financial environment, while enabling you to evaluate and finance alternative investment opportunities and manage stellar portfolios. Your studies will be focused on the application of economics within financial and non-financial institutions and markets, particularly the optimal allocation of scarce financial assets, including money, loans, bonds, stocks, and currencies. You will also learn how to deal with potential challenges within finance like time, information, uncertainty, diversification, and hedging and asset management, all while concentrating on empirical predictions. 

The educational goals for this major are as follows:

• You will demonstrate critical thinking and the application of core competencies in business decision making.    
• You will demonstrate an understanding of how firms operate in a global environment.          
• You will demonstrate the ability to communicate convincingly based on data and conceptual frameworks, in writing and orally.
• You will work collaboratively to achieve stated organizational goals.            
• You will understand the economic and financial environment.     
• You will demonstrate competencies in the valuation of the firm, investment opportunities, and financial instruments on an international basis.
• You will master the fundamentals of portfolio creation.

Our comprehensive program will help you master a variety of issues within the international economic environments of the past and present. Our seminars are designed to encourage hands-on activities as well as in-class participation, while introducing you to crucial business and management concepts, the role of market supply and demand, diverse topics within international financial markets, and the legal environment within which today’s businesses must operate.

BROWSE ALL MAJORS AND REQUIREMENTS

The International Finance core courses, which you must take as part of the major requirements, will provide you with the tools you’ll need to ground your present and future studies.