Business

Introduction to the Major

Faculty members talk about what you can learn and what makes this major special.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Business Major is to provide students with ample opportunities to learn about mechanisms and actual operations of business enterprises in the market economy. Business enterprises play an essential role as the producers of various goods and services in the modern society. Modern firm's activities are diverse, encompassing areas such as managerial decision-making, fund procurement, accounting, human resource management, and responses to environmental issues. Thus the main objective of the Business Major is to help students comprehensively understand actual corporate activities.

Learning Goals

By encouraging to acquire the fundamental knowledge of business administration in business enterprises and non-profit organizations through familiarizing with theoretical and empirical research, the Business Major aims to raise students who can fully contribute to addressing the issues that today's economic society and business enterprises face.
After taking compulsory courses in business administration and accounting, students can choose and take courses from a wide range of courses offerings in the three pillars of the Business Major: business administration, accounting, and finance, following their learning interests. There students first acquire fundamental and essential knowledge that will not become obsolete even in the rapidly changing economic society. Furthermore, students will obtain the latest theories and notions so that they can understand the fast-changing economic society and can make necessary decisions on, for example, the internationalization of corporate activities, M&A, dealing with diverse stakeholders, and ability to respond to rapid changes in the external environment etc.
In the Business Major, we value senior thesis research as the culmination of undergraduate studies. Through senior thesis research that meets the undergraduate level academic requirements and fully uses the critical thinking ability that students have fostered at ICU, their theses are expected to produce theoretical and practical implications for the issues for the modern economic society and business enterprises.

Major Faculty

INABA, Yushi KANAZAWA, Yuichiro KANEKO, Takuya KOO, Ja Seung YAMANE, Satoka

List of Courses (syllabus)

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