The Social Impact minor and concentration of the Business Administration major provide BSBA students with an opportunity to explore leadership of different types of organizations – especially nonprofits and social enterprises.
Program Overview
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Nonprofit organizations are in the business of making the world a better place. They change lives and solve our communities' toughest problems – but are only as effective as their leadership. Dedicated and skilled professional staff members are needed to create and lead programs, develop and manage resources, promote or advocate for causes, work with youth, analyze data and carry out countless other essential functions. Through the Social Impact minor and concentration, students achieve the professional competencies that nonprofit sector employers seek.
Rockhurst's award-winning team of faculty members include senior leaders of local and national nonprofit organizations working in the field. They bring their experiences and networks to the classroom to benefit your learning and professional development.
College of Business & Technology Learning Outcomes
- Leadership: Graduates with an accounting degree from RU exhibit skills in personal responsibility, awareness of self and others, ability to work effectively in groups, and the ability to foster positive team dynamics.
- Ethical Behavior and Corporate Social Responsibility: Graduates identify and analyze personal ethical problems to propose and defend an appropriate course of action; identify and analyze issues in corporate social responsibility to propose and defend an appropriate course of action through an accounting career.
- Business Skills and Knowledge: Graduates define, describe and demonstrate foundational business knowledge.
- International/Global: Graduates learn to integrate relevant cultural, social, political, historical, geographic and environmental factors into the analysis of business issues and the development of an appropriate course of action through the accounting major.
- Information Analysis and Application: Graduates identify, access and analyze relevant quantitative and qualitative information to develop, select and evaluate appropriate courses of action.
- Communication: Graduates produce and deliver effective written products and oral communications in a variety of contexts using effective technologies.
Program Highlights
- Internships: You’ll gain professional experience, lead projects and programs, develop their professional network, and engage in hands-on learning in a supportive organizational setting through internships. Numerous opportunities are available, and you may earn course credit for your internship.
- Hands-on Class Projects: The program is grounded in active learning and hands-on experiences; class projects may include developing marketing and social media plans, coordinating volunteers and programs for youth, writing grant proposals to fund community programs, conducting community assessments, and interviewing executive leaders of nonprofits.
- Networking and Professional Development: Through our partnership with Nonprofit Connect and the Connext: Emerging Nonprofit Leaders program, students may access monthly learning and networking events alongside community leaders.
- Elevate: Students can attend Elevate, an international, virtual conference for social sector leaders and college students preparing for leadership roles in nonprofit organizations.
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Course Map
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This course is an integrative capstone experience focusing on strategy and policy development for organizations within the context of sometimes conflicting ethical constraints.
Designed for students who will serve as board members, managers, founders, consultants, contributors, or volunteers, this course explores critical issues in the effective, ethical leadership of mission-driven organizations – especially nonprofits and social enterprises.
As a nonprofit leader, a civic-minded business, or as an individual citizen, the ability to leverage contributed investment in support of community activism (in many and varied forms) is a critical skill in today’s economy.
This course presents methods for the identification of community needs, development and implementation of programs to meet those needs, and evaluation of program outcomes and effectiveness. Program planning tools such as theory of change and logic models will be utilized to inform program goals, objectives, and activities.
Additional Program Info
- Innovative coursework
- Internship(s)
- Professional development and networking
- Leadership and service activities
- Dean's Scholar Program – earn a bachelor's and master's degree in only five years! Learn more about the program here.
Rockhurst University's Helzberg School of Management offers an AACSB-accredited Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) with the following concentrations:
- Business Administration - General Concentration
- Accounting (Traditional)
- Accounting/MBA
- Corporate Accounting and Finance
- Financial Markets and Economic Analysis
- International Business
- Management
- Marketing Analytics
- Marketing
- Social Impact
For more information, contact us at graduate@rockhurst.edu or 816-501-4578.
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