College of Business and Technology

Department of
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/
BUSINESS EDUCATION

Dale Zikmund, Chair

Professors: Zikmund
Associate Professors: Barton-Zimmerman, Colsden
Assistant Professors: K. Anderson
Director, NVCRC: Mary Jo Klesath
Lecturer: Lear

Department Objectives

• To prepare and upgrade professional vocational instructors for secondary, post-secondary and adult education programs;
• To prepare individuals for leadership positions in education and industry;
• To act as an interdisciplinary agent and provide a professional core of courses needed for vocational endorsement in the following areas: Basic Business, Business Education, Diversified Occupations/School-to-Work, Industrial Technology, Marketing Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Related Occupations, Trade and Industrial Education, Vocational Consumer and Homemaking, and Vocational Special Needs;
• To provide leadership in the identification of vocational-technical education research;
• To promote articulation between Nebraska high schools, technical community colleges, state colleges and the university system;
• To provide services such as off-campus courses and workshops to enable teachers to become vocationally endorsed;
• To provide professional development opportunities in vocational education.
• To prepare students:
• To perform in a technical and skillful manner the duties demanded in present-day business pursuits;
• To select and interpret experiences which lead to better knowledge and understanding of proper business procedures and of civil-social responsibility and behavior;
• To teach business subjects according to recognized methods and procedures (Business Education Majors);
• To appreciate the need for lifelong continuing education in a dynamic society and economy;
• To master habits, attitudes, ethics and ideals which lead to successful professional careers.

CENTER FOR

VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Director, Dale Zikmund

Objectives:

• To provide leadership in the identification of vocational-technical education research;
• To promote articulation between Nebraska high schools, technical community colleges, state colleges and the university system;
• To provide services such as off-campus courses and workshops to enable teachers to become vocationally endorsed;
• To provide professional development opportunities in vocational education.

College of Business and Technology Graduation Requirements

All students graduating with a degree from the College of Business and Technology must take at least 50% of their major area credit hour requirements from the College of Business and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

All students graduating with a degree from the College of Business and Technology must take a minimum of 30 of their last 36 hours of credit needed for their degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Students seeking a Business Administration Major, Business Administration Comprehensive Major, Economics Major, Agri-Business Major, or Aircraft Systems Management Major must take a minimum of 63 credit hours that exclude courses with the prefix BACC, BSAD, BFIN, BMKT, BMGT, BASM, BSED, BMIS, and ECON. BMGT 233 and up to 9 hours of economics may be included in the 63 hours.

BUSINESS EDUCATION MAJOR

The Business Education Program prepares its graduates to become effective teachers of business subjects in the areas of office occupations skills, accounting and data processing, information and word processing, and basic business courses in business law, economics, general business and consumer education. Business education students acquire competence in the subject matter of the business world and an overall understanding of teaching objectives.

Three options are available in this major:

1. Basic Business Teaching Subject Endorsement Option - Bachelor of Arts in Education
2. Business Education 7-12 Teaching Field Endorsement Option - Bachelor of Arts in Education
3. Marketing Education 7-12 Teaching Field Endorsement Option - Bachelor of Arts in Education

The Department also offers the Professional Vocational Education sequence for endorsement in Vocational Education.

Supplemental Endorsements are available in Diversified Occupations/School-to-Work and Vocational Special Needs.

Courses with the prefixes BSAD, BSED, BTE, and VOED are offered by the department.

11 May 2006
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