Learners operations management major. I will teach you the all the day-to-day logistics, how to make sure everything's profitable, how to make sure working together, management and operation of a business that operates on a global scale. So they understand how international trade and culture play into businesses day-to-day operations. Knowing your consumer and also knowing your product or service that you're trying to sell. And it's all about figuring out how those two intersect. My major taught me not only management skills, life skills. This major is super customizable. You study globalisation and then you design a program that best fits your interests like marketing, economics, data analytics, and so much more. All right, Good evening and welcome to the Lerner College of Business and Economics virtual major discovery assessment. On tonight we're going to be talking about the business administration majors including marketing management and operations management. So thank you so much for joining us this evening. We are really excited to have you. My name is Alex Huey. I'm a learner graduate and I'm also our learner experience and visitor experience coordinator. It's my pleasure to invite you to our session this evening and I want to take just a moment to explain how this evening's session will work. To begin, this is a Zoom webinar. So what that means is we can see you by excuse me, Excuse me. So you can see us, but we cannot see you. So in just a couple of minutes, be able to see us all on screen. If you have any questions during the webinar, feel free to ask them using the zoom Q and a button that is located on the toolbar. And we'll use that as an opportunity to answer any of the questions that you may have about the different majors. As far as how this evening is, the session, it will work. In just a moment. We'll start with a brief overview of the Lerner College of Business and Economics. We'll touch briefly on the management, marketing and operations management majors, as well as the international business and global enterprise, global enterprise management majors. And then finally, we'll introduce our student panelists that comprise these majors that have the gives you the opportunity to hear from them directly during our Q and a session. So we're excited to have you here this evening for the next hour or so. And at this point, I'd like to turn it over to Dr. Andre ever art? Thank you, Alex. And evening, everyone. Thank you for spending the next hour with us learning about the Lerner College business and mainly the majors in the business administration department. As Alex said, I am Andrea. I'm the Associate Dean for undergraduate programs at the Lerner College of Business, as well as a professor of Management Information Systems. And joining me today is Dr. Julia by 2k, a professor of Marketing and the advisor for honors as well as for the Business Administration students. I'd like to remind you, as Alex just said, that although you can see as we can see you, but that does not mean that we don't want to hear from you. So please feel free to put your questions in the Q and a function. Alex, Next slide, please. There are five things that I would like to mention that contribute to what we call the UD learner advantage. The first one is that UT is really a great place to be an undergraduate student. We have about 17 thousand undergraduate students and 4 thousand graduate students. From those numbers, you can see that our primary focus is on undergraduate education and making sure that we provide our students with what really gives them the best undergraduate experience. We do this by offering so many opportunities to our students, including student clubs, social events, student life, internships. The list goes on and on. And of course, on top of that, we offered outstanding academic experience. Second, learner has very high-quality programs and faculty. We are AACSB accredited, which you can think of as the gold standard is the good housekeeping seal of approval and are highly ranked in the top 100. Considering that there are over 2000 program, UD really is among the best. And if I may provide you with just a small piece of advice. As you look at different colleges and find the one that fits you. Of course, we'd like you to come to UT, but we also understand that it has to be the right fit for you. It's a four-year commitment and we want you to have the best experience possible. One thing though, is make sure that the college you choose is AACSB accredited. Third, learner is large enough to offer you many choices of majors, minors, internships and other experiential learning opportunities. We have 17 majors and many minors from which you can choose. A minor really offers you the ability to concentrate on an area that you find interesting without the commitment of majoring in that discipline. About a third of our students have at least one minor. And minors are a great way to customize your degree and broaden your education. We have minors within the Lerner College of Business, but you can also minor outside of the business school. Several of our students also double-major if that's when you would like to do. And by working with the advisors, most students who double-major are still able to graduate within four years. We are also small enough, can be very personal. A very personal place with relatively small class sizes. One-on-one advising, tutoring, and career services Will altogether make you a successful student in learner. I'd like to mention that here, learner has its own dedicated career services center. And as a learner student, you have access to the dedicated learner Career Services Center. We of course offer many standard services that career centers do resume, job internship, search, interviewing, salary negotiation, and on and on. I'm Dr. by 2k. We'll talk more extensively about some of the more specialized programs that we offer through the Career Services Center or like the executive mentoring program and the learner edge program. And then finally, New York is a small college town close to the major urban hubs are Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, and DC. You get that small town college feeling with easy access to urban centers. And for someone who grew up in a very large city outside of this country, I can tell you they, UD offers the best of both worlds. These are the five key differentiators and they are part of what allows our students to achieve success. We know that your education is an investment, which is why we're proud that the University of Delaware is consistently ranked among topologists and universities for return on investment and value. I will now turn it over to Dr. Julia by UK. We'll take it from here. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Well, good evening everybody. It's awesome that you have to join us. I am a faculty at the Lerner College. I've been here for 13 years. I also run our intro to business program. So I'll talk in a little bit about a course called BLAT 110, the basics of business course that I oversee and I help coordinate the program for that. I'm also an academic advisor and so I work really closely with a lot of students in our department and work with the honor students from freshman to senior year. But I actually advise right now all of the marketing management and operation management students on majors, on minors, on career paths and help them make connections. So I do a little bit of everything here. I wanted to touch base first about our study abroad programs. I think this is something really unique to Delaware. Delaware, you can study abroad during winter session. You could study abroad during summer session. You can study abroad during spring or fall session. The beauty of the way that our semesters are designed is that we have our normal fall session runs maybe end of August until about mid-December. And then our spring semester doesn't start till about the first or second week of February, then it runs until about mid-May. And what makes that really nice is that we have a winter session that's five weeks long, that allows for study abroad program. And during that study abroad program, typically groups of students go with you. Deepak will teach you other countries and take classes in these other countries. A lot of UT students also do semesters abroad. If you're interested in international business, you have to do a semester abroad as part of your program. If you're interested in our world Scholars Program, you end up doing two semesters abroad, full semesters abroad. In a country, a sort of of your choice. The one really interesting thing I also wanted to print out about study abroad is, first of all, you could study abroad more than once. But we actually have programs that we call freshmen friendly or the university cost freshmen friendly. And there's a website called the Institute of Global Studies and acute just Google, the Institute of Global Studies, u del, you'll get there. And you could actually even look at winter programs, spring programs, summer programs, what's coming up? And there's a line that says freshmen friendly. In other words, you can come to campus. And even if you're not abroad, your first semester as a world scholars did it. You can go take a science or a history course in the winter during your first year, after your first semester. You can also go on a business study abroad program. Those tend to be some of the upper-level courses. So International Marketing, International Management, international operations management, even international finance. There's a variety of courses. It varies each year. I'm depending on which faculty are running the programs that they go to Thailand, Australia, all sorts of places. Even when COVID hit, we said regard to Hawaii because that, sorry, we're able to go, but the opportunities for study abroad are really neat. Because not only are you taking classes somewhere else in these winner business sessions, you're going to visit companies. There's a lot of different company visits and you see hands-on how these different companies operate in a global environment. Next, like pigs arts. There are a lot of resources here. I think you know, this session is specific for this BAD business administration department. So the Business Administration department includes majors like marketing management, operations management, international business and global enterprise management. But there's Miners with in just our department. Within our department, there are students that minor and advertising their students that minor and professional sales and sales management. There's lots of minors in across learner. And as Dr. ever read set of miners like six classes at most. But the neat thing about our department is that you can also really easily double-major within the department or within learner. Sometimes double majoring and learners only about five extra classes. So a lot of our students who come in either business and declared or even knowing we're thinking they know what major they want to do. They often change their minds. Were sometimes they add another major or add a minor. Or in some cases we have students that have three majors and minors. And so there's lots of flexibility. And when the nice things I think about learners that we work really hard to help you figure out what it is that you want to do and help you figure out how can we link your major, your minors, your internships, your experiences to help you achieve that goal. And so one of the ways we do that is the UAG 110. So BYUI D1 10 is the basics of business course. It is, of course, that every student takes first semester. I oversee, sort of coordinate the course that's taught across 20 sections. It's taught by people in all different industries. We have somebody features that who is a partner in a law firm, we have somebody else who runs their own consulting practice, somebody else who is recently CEO of a company. So a lot of the people that teach it from a really neat experiences and backgrounds. It embedded into this course or days and every major, we spend a day on marketing and management and finance and hospitality and sport management. As part of this class will work in a team on a project for a real company. So we lift time. We worked with Gore and Pepsi and Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Delaware State Park to help them solve business problems through really quickly. You're getting it and you're getting business experiences and starting to see all different parts of business. As part of this, you also watch alumni videos and connect with upperclassmen. And you work very closely with a teaching assistant and a peer mentor. So one of our panelists today, for example, was one, What am I teaching assistants? This semester? You get to work very closely with upperclassmen to help you figure out the university and to help you figure out majors and different opportunities. And really there are really no better people and upperclassmen to connect you to some of the clubs and other opportunities across campus. They learn about them themselves. As Dr. Everett also mentioned, learners unique and that learner has its own career services center. I'm going if you've come to any of the events, you might have heard, response a job content, speak. She's the director of the learner Career Services, and she's an incredible resource. So she works very closely with BYOD 110. Our students have their resumes done, their LinkedIn profiles, the air, all that is done their very first semester. But there's a lot of different tools that Career Services has to help students figure out what it is that they might be good at and what it is that might be interesting to them. And so all the students are encouraged to meet with career services. Their very first semester, Career Services has walk-in hours every single day. We do, I think a great job explaining to students how the different majors can lead to different career outcomes. The other really nice things, like I said, it's really easy for students to change their major within learner. So if you start something and you decide that you don't love it, you can change it. There's many opportunities to do so. And to the other way that a lot of students also learn about majors is joining clubs. So we have a Marketing Club and Operations Management Club and a finance club. And you could join these different clubs to learn more from some of the panelists and upperclassmen and faculty that work closely with these clubs. And that also can expose you really early on to these different facets of business. Mix Italics. Learner also has very specialized programs like Professor very sad, right? We have this Career Services Center and they do resumes and jobs and internship, search and teacher about it, you know how to do some interviewing. They also have a program called learner careers in Wall Street. And this is really more of Finance program, but a lot of the analytic students like this one as well. And it really bridges the gap between Udi and finance. One of the things if you've come to any events for a learner is that we have really incredible alumni. I connect with our alumni all the time. I actually got an email from one this morning who just got into NYU Law, who graduated a couple of years ago. But our students overall, our alumni want to help current students. So how this is set out, but this is set up with alumni living and working in New York City. They work with our students. Our students are provided mentorship, an internship referrals and career coaching. And there's a bunch of alumni networking. So this is really for students we're interested in where the financial realm, we have a career experts panel. This is actually fairly new and started a few years ago. And once again, we have a lot of alumni and Mencius, you want it to get back really when COVID first hit, they were trying to figure out how they can help. And so we started having these panels on topics like interviewing imposter syndrome. What can you do with certain degrees or skill sets like marketing analytics? And they're all recorded. If you miss one, you can still gain the knowledge from it. We also have an amazing executive mentorship program. This is where individuals and industry who've been out for at least ten years of business experience. There are helping mentor our students. And actually from student's standpoint, any students who once and mentor gets a mentor, the learner Career Services interviews each student for this program just so they can better understand the goals that the student has in terms of career path, and then sets them up with a mentor. Not only helps the students in the job search, but oftentimes open doors for them. And I'll tell you from personal experience, I've seen these mentors replaced parents for different awards ceremonies and other programs. Things that are important to a student, but maybe their parents can't make it. I've seen the mentor show up to these kind of programs and that says a lot about the kind of relationships that end up being formed. And then the last part I just wanted to touch upon, and there are many, is the learner edge program. So there's three main boards, kinda within learner. There's an advisory board, there's an alumni board, and there's something called a New York City Dean's Council. And so the part of the role as board members, as they provide advice to the deal with the learner. But they've been wanting more and more to help our students write. A lot of these individuals are alumni, are super high up and what they're doing in the world of business. And so the way that the learner x program works is that students are provided with a list of volunteers. And these volunteers are impressive, really, really impressive individuals. And they set up one-on-one meetings so they can discuss the resume and interview skills and interests. And even though this program is created about a year ago, they've worked with over a 100 students at. So there's a lot of these really interesting programs run by career services. You can go to career services as often as you'd like. Career Services brings employers right to campus in the business building on the first floor of our cornell Hall. There's an employer every single day wanting to meet students, often bribing them with donuts and pretzels just to come say hello, but there's lots of connections to be made at learner. So next, like results. So I just wanted to walk you through a little bit of the majors themselves. The learner has five departments, and business administration is one of these five departments. Next like this. So as we think about these, I wanted to show you a sample freshman you're scheduled for our majors. And so this is true for any of the majors within our department. So marketing management, operations management, international business, or global enterprise management. But I will tell you this is basically 98% true. Also for accounting, for finance. For management information systems, there might be a one class difference that we might make an adjustment if you tell us what you're interested in. But in reality, most students their freshman year take a very similar schedule. You take to submit two semesters of economic. So you take some breadth courses that might include language. You might take a psychology class. If you're had an AP credits, maybe you'll take management class. And like I said, everybody takes that Bua D1, 10 basics of business course, their very first semester, freshman year. And the nice thing about the schedule being so similar is that students can change their mind about a major. As they talked, more upperclassmen as they go to career panels, as they connect with career services in their professors. A student can say, no, I thought I wanted to do marketing. I wanted to management. I want to add analytics as a major or maybe as a minor. And there's a lot of opportunities here for the students to really craft what it is that they're interested in and figured out and they have time to do that. To students. Technically doesn't have to declare their major until October 1st of their sophomore year. And you could change it every week until the anecdote makes you happy. And even after that, there's a lot of opportunities to change your major or add additional majors or minors. Next, like this, a lot of our students complete internship. 94% complete at least one sort of experiential learning component. And there's a lot of different companies that come recruit at UDL, specifically at learner in our department with our students. And like I said, you will see employers every single day. Think there was something like 7 thousand internships posted in our database this year. Just specifically in the UD database, it's called handshake that's run by learner Career Services. So all a student has to do is go to learner Career Services and say, I could use some help, help me search, helped me apply, helped me make sure my resumes up to date and that it looks great and that my LinkedIn profile is solid. And so there's a lot of different career opportunities and internship opportunities. Typically internship opportunities start during sophomore year. Some students wait till junior year and some students in turn after freshman year. And when we get to our student panel, I'll let them sort of share their experiences. Next slide, please outs. I wanted to share a little bit with you about where our students go into what it means to be in these different majors. So this is called success by the numbers and the data from Career Services. The knowledge rate of a college means that will lease, survey our alumni and to figure out where they're going and what kind of job they're doing. On average, 85 percent of our alumni actually respond to our survey, which is actually really high. That means we have data on quite a few of our students, are a few of our alumni to see the kinds of things they do. And I'll show the top employers for management, for marketing, for international business, for operations management. And you could see some of the top employers overlap. So JPMorgan hires quite a few of our students. Yelp hires quite a few of our students. And our job titles vary as well. In management, a lot of people go into project management or HR management actually now has two tracks you can choose within the management major. And you don't have to make that decision. So junior year, you might be more interested in human resources, or you might be more interested in business leadership depending on what it is you want to do. Within marketing, you might be more interested in something that's analytics and really quantitative. And maybe you'll pick up that Business Analytics minor. Or he might be interested in something more creative and she might be interested in advertising or sales were international business as well. Next slide, please, Alex. In operations management, you'll see some similar companies as well. You'll see city and Deloitte operations management is much more technical major. It's probably the most quantitatively oriented major within our department. Students oftentimes go on to be Account Managers are risks in working in risk advisory are different roles within supply chain. And with International Business Studies, There's a whole slew of things that students do, whether they're gobbling to sales or Global Business Services. Some go up into consulting. And the International Business Studies majors, the only one where language is a requirement. So oftentimes students do end up going abroad for a position as well. Next slide, please. And I wanted to introduce the student panel. We have with us for amazing students, all of whom I've had the opportunity to get to know well over their time at UT so far. So if you guys can I'll I'll call you out but unmute yourselves, maybe share where you're from. I'm sure your major, what year you are and what made you come to UD? What is it that made the decision for you? So let's have this Anika. Hi everyone. My name is sonic kilowatts say and I'm from North Wales, Pennsylvania, it's about an hour north of campus outside of Philadelphia. And I'm a sophomore here. And I'm double majoring in operations management and management information systems with a minor in Business Analytics. And just some other things I'm involved in on campus. I'm also a part of the Honors College. I'm a blue hand Ambassador, which is basically like a tour guide on campus. And I'm also on the executive board of Women in Business. I'm really excited to be here checking. Hi everybody. My name's Jackie. I'm a senior marketing and operations management double-major. I'm and I'm a minor in Business Analytics and I'm from South Plainfield, New Jersey on campus. I'm involved with the Honors Program, as well as I'm a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, which is a business fraternity. And in the past I've been a teaching assistant for a marketing research course. Um, and I came to tell her because I wanted a bigger school that had that smaller thiol and I know it sounds corny, but the second I came on campus just outright. And that's why I decided this was the place for me. Thanks. Everyone. My name's Mike, like really Rockland County, New York, which is about 40 minutes outside New York City. I am currently a Finance Operation measures and global enterprise management major, possibly looking at pumping out full PPE about that on the cloth more accurately. And I'm actually in the world college program by platinum after I studied abroad in Rome, Italy for the whole time, not your defender. And next year I'll be studying abroad again, it's part of the program. Probably thinking about going to Australia to do a hybrid program between cooperative relationship that included the fact that ultimately the Honors College, I've been an American host partner. And in that captain, I'm the treasurer and the Wall Street and I both of them in their sport. Awesome. Last but not least, Grace. Hi everyone. I'm Grace. I am currently a senior from Wilmington, Delaware. I major in finance management, information systems marketing, and a minor in French on campus. I'm also in the honors program along with everyone else. And I'm currently the Executive Vice President for women in business. As was the president of Asian awareness in perspective connections magazine, a magazine that focus on the campus experience and Asian-Americans. And I'm also in Delta Sigma Pi, which is a business opportunity on campus similar to Alpha Kappa Psi. And I actually TA, my TA for Julia. This past ball for beauty one time. Awesome. I'm going to throw out questions and you guys remember once you can just take them and very casually just pop into the conversation. How did you guys choose your major says, I know all of you have some combination of majors, minors, and power. You've Terry functioning with multiple majors and minors. I guess I'd read ocher though i birth actually came into the management later. And I was lucky enough to have Julia as my professor for VOA deal with them. And I loved that class because it's part of it is helping you decide what you want to major in. And from that point on it, as I went through that classroom, not sure, I kinda decided that I really liked Finance, Operations Management. And then as my interests progress and I travel, I knew that global enterprise management had to be added and I was lucky enough to be chaotic, I go apply incorporated within. But I also took a winner class to UT. But it's very easy. There's a lot of overlap with the majors to kind of double-major and triple major. But generally that BYD class really helped me pick out what I wanted to do and find my interest generally. So similar to Michael. I am also a sophomore but I also Julia as my professor for BYUI do in town and she's also actually one of my academic advisors. And I came out as a marketing major. And honestly, I think I've gone through like at least half of the majors. I've changed my major so many times that finally settled on management, information systems and operations management. And obviously a theory do you want 10 really helped me just understand what all of the majors are. And another thing that just really helped is the fact that we have a core business program. So you do have to take certain classes on the introductory level for finance, marketing, operations, all of those different things. And I think those classes just really helped me get exposure to all of the different majors and actually understanding what you're learning. And I'm just doing on a day-to-day basis. Yeah, I think might go in Sonic of both touched on really important points, pitches. Because we have so many majors, it's very easy to get a little bit overwhelmed, but there is a core curriculum and ambiguity. One tennis ball and you also learn about the different kinds of majors and you have a lumped, I give you some insight on what the career pathway look like. So for my particular major management information systems, I didn't actually know what that was until I came to UT. And then once they started showing us videos about how it's lot, a lot about data management, database databases and things like that. I realized that it's something that I am interested in, so it's totally fine, not what you want to do when you come in, but you'll have lots of resources to help you figure out what it is that you want to do in the future? Yeah. I guess just to finish up, when I was in BOD POD 110 with Julia, I personally thought that I would not add on another major, maybe a minor, but I was very content with having one major. But then as I started taking those intro courses, I realized that I was interested in stuff that I didn't even realize I would be. I just started adding on stuff as I went and it was only last year, my junior year that I ended up adding an operations major. And that was after I took that intro course and just really fell in love with it. So it's never too late to add something. Even if you think that you're just going to be one major. But yeah, don't close yourself off because you never know what classes you're going to like memory chips. And they actually thought that we're getting lots of questions in chat, so I'm going to start throwing them out. Somebody asked me. Yes. Can you elaborate or somewhere else? Hours per gram or UHD student, Mike, I'll do want to take that one. Yes. So I am a full-time student, the verb Scholars Program, and that's a program that's run through our Study Abroad team or the Center for Global Programs here at UT. And basically what it is that you apply Azure as you get into Delaware and basically what it is, you study abroad twice. So your freshmen fall, you would be studying abroad in a location of four. So there's Madrid, Spain, Rome, Italy, Athens, Greece, where alchemy, David, kinda cool because they kind of go with you to that location, helped me Evelyn. And you study abroad. Then when you come back, you'd be living in the International House where I'm currently staying now on campus. And then that third or your third year, you're doing a year, you'd be studying abroad again at afraid of your choosing. The whole idea of the program. If it exclusive program you apply, you intervene before you get to import. And it helps you become, I get acclimatized to studying abroad and becoming what they term at the global fit. If you more acceptable to culture, culture shock and you like to be immersed in other cultures and learn about other cultures. So it's a really good experience if you like traveling like I do. And also if you plan on maybe working abroad in the future where you then want to study abroad. It's very good program for kind of finding people like minded. Awesome. Thanks. I'll start the next question. And you just doesn't apply to anybody. I'm sure you have tons of friends that are in this situation because about a third of our students, this isn't declared. Our students to comment as undeclared, missing any of the community aspect of being a major in a specific major for freshmen, yeah. You may want to take that. So I personally didn't come in business undeclared, but I do know somebody who came in to just completely undeclared. They didn't really know what they wanted to do. And now they are a business analytics major and I think they also have another major. But they just kind of started taking classes that maybe thought were interesting, but we're still going to fulfill the requirements so they could graduate on time. And I know I've sat in on a panel with him and he feels like he's always had a really great experience at UT. He really felt like he didn't really feel like he missed out on anything much during that first year. And he could kind of catch up on those first-year experiences by sitting in on differently people, events with employers or I know he's in a business fraternity. All those kind of things really do help serve building that community to pick feel. I'm actually going to build on that quickly. One of the things that I didn't mentioned about Bua D1 10 is that we make students attend all sorts of events regardless of what your major and as the ideas that I call gentle nudges is what I tell my students this says, but basically I forced you to attend to all sorts of events and join all sorts of clubs. So go sit in on investment club meeting or learn about forensic accounting from the panel that's there. Or listen to a local entrepreneur tropics, the entrepreneurship club, or there's a hospitality. The founder of dog for Chuck Berry is going to come speak to the hospitality class, go join in on that. And we have over a 100 events that happen every semester. And so part of your grade is just attending, I want you to attend. So I think actually business and declared is really cool because now you're open to all these different kinds of opportunities. And I always encourage even students who have a single major who came in like Jackie to say, consider other options. Also sort of figure out what kind of skill set you want to build grace. You're going to answer. Yeah, I was just going to say when I was a TA for that beauty 110 class, I would say actually the majority of students where business undeclared coming into the class. So you actually do your own community, I guess that people who also don't really know what they want to major in or what career path they want to take. So it's nice because then you can all sort of discuss together and then hopefully find something that you guys are passionate about. One thing I just wanted to differentiate and we have actually, There's just to make sure and I think there is undecided at UD, totally undecided students, and then there's businesses, undeclared business undeclared students or students who are already admitted to the learner college that you're visiting with us today and you think you're interested in, unfortunately in the Lerner College and you want to be business major, you should be applying into the Lerner College. So you want to beat business undeclared rather than university undecided. If your university undecided, then you would have to later apply into the learner college. But if you're Lerner College, Business undeclared or you're already in the learner college, you're guaranteed basically into any major you want, at least until October 1st of your sophomore year. And there's a few little quirks, but basically it's very easy to then switch up or add your major. Another question in the chat is, do you have a favorite business class? You've taken anatomy, you guys are like SAP lady one time because you're all my students. So what's your favorite business class so far and why? So I forgot the course code. There was barely like for 73 or something, but it was consumer behavior. And so that was kinda focusing on a little bit as that the psychology behind marketing and why consumers purchase and their habits and behaviors. And that was just a fascinating place to me. It's part of the reason why I chose marketing as my major was because I loved that, that aspect of it. And yeah, it's just really cool. Incorporate some real life examples. So you get to CIA and you kinda get to see how you've been includes in the past. And it really changes your mindset for how you see advertisements in the feature. So I loved them. Awesome to jump in on that one. So I had two favorite classes last semester. I took both BYUI D30 wine and 30 sex. So 30 one is the intro to marketing class and for U6 is Intro to operations management. I did like 30 one just because I had a lot of friends in it from classes before. A lot of them were actually in my B reg1 cos 110 class as well. But it made me realize that I didn't really like marketing and I didn't want to major in it. So definitely was helpful quarters not kind of where 30 and 30 6 stepped in. Since that was that intro to I'm cores on, my professor was always available to just sit down and talk to me about the different options that I would have being an operations management major by professor actually graduated from UT with an OM and marketing double-major. So she knew a lot just about. I'm kind of the same things I was thinking about career pathways and things like that. So I think those were definitely my favorite business classes. Why don't we skip for just a second because I don't want to touch base. And there's actually two questions that are linked to internships. Are internships guaranteed? When do most students do them and are introduced readily accessible. So I can totally talk about this forever, but I'm going to let you guys do it's why would I want you to share is have you two of you are sophomores, but have you done internships or do you have any plan? And if you are graduating, sort of share your internship experience, maybe what's helped you and maybe what are your plans for post graduation? Yeah, I guess start off and say, internships are definitely not guaranteed, but they are extremely, extremely accessible. And one thing that I loved about just being in learner was that they help you, not just at one which syslog like Handshake and LinkedIn by. They help you with how to search for internships in the most beneficial way. And also the importance of building connections. Because as great as it is that there's opportunities for, in, for interviews. You can interview back to back to back and then end up having an internship based on a personal connection. So I would say my best advice, be really persistent in your search. It doesn't it doesn't matter if you don't completely line up with what the role is, even just interviewing for them would be great experience. So I would say the more experienced it's about are. And as early if you are very nervous about it start earlier. There's no harm in that. But I interned my junior year and I end up accepting a full-time position with them that summer. Bye. Everybody has a different path and there's no rush, but there's definitely, definitely a lot about are opportunities out there. You want to note where are you in turn, are where you are, right? Yes. I interned with Ross Stores Is discount clothing company, but I was a planning analysts intern. And that's going to be what my role is. This coming summer. Awesome. Anybody else want to share? Grace? Yeah. I think Jackie pretty much touched on all the really important points. I would say networking's definitely, I think one of the big, sorry, biggest things that someone should look for in college, because a lot of times people say like colleges, what you make of it. And I think networking is one of those aspects because if you don't really go out there and look for the employers, obviously they're not going to know who you are, but there are a lot of employers who actually just sit in the lobby of pronoun, which is our main Building where we have our business classes and you go up to them, they're very happy to have a conversation with you. They could jot down your contact information and then free know it, you know, you're interviewing for their internship or full-time offer or whatever it is that you need. And that's sort of how I got my sophomore year internship. I went to a networking breakfast with Verizon, which is a company that actually normally doesn't recruit at UT. But that year they were looking for the first time for UT students in particular. And after talking with them, I submitted my resume and immediately got pushed through and I was able to interview right away. I didn't end up going with them for the junior internship. But I think that was just a really particular instance where if you just put yourself out there, most times employers are actually very eager to talk to you and eager to give you an internship opportunities. You want to talk about during your internship for post graduation plans as your senior? Yeah. So for junior year I I intranet Amazon in Seattle for a hybrid internship. And that was just a basic resume drop. I knew some people who worked there and they just they told me a little bit about what the experience was like. That was more of a basic just resume drop and then interview. And then I was a business analyst there. And so I'm going to be going back there full time after graduation. Awesome. Awesome. They're integrated. The internship opportunities, they're not guaranteed. But students who make an effort and go out and talk to career services and connect with employers that come to campus and they're all over coming to campus will have one. So I've never seen a city that really want an internship, but actually like made it at any type of an effort not be able to get mine. Although my next question from the chat, if you find yourself struggling with the course, maybe calculus or something else. I know lots of students struggle with calc and first semester, one of the best places to get help or what are the kinds of places that exist for students to get helpless courses on if you're struggling with calculus. In particular, I know the math department has their own Tutoring Center in Ewing hall. So that's probably the best place to get help with that class that overall there or open tutoring hours for almost like every at least intro class. But a lot of the different classes offered through the business school and just on throughout Lake. The entire university, they have an open tutoring drop-in hours free. You can just go anytime that they're there. They have hours like Monday through Sunday and tons of different on tutors and hours available so you can really find something to fit your schedule. So I found that that's pretty helpful if I just have like a random question about something that maybe like my professor hasn't gotten back to me yet and I just went and get it out of the way. I can just go and hop on this it with them. And I know that's been really helpful. And the Office of Academic Enrichment also has their own Tutoring Center where you can get like one-on-one tutoring group, tutoring, those like free drop-in hours, things like that. Awesome. I think that touched upon that. I'm going to touch upon the next question a little bit about the marketing curriculum, specifically balancing exposure to different kinds of marketing. So even within each major, you have a lot of flexibility. Every major cross learner, lot of students have already mentioned there's a core curriculum. Does it matter if you're marketing or management or operations management, you'll still take accounting and econ, and finance and management information systems. You'll, I'll take all these classes. There are six very specific marketing marketing requirements. Every marketing student takes marketing research, marketing analytics, and marketing strategy, and then students have marketing electives that they could choose from. Advertising, consumer behavior, and entrepreneurial marketing, sales, digital marketing, international marketing, marketing consulting projects. There's a whole slew of courses. And marketing students really tailor the other three of their marketing electives to whatever it is that they're interested in. So if they're interested in something more quantitative or more digital, they want to do something that's more advertising relating versus, you know, Jackie said maybe you want to take that consumer behavior class and learn about how psychology informs marketing. Or maybe you want to work with a group and work on client consulting projects and then you might take the marketing projects course. The other thing I wanted to touch base on just briefly, based on a chat question is the difference between management and operations management? And I would say within our department, management is the least quantitative major, AND operation management is the most quantitative major. Management itself, There's two different tracks. So there's human resources in business leadership to take courses depending on what you're interested in, either in different kinds of topics related to human resources or different topics related to business leadership regardless and management. He also taken negotiations class, and then you have three electives to choose from. You could do a small business management class, you could do a management consulting, you could take a global business management class. You could take a business ethics class and groups and teams course, depending on what it is that's interesting to you. With operations management, your course has a lot more quantitative. You learn more about inventory and supply chain and predictive abilities. And maybe some other students wanna join in the conversation. For those who are management or operations management, what are your courses like? So I'm an OH, or operations management major. And I mentioned before that I took my intro class last semester. So right now I'm in the second class and it's mostly operations management majors as well. So I think that's nice just being around other people who want to keep studying the same thing that I'm studying. It's an analytical decision making. So a lot of it involves math and just kind of figuring out what the best decision to make is. It's like not the best way of describing it, but it definitely is a lot more analytical. And I guess it's a quantitative that some of the other classes that I've taken. But I know that's something that I was really interested in when I was trying to find what I wanted to study. I haven't taken a management class yet, so I can't really speak to that, but that's kinda what I think. If you think about like a very basic example, I'll just give you guys that I sometimes get my freshmen. If I'm Starbucks, I could make the decisions related to management kinds of people or a higher, how do I motivate them? How much do we ultimately pay that? And versus operations management is where do I get my coffee? Where do I get my cups? How frequently should I be ordering coffee cups? What should the layout of my store look like? What hours should our Starbucks be open? So all these kinds of decisions, um, and this is why I think taking that course really important for being a business student as if doesn't matter if you're marketing major or an operations management major, or a management or a finance, you have to understand how each of these disciplines function because they all work together. This one I'm going to totally gets to the students a question for Brian. What sort of things are there to do in or around and no arc. What kind of things do you guys do? I get started. I would say one of the main things that drew me to this school was Main Street. I just, I love walking down Main Street. I think it's great that it's central to pretty much anywhere that you live. And it has almost like all of my favorite places to eat and there's one of my favorite things today are just canine is there's a karaoke like a karaoke kind of place that opened, not right nearby. And once it open, everyone was really excited. I just use like a fun new thing and it's become like a pretty regular event that we all just we all go and we book around and it's so fun. And yeah, I love karaoke and so yeah, I know. Ud also puts on like a bunch of fun events for students as well. So I know da Carlo is coming actually next next month, April 20th. So we're really excited about that. And then they'll have like other performers when you're Pete Davidson came. So if you're interested in those things, you can definitely sign up. Tickets are super cheap compared to if you were going to go to like a regular concert. So yeah, definitely lookout for those types of runs. I think freshman year, your RA's, your residential advisors, those on your floor, It's probably throw tons of events at you and tons of things to do all around new work and things that are happening and things that they're excited to get you to go to. One thing to keep in mind. Newark also has a step the stations up because the southeast Pennsylvania train line, you can easily get to Wilmington or Philly for a day trip as well. They're all really close. Is the campus easy to get around and how hard is it to get your dorm or apartment from the business building or is it a different campus? He wants to grab that. Go. Actually, I think it'll be really easy to get around. I'm actually currently technically on North Campus where I hope. And they're going to Nicol different campuses, but they're not far apart. So for me to get to the main buildings or learner point about a 15 minute walk. So it's really not bad at all. If you don't like walking. There's always the bucket. I'm a media. The three buckets that you can use to get around campus really easily, could not hard at all. There's a question that asks for the marketing kind of questions. Do we also do? We do public relations within the courses, especially within the digital marketing course, there is no major specifically for PR. And actually somebody PR courses, I taught you any communication squash through the communications curriculum. One of the clubs that many of our marketing students join is pure SSH, the Public Relations Society of America, into a Data whole slew of majors because that's, I think the neat part of UD are lots of schools really is that you can drink clubs regardless of your major. So a lot of our marketing students who are interested in PR will join PRS is say, and they have all sorts of panels and opportunities as part of that club as well for that specific niche within marketing. Some business schools are geared more towards graduate students, Gavin ask versus undergraduates, what's learner school like? I have mine opinions, but I will let you guys take it whoever wants to. Since you're all undergrads. So I think it's definitely undergraduate. Wierd. I so I know they mentioned before that we are very much the undergraduate school. We have about, I think, 20 thousand undergraduate students and 4 thousand graduate students. And that kinda translates over into the business school as well. There's a lot more Grad undergraduate students and graduate students. And I personally know that my sister, she goes to a school where it's not that much of the difference. There are a lot more graduate students compared to what we have. And I kinda see how her classes are taught. Her professors are and compare them to mine. And I think one thing that I have really noticed and I've really enjoy is that a lot of my professors are most my professors. I think only teach undergraduate classes. Or they may be only teach one or two graduate classes. So you know that they're here to actually teach undergraduate students. They're not here because they want to teach graduate students and they just have to teach like one or two undergrad classes. Or because they want to do something else. They're here because they want to teach undergraduate students specifically. So I think that's been something that I really enjoy about the school just because I don't feel like my professor there because they have to be kinda go off of what you with a, I also think that by taking your, your classes that are on your schedule pillar, although provide you with skills to then used in the workplace. So I think it's really big on you take off that, that is public speaking or even pig management information that we're learning Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, felt like that. And you're going to be using the skills in the workplace. So it's not just, okay, I'm going to need introductory classes. You're going into my main classes for my major or majors. By bulk of building the skills you're going to be using. And I actually know my sister go through a tool in New York and he didn't have to take a management information that is related to Microsoft off here a dollar you're required to pick. It could be something that you're going to be using in the workplace. I mean, I think I'm going to build on that just a little bit. I think our faculty actually have a choice. I prefer. I've taught graduate students in the past and I really love the undergrads. I personally love the freshmen, and I love working with freshmen students. That's my true repressions. The faculty have a lot of choices of the kinds of classes we want to teach. We have some faculty that really enjoy the graduate students and they teach MBA or Exec MBA programs. But a huge majority of our faculty are very undergraduate student focused. And they really just enjoy getting to know the students. I think that's a big difference is that I'm one of the things that has drawn me to Delaware is the faculties that I can build these kinds of relationships, like these personal kinds of relationships with students that last not only during their time here at UT, but also graduation. There's another question in the chat and we touched upon it a little bit earlier on, but, you know, I think not everybody may be entered it, but what really made you choose you della fino, gotten to other schools. We started making that comparison. What brought you here? I know her though, for me, why UDL is definitely the combination between flexibility among He didn't go as well. I study abroad program that you don't hurt. So when I'm looking at, but we're going to repay, a lot of other school might have their business program, which might include economic in a couple of their major, but not as many as 17 that Lerner College offers. You're a Delaware. And for me to become a world power. And I saw the study abroad program here at Delaware. I kind of fell in love. Ut Study Abroad has been around since 1923. The neck here we're actually going to be celebrating our anniversary year. Studying abroad and putting green all over the world. Though that with all of the programs golf or the fact that you can easily get an internship abroad with one program through it really made me kind of fall in love with the global fitting. Welcome. Anybody else want to touch upon that? I think I'm locals. So when I was looking at colleges, my very gut reaction, first gut reaction was to try and get away as fast as possible because I've lived here all my life and I was like, I definitely don't want to go to college 20 minutes from where I live. But it actually turned out to be, I think, the best decision I made just because it's a very good combination of being a really large campus. So you don't have to feel sort of constricted by the different people. Or maybe you just feel like you're, you know, you see the same people over and over again. There's always someone new you can meet, but the same time your classes are so small that you get to so form the same community and meet so many cool Students who have the same passions as you are, different passions. So I've made so many lifelong friends here at UT and I think the faculty are amazing. They all have amazing experiences that you can definitely learn a lot from. So overarching thing you do is definitely the best value for both pay for and also just my experiences here have been in comparable to that. Anything else I feel like I could have gotten at a different college. All right, The next most important question, PC or Mac, what do we need for dollar? What do you guys use and why? I'm actually very passionate about this question and I am TPC all the way. Before I came to Delaware the summer before my first year, I was talking to a current student and she has she has a Mac. But she told me that I should definitely get a PC. Because for like your MIS classes, especially those intro ones. And you're just going to keep using it later. If you do become an MIS major or minor or anything, you have to do something called Virtual Lab, which is like a lot of just extra steps. So I definitely say PC on because I know for my marketing class me to run on something for like marketing research, for data scraping. And I was the one which you run it because the other two people, my group had Macs and it just wouldn't work on their computers. They were just like shut down. So I'm TPC or anywhere else in PC or Mac? Yeah, I'm actually, I've had a Mac all throughout college and so I can wholeheartedly say TPC. It's definitely doable though they don't, don't forgot like doing like you need to get a new laptop. I saw this thing, it's carried me through by it does get challenging. You're going to spend a lot of your time cleaning out your storage. I know exactly how many gigabytes I have at anytime. So just gets tough, buy it. You can really use either. Awesome. Alex, can you share the screen again? Dimensions can bring it up close. And Admiral Sam, There's lots of opportunities to ask our panelists questions if you have more questions. But I can direct future absolutely any of them. So I wanted to hear a couple of email addresses for professor ever ard for learner advising in general. I'm feeling the advising questions for general learner questions or admissions. But I also just wanted to put up my own email and my cell phone number. Feel free to text me and feel free to call me. Feel free to email me if you have any kind of questions, if you want to connect with any panelists in particular, I didn't actually put their e-mail addresses here, but just shoot me an email and I'm happy to connect you with any of them. If you're interested in a major or something else, when you want to learn about something else, send me an email if I can't answer your question, I'm sure I can connect you with someone who can. And I think that's just part of the nice thing about a school like Delaware is that, you know, that you can make these kinds of connections, like I said, with upperclassmen, with faculty, with current students, with alumni, because our alumni love to get back and really look to pitch. And so it's a big school with lots of opportunities, but really you find your own little niche. And for most of our students will site, it's a wonderful niche. So Alps. Yeah, Thank you all very much. I just have to say what a wonderful session about was. I'm just, you know what a really great opportunity to learn more about our business administration majors. I do wanna remind everyone that still here with us this evening that tonight's session as part of our learner virtual major discovery sessions. So we do have our final session tomorrow evening around accounting and business analytics embedded to the information systems. So the mental functions similarly to tonight's session, just focus on those specific majors. So if you are one of those students that are still exploring what majors right for you, it may be great to also get that, that session, a quick join. And then if you haven't had the opportunity to visit us in person yet, we definitely recommend that you take the opportunity to come visit us on campus. Today was one of the first really nice person days that we've had so far in already I had to, so looking forward to getting back outdoors on our campus. But I'm Saturday April night and Saturday, April 23rd, our upcoming decision days, which is our campus open house, which will give me the opportunity to, again hear from students, visit our door on campus itself and in-person in all its glory. So definitely want to make sure that you join us if you haven't already. So on that note, I do want to thank you for joining us this evening and taking some time out of your evening to join us. So if you do have any other questions at all, please feel free to reach out to us at any time. And we are more than happy to help get you an answer.
Lerner Virtual Visit 3.22.2022
From Kimberly Ragan March 24, 2022
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