BUA 4310 - Directed Honors Research Investigation in Business

Credits: 3 hrs

This senior-level course is intended for students accepted to the Business Honors Program. Accepted students will complete a minimum of 50 hours of mentored original research with a faculty member. During these 50 hours, students will become more familiar with the faculty member’s research. Upon completion of this course, students will have developed a hypothesis, orally presented this hypothesis to the business faculty, and either obtained IRB approval or receive an IRB exemption for a thesis completed the following semester. This course is designed to help students navigate through the scientific resaerch process. Specific emphasis will be placed on how a business scholar asks questions and develops a hypothesis using appropriate literature and data, as well as developing appropriate statistical models to test this hypothesis.
Pre-requisite(s): Admission to the Business Honors Program