Intercultural Studies for Business 
The major in Intercultural Studies for Business (ISB) offers five tracks of study: Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and ISB-Culture. The opportunities of the new millennium encourage us to build a unified, synergistic structure that will be a model for combining traditional liberal arts education in languages, literature, history and culture with preparation for the management of organizations. The major is offered cooperatively through the Department of Accounting and Finance and the Department of Foreign Languages. All students in this major must study abroad for at least one full semester and all students are expected to participate in oral and writing proficiency examinations administered by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Additionally, students are asked to participate in college-sponsored evaluation processes including the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Collegiate Learning Assessment.
A major in Intercultural Studies for Business encourages students to pursue lives of leadership, service and influence in cultural, political, and economic venues. Students majoring in ISB may not also major in accounting, finance, or business economics, and may not also minor in business; nor may they major in a foreign language chosen for this program's language track.
Recent Graduates: Over the past five years, ISB majors have entered the workplace with Roche Pharmaceuticals in Paris, France, the South Financial Group in Greenville, SC, and Gallo Wines in Charlotte, NC. Others have gone on to graduate study at Middlebury College, VT, Stetson University Law School, and the International Master of Business Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia SC. Three Wofford ISB graduates have also completed the joint MBA/JD Program at USC-Columbia.
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Tommy Weber is a junior who is studying abroad. He says, “I am taking a class here called "Proyección Social" (Community Outreach) with CIEE in Lima, Peru. Every Thursday morning, the class boards a bus for San Juan de Lurigancho, a marginal impoverished area of Lima. In this course, we become advisors to micro-entrepreneurs who work in this community. I am in a group with 2 other students, and the businessman we are assisting is a carpenter. We hope to help him in the organization of his firm, as well as his business and marketing plans. The shop itself is very disorganized, and his marketing plans rely simply by word of mouth. He also does not keep any accounting records, adding to the disorganization. So far, the experience has been great. I have the ability to have a first-hand contact with the informal economy of a developing country. I am starting to realize the importance of these micro-businesses as they make up the majority of Peru´s economy.” |
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A 2001 graudate of Wofford, Jilvonnie Littlejohn is a Senior Accountant of Mexican Operations for World Acceptance Corporation in Greenville, South Carolina. Jil holds a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Studies for Business from Wofford College and a Masters in Business Administration from Webster University. As an undergraduate student at Wofford, she spent one year at the Universidad de Sevilla in Seville, Spain, where she studied, among other things, cross-cultural communications, translation, and conversation. Jil is fluent in Spanish and also speaks basic Japanese.
Jil is actively involved with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Greenville Chamber of Commerce affiliate PULSE, the American Red Cross, United Way Young Philanthropists, HOPE worldwide, the Greenville Forward Diversity Task Force, and the Greenville Forward Young Professional Task Force. |