Undergraduate Concentration Requirements for AEM

Concentrations within Dyson

Notes about the concentrations:

AEM majors must choose at least one of the following eleven concentrations by the beginning of their junior year, and may choose no more than two
No more than one course may fulfill the elective credits of two concentrations.
Courses used to fulfill a core Applied Economics or Quantitative Methods requirement cannot also count towards a concentration requirement except in EERE
One class from the core requirements may be taken for a S/U grade
NO S/U grades will be accepted in a declared concentration, unless a class is offered S/U only
All course petitions or substitutions are managed through the Dyson Office of Student Services in consultation with a committee of faculty from each concentration

To learn more about each course, click on Cornell’s Courses of Study. All courses are 3 credit hours unless noted otherwise.

All courses and requirements are subject to change. Refer to the Dyson Office of Student Services for up-to-date information.

Accounting

AEM 3360: Corporate Financial Reporting I (Required)
AEM 3370: Corporate Financial Reporting II (4) (Required)

9 credits from list below:

AEM 3520: Financial Statements Analysis
AEM 4225: Systems and Analytics in Accounting
AEM 4520: Advanced Accounting
AEM 4521: Cost Accounting
AEM 4530: Auditing & Assurance
AEM 4531: Federal Income Taxation
AEM 4532: Fraud Examination
AEM 4533: Federal Income Taxation of Low Income Taxpayers (2)
AEM 4534: Real Estate Tax
AEM 4535: Financial Mgmt. of Not-For-Profit
AEM 4560: Federal Income Taxation of Business Entities, Estates, & Trusts
NBA 5090: Adv. Financial Statement Analysis (1.5)
NBA 5110: Financial Modeling (1.5)

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Agribusiness Management

AEM 3020: Farm Business Mgmt. (4) (Required)
HADM 2810 or ILRHR 2600: Human Resource Management (Required)

9 credits from the list below

AEM 3040: Dairy Markets & Policy Seminar
AEM 3260: Cooperative Business Management
AEM 3290: International Agribusiness Study Trip (2)
AEM 4030: Farm Mgmt. Study Trip (1)
AEM 4050: Farm Credit Fellows – Agricultural Lending (1)
AEM 4070: Advanced Financial Analytics
AEM 4150: Price Analysis
AEM 4210: Futures, Options & Financial Derivatives
AEM 4310: Agricultural & Food Policy
AEM 4510: Environmental Economics
AEM 4560: Federal Income Taxation of Business Entities, Estates, & Trusts

Applied Economics and Management

ECON 3040: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (4) (Required)
Note: ECON 3020 can replace ECON 1120 & ECON 3040
At least 12 credits listed under Applied Economics (Required)
At least 3 credits listed under Quantitative Methods (Required)
Must be courses that have not already been used to fulfill AEM Core Requirements. (Required)
MATH 1120 is strongly recommended, especially as preparation for graduate work in economics.

Business Analytics

AEM 3100: Business Statistics OR AEM 4110: Intro. to Econometrics (4) (Required)
AEM 2830: VBA for Business Analytics OR AEM 2840 Python for Business Analytics OR CS 1112: Intro.to Computing Using MATLAB (4) (Required)
AEM 2820: Intro to Database Management Systems OR CSS/PLSCS 4200: Geographic Information Systems (Required)

6 credits from the list below

AEM 2770: Excursions in Computational Sustainability
AEM 3030: Explorations in Analytical Modeling (1.5)
AEM 4010: Organizational Analytics (1.5)
AEM 4015: Customer Strategy & Analytics (1.5)
AEM 4060: Risk Simulation & Monte Carlo Methods
AEM 4120: Computational Methods for Management & Economics
AEM 4225: Systems and Analytics in Accounting
AEM 4435: Data-Driven Marketing (1.5)
AEM 4610: Business Processes, Analytics, & Enterprise Systems (1.5)
AEM 4620: Adv. Financial Modeling & Analysis (2)
STSCI 4060: Python Programming & Its Applications in Statistics

Entrepreneurship

Complete 15 credits from the list with at least 6 credits from AEM

AEM 1220: Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences (1)
AEM 2220: Foundational Perspectives & Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship
AEM 3110: Design & Innovation
AEM 3220: Digital Business Strategy
AEM 3245: Organizational Behavior
AEM 3249: Entrepreneurial Marketing & Strategy
AEM 3250: Bus. Planning Process for New Ventures (4)
AEM 3251: The Business Laboratory & New Venture Mgmt. (4)
AEM 3340: Women, Leadership, & Entrepreneurship (1)
AEM 3380: Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators, & Solvers (4)
AEM 4080: Innovation & New Product Mgt. (1.5)
AEM 4370: Strategy & Innovation
AEM 4371: Case Studies in Innovation (1.5)
AEM 4380: Entrepreneurial Strategy for Technology Ventures (1.5)
AEM 4390: Technology Strategy (1.5)
AEM 4420: Emerging Markets
AEM 4615: Platform Strategy
HADM 4130: Entrepreneurial Mgmt.
HADM 4211: Entrepreneurial Finance
NBA 3000: Entrepreneur and Private Equity
NBA 6230: Actualizing Your Startup-Part 1 (1.5)

Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics

ECON 3030: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (4) (Required)
ECON 3040: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (4) (Required)
AEM 2500: Environmental & Resources Economics (Required)

6 credits from the list below

AEM 4500: Resource Economics
AEM 4510: Environmental Economics
AEM 4515: Business and Economics of Energy

3 credits from the list below

AEM 3100: Business Statistics
AEM 4110: Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 3120: Applied Econometrics
ECON 3140: Econometrics
ILRST 2110: Statistical Methods for Social Sciences II
HADM 3740: Fundamentals of Database Mgmt. & Data Analysis
PLSCS 4200: Geographic Information Systems
STSCI 4060: Python Programming & Its Applications in Statistics
HADM 4010: Data-Driven Analysis
Minimum 3 credits of EERE-related electives offered from: BIOEE, BEE, CRP, EAS, GOVT, NTRES, DSOC (Can also use AEM 2110) (Required)

Finance

AEM 4570: Corporate Finance (Required)
AEM 4670: Investments (Required)
AEM 3520: Financial Statements Analysis OR AEM 3360: Corporate Financial Reporting I (Required)

6 credits from the list below

AEM 4060: Risk Simulation & Monte Carlo Methods
AEM 4210: Futures, Options, & Financial Derivatives
AEM 4230: Contemporary Topics in Behavioral Finance
AEM 4260: Fixed Income Securities
AEM 4280: Valuation of Capital Investment (4)
AEM 4290: International Financial Management
AEM 4590: Financial Markets & Institutions
AEM 4620: Advanced Financial Modeling & Analysis (2)
AEM 4630: Asset Pricing & Management AEM 4680: Quantitative Equity Investing (2)
AEM 4681: Impact Finance (4)

Food Industry Management

AEM 2480: Food and Consumer Packaged Goods Industry Dynamics (Required)
AEM 3440 or HADM 3470: Consumer Behavior (Required)
AEM 4400: Retail Strategy (Required)

6 credits from the list below

AEM 3270: Supply Chain Strategy/Supermarket Simulation
AEM 4150: Price Analysis
AEM 4460: Food Marketing Colloquium (1)

International Trade and Development

AEM 2300: International Trade and Finance OR AEM 2350: Introduction to the Economics of Development (Required)

12 credits from list below

AEM 2110: The Business of Biofuels (1.5)
AEM 4290: International Financial Management
AEM 4300: International Trade Policy
AEM 4350: The Political Economy of the WTO
AEM 4420: Emerging Markets
AEM 4421: Research & Strategy in Emerging Markets
AEM 4450: Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries
AEM 4485: Economics of Food & Malnutrition
AEM 4545: International Finance & Macroeconomics
AEM 4640: Economics of Agricultural Development

Marketing

AEM 3440 OR HADM 3470: Consumer Behavior (Required)
AEM 4410: Marketing Research (Required)

9 credits from the list below

AEM 3245: Organizational Behavior
AEM 3249: Entrepreneurial Marketing & Strategy
AEM 3270: Supply Chain Strategy/Supermarket Simulation
AEM 4015: Customer Strategy & Analytics (1.5)
AEM 4080: Innovation & New Product Management (1.5)
AEM 4095: Digital Marketing
AEM 4150: Price Analysis
AEM 4160: Strategic Pricing
AEM 4400: Retail Strategy
AEM 4420: Emerging Markets
AEM 4435: Data-Driven Marketing (1.5)
AEM 4495: Consumer Neuroscience
AEM 4550: Economics of Advertising

Strategy

6 credits from the list below

AEM 3220: Digital Business Strategy
AEM 4160: Strategic Pricing
AEM 4190: Strategic Thinking
AEM 4371: Case Studies in Innovation (1.5)
AEM 4380: Entrepreneurial Strategy for Technology Ventures (1.5)
AEM 4390: Technology Strategy (1.5)
AEM 4615: Digital Platform Strategy

9 credits from the list below

AEM 3110: Design & Innovation
AEM 3245: Organizational Behavior
AEM 3260: Cooperative Business Management
AEM 3249: Entrepreneurial Marketing & Strategy
AEM 3320: Leadership and Management in Sports
AEM 4010: Organizational Analytics (1.5)
AEM 4015: Customer Strategy and Analytics (1.5)
AEM 4080: Innovation & New Product Mgt. (1.5)
AEM 4580: The Economics & Psychology of Sustainable Business
AEM 4421: Research & Strategy in Emerging Markets

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Zach Leighton

Hometown

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Concentrations

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What Makes Dyson Special?

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Internships and Work Experiences

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