About the International 
Business (IB) Web Site
(last modified 8/7/98)
Content
The Gannon International Business Web site consists of three main parts,
each of which is briefly described as follows:
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The first part, "Trends in International Business," describes the growth
in international business activity that has taken place in the world and
in the US within the last 25 years and the predicted continued growth of
such activities in the future, and provides explanations for this growth.
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Part II, "Job Opportunities in International Business," considers the effect
of increased international business activity for job opportunities
in the international area and describes opportunities that exist with multinational
corporations, small and medium sized businesses, as well as other organizations.
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The third part of the Web site provides information on the curriculum,
features, assessment and news of the "Gannon International Business (IB)
Program," which was instituted in Fall, 1995, to meet the growing demand
for individuals who are properly educated and trained in the area of international
business.
Design Philosophy
The site was designed to be navigated quickly and provide information in
a manner that is easy to find. Thus, the index contained on the home
page is quite extensive and includes sub headings when it is determined
that they may be useful to the visitor interested in researching a particular
topic but who may not know under which particular heading it corresponds.
It is very unlikely that the site will win any design awards, but hopefully
it presents information effectively.
Uses
While this site is intended for use primarily by IB majors, serving as
a sort of a Handbook, and by prospective students who may be seeking additional
information on the program, it may also prove helpful to other Gannon students,
faculty, administrators, Admissions personnel, alumnus, members of the
IB Advisory Council, the local international business community as well
as to others.
Prospective students who are interested in obtaining an overview of
the program are invited to view the IB
Program Fact Sheet .
Many of the pages on this Web site also represents the results of a
plan that was developed
in Fall, 1995, to implement the IB program.
Future plans
Future plans for this site include the following:
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make the site more visually exciting
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hypertext linking of courses contained in the curriculum to catalog descriptions
and eventually course syllabi
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when Adobe Acrobat becomes available, posting additional pages containing
forms and other documents not generated by a computer software program,
in PDF
Future pages are planned for the following topics:
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program director’s travel advice
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program director’s travel photos
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information on graduate programs in international business
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outcomes assessment process
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information specific for incoming freshman IB majors
Updates/revisions
The material related to the curriculum is intended to be updated each summer
following the publication of the Gannon Undergraduate Catalog. Other
material will be revised and updated as needed and posted during breaks
in the academic year. The top of each page indicates the date of
the latest modification. The LISTSERV
to which all IB majors are subscribed will be used to provide them with
important information between revisions.
The visitor is invited back to see what may be new.
How to use this
Web site
To obtain information on a topic of interest the visitor navigates through
the index on the home page and left double clicks on the hypertext link
corresponding to that topic which should take the visitor to another page
on the IB Web site. The bottom of each of the other pages contains
the following hypertext link: "Click here to return to the
IB program home page."
Click here to return
to the Gannon IB Fact Sheet
Click here to return to the
Gannon IB program home page
If you have comments or suggestions, email
mahan@gannon.edu