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Business & Economics

Business & Economics students learn a wide array of concepts with clear real-world applications, from the basics of writing a business plan, to the study of economics, the social impact of business, and entrepreneurship.

Overview

While exploring the different aspects of business—how it works, and how to run a successful business—students participate in projects and exercises that encourage socially-minded entrepreneurship, translating into daily life skills and successful habits.

In the Business & Economics pathway, students not only learn the basics of business but create pitch-decks and present full business proposals.

Coursework that works

ONE

Exploring Business Economics

This course will serve as a fun and engaging introduction to the world of business. While exploring what business is, how it works, and how to run a successful business, students will participate in projects and exercises to encourage socially-minded entrepreneurship that translates into daily life skills and successful habits.

TWO

Exploring Microeconomics

This is a fundamental introductory course into the study of microeconomics, the part of economics concerned with single factors and the effects of individual decisions. No prior economics knowledge is necessary, but students should be comfortable reading basic graphs and doing simple arithmetic.

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Education

Doctoral study in Human Development and
Psychology – Harvard University
M.A. Applied Child Development – Tufts University
B.A. Anthropology – Boston University

Martha Crowe

Master Consultant & Instructor

Martha Crowe has worked with, for, and on behalf of youth for three decades, as a social worker, child advocate, nonprofit director, consultant, and for the past eight years, as a professor, researcher, and medical writer at SDSU. Helping people tell their stories has been at the heart of each phase of her career. Martha loves getting to know young people — to hear about what they care about, what they are good at, and what their dreams are for their futures. And magic can happen when they trust her enough to help them tell their stories in an authentic and compelling way that both honors who they are and convinces admissions counselors to accept them.

Martha believes in taking a personalized approach with each student, tailoring her time with them based on their individual writing skills and learning needs. Her approach is always based on genuine care and concern combined with concrete action items and deadlines. For the past four years, Martha has helped students get into a variety of colleges, as well as honors programs within those colleges, from tiny to huge, rural to urban, California to the East Coast: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, Northeastern, UMass Amherst, University of Michigan, Syracuse, Macalester, Santa Clara University, Pepperdine, University of San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Cal Lutheran, Cal Arts, Claremont McKenna Colleges, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, among others.

Martha grew up in Kansas City and joyfully left for Boston after high school, attending Boston University, Tufts, and Harvard for undergraduate and graduate school. She moved to SoCal in 2004 to spend time with her brother after graduation, and like so many others, forgot to leave. Most importantly, she’s a mom to three kids, who are, at the time of this writing, 18, 16, and 12, and an auntie to 58 nieces and nephews (true story) and too many great nieces and nephews to count. In her spare time, Martha volunteers with High Tech High, Miracle League, and Meals on Wheels, is an avid reader, and loves hanging out with her kids.