Class sections are relatively small with 65 to 70 students. Each student is assigned to a study group of five or six people with diverse work experiences, interests and backgrounds, who work on team projects, discuss cases, solve problems and support each other. Keeping students in internationally diverse teams for the entire first year creates cross-national teams that learn to work together, just as global teams function in today's corporate world. Teamwork is a critical element for success in our Program, and it is a skill that recruiters value in its graduates. ASW offers courses in accounting, microeconomics, statistics, and finance in June and July.
Distance learning is an option for all but the finance course.
Computer skills classes, including spreadsheet analysis, are offered as well. The redesign focused on strategic areas and aligned the curriculum and placement around them. The results are Concentrations, carefully planned sequences of elective courses that provide in-depth learning in important areas during the second year of study. Students may choose from Career Concentrations, which lead to a particular career, and Enrichment Concentrations, which serve a similar purpose for areas of expertise that cut across different career paths. Students also may design their own Concentration from a range of elective courses.