Professor Athena Miklos received her bachelor's degree in Marketing from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She earned her Masters's degree from UMUC in International Business with an emphasis in International Commerce. Professor Miklos began developing and teaching distance learning courses in 1983 for Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio and since 1987 developed and taught courses at the College of Southern Maryland. Recently she contracted with Irwin McGraw-Hill to review an introductory business textbook that will be published in Fall 2001. She specializes in international strategic planning and does country research and analysis.
Students examine business in the United States as a social institution.
Topics include economic systems, legal factors, government regulations, forms of ownership, management, employee relations, finance, accounting, and marketing. There is an orientation letter as well as a La Plata Campus orientation. Instructor has optional office houres. These vary each semester based on the instructor's academic schedule.