Business Administration, B.S.                         

A primary objective of the program is to integrate professional courses in management within a strong liberal arts foundation. Managers must not only have business skills, but they must be knowledgeable of the broader environment that encompasses the social, technical and ethical fabric of modern society.  The program, therefore, offers students a sense of perspective about the responsibilities of business and government to society.

A.

General Education (52 sh total)
Students must take ECON101 Principles of Economics to meet the general education Political Science/Economics requirement since it is a prerequisite for the Major Core Requirement course ECON310 (or ECON315).

 

B.

Major Core Requirements (42 sh total)

 

 

  ACCT110 Financial Accounting

3 sh

 

  ACCT115 Management Accounting

3 sh

 

  CISC150 Introduction to Computers

  3 sh

 

  ENGL345 Business Writing OR
     ACCT200 Effective Writing for Accounting and Finance OR ENGL360 Technical Writing            OR SPCH320 Business Communication

  3 sh

 

  MATH107 Basic Statistics I OR 
     MATH312 Probability and Statistics

3 sh

 

  CISC250 Advanced Microcomputer Applications

3 sh

 

  ECON310 Intermediate Macroeconomics OR 
     ECON315 Intermediate Microeconomics

  3 sh

 

  MATH141 Calculus 1 OR 
     MATH180 Mathematics for Management

  3 sh

    MANG305 Operations/Production Management

3 sh

 

  MANG315 Management: Concepts and Strategies

  3 sh

 

  MANG 325 Financial Management

3 sh

 

  MANG475 Capstone Seminar in Strategic Management

  3 sh

 

  MRKT200 Introduction to Marketing

3 sh

    POLI302 Business Law 1

3 sh

C.

Areas of Concentration (15-18 sh total)

 

 

Students must complete the requirements in at least one of the following concentrations:

 

     

 

  (1) Finance & Economics (15 sh total)

 

 

  ECON310 Intermediate Macroeconomics and 
     ECON315 Intermediate Microeconomics (whichever is not taken for Major Core)

3 sh

 

  ECON340 Money & Banking

  3 sh

    MANG430 International Financial Management

3 sh

 

Select two upper division economics courses

6 sh

     

 

  (2) Management (15 sh total)

 

 

  MANG320 Human Resource Management

  3 sh

    MANG425 International Business

3 sh

 

Select three of the following:

 

    MANG317 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

3 sh
    POLI260 Public Administration

3 sh

 

  POLI325 Labor Management Relations

3 sh

    POLI330 Public Policy

3 sh

 

  POLI365 Organizational Theory and Practice

3 sh

    PSYC313 Industrial and Organizational Psychology

3 sh
     

 

(3) International Business (15 sh total)

 

 

  ECON355 International Trade and Finance

3 sh

 

  MANG425 International Business

3 sh

 

  MANG430 International Financial Management

3 sh

 

Select two of the following:

 

 

  ECON330 Economic Development

  3 sh

    GEOG440 Economic Geography

3 sh

 

  HIST390 Contemporary World Problems

  3 sh

 

  POLI315 Politics in the Developing Nations

3 sh

 

  POLI350 International Relations

  3 sh

Note:  Students selecting this concentration are encouraged strongly to opt for a semester of study abroad.  They are also encouraged strongly to become proficient in a second language.

(4) Management Information Systems (21 sh)

 

  CISC200 Fundamentals of Networking 3 sh
CISC220 Contemporary Issues in Computing

3 sh

CISC255 Database Design 3 sh
  CISC260 Information Technology Project Management 3 sh
CISC306 Systems Analysis and Design 3 sh
CISC330 Emerging Business Technologies 3 sh
MANG101 Introduction to Management Information Systems 3 sh

D.

Major Electives (8-11 sh:  11 sh for Finance/Economics, Management, and International Business; 5 sh for MIS)
  Courses selected as Major Electives may be taken from courses below or from courses listed in any of the concentrations.  
ACCT210 Introduction to Federal Income Tax 3 sh
ACCT215 Accounting Information System 3 sh
ACCT300 Cost Accounting 3 sh
CISC220 Contemporary Issues in Computing 3 sh
CISC330 Advanced Office Systems 3 sh
  COMP160 Programming I 3 sh
ECON301 Economics of the Environment 3 sh
ECON305 History of Economic Thought 3 sh
  ECON320 American Public Finance 3 sh
ECON335 Regional and Urban Economics 3 sh
ECON350 Comparative Economic Systems 3 sh
ECON360 Current Economic Problems 3 sh
ECON410 Econometrics 3 sh
ECON415 Mathematical Economics 3 sh
ENGL358 Business Report Writing 3 sh
HIST205 History of the United States Labor Movement 3 sh
HIST225 US Business History 3 sh
  JOUR200 Mass Media Marketing 3 sh
  JOUR292 Principles of Advertising 3 sh
  JOUR496 Advertising Campaign Development 3 sh
MANG220 Introduction to Personal Financial Management 3 sh
MANG317 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 3 sh
  MANG326 Fundamentals of Investment Management 3 sh
  MRKT300 Consumer Behavior 3 sh
PHIL425 Ethics in Business and Industry 3 sh
POLI303 Business Law 2 3 sh
SOCI402 Industrial Sociology 3 sh
SPCH305 Public Relations 3 sh
SPCH320 Business and Professional Speaking 3 sh

Foreign Language (6-9 sh in one foreign language.  Credit given for level IV plus 3-6 sh for course work beyond level IV.)

Internship (maximum of 6 sh in approved internships toward the major electives requirement)

Updated  11/14/2007