Requirements for the Business Major (52 credits)

I. Introductory (16 credits)

course - Fundamentals of Business
course - Economic Principles: Microeconomics
course - Economic Principles: Macroeconomics
course - Introduction to Statistics

II. Core (20 credits)

Complete all of the following:

course - Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
course - Principles of Management (WRMJ)
course - Business Law
course - Principles of Finance OR course Principles of Marketing
course - Business Ethics OR course - Organizational Ethics

III. Electives (16 credits)

Elective courses are designed to further a student’s understanding of business administration in a specific context. Students are required to complete a total of 16 elective credits. A student may declare a single concentration in any of seven areas: Management, International Business, Organizational Behavior, Non Profit Management, Sports Management, Entrepreneurship, or Information Technology, in which case 12 of the 16 elective credits are required within that concentration. Alternatively, a student may elect not to declare a specific concentration and may instead complete 16 credits from any of the courses listed below. Other courses may count as electives by advisor petition.

WITH OPTIONAL CONCENTRATION:

A. Management (12 credits)

course - Managerial Accounting
course - Human Resource Management
course - Strategic Decision Making
course - Business Executive Roundtable

B. International Business (12 credits)

C. Organizational Behavior (12 credits)

course - The Future of Work
course - Anthropology of Business
course/course - Labor, Technology, and Society
course/course - Aviation Psychology and Management
course/course - Organizational Ethics
course - Topics in Psychology, when topic is appropriate
course - Organizational Psychology & Leadership
course - The Sociology of Management
course - Sociology of Work

D. Non-Profit Management (12 credits)

course - The Non-Profit Sector
course - Leadership in Practice
course/course - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender
course - Applied Analysis of Social Action
course - Social Action: Theorizing Global Trends
course - Performing Arts Administration

E. Sports Management (12 credits)

course - Sports Management
course - Sports Finance
course - Sports Marketing
course - Sports Statistics

F. Entrepreneurship (12 credits)

course - Entrepreneurship I
course - The Work of Innovation: Creating Organizations that Solve Problems
course - Entrepreneurship II

G. Information Technology (12 credits)

course/course - Data & Society: The Social Impact of Data and Digital Technology
course - Business and Technology: Perfect Together?
course/course - Labor, Technology, and Society
course - Introduction to Computer Science in Python
course - Principles of Cybersecurity
course - Databases & Information Management
course - Computer Networks & Security
course OR course - Data Visualization
course - Applied Data Analysis
course - Modeling and Simulation
course - Business Analytics

BUSN - Business Major

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