Requirements for the Business Management Major
To satisfy the requirements for a business management major, a student must complete all of the required economics/management courses (28 semester hours) and 32 semester hours from the list of correlative courses. Transfer students will be required to complete at least 35 hours of coursework within the major (combination of required courses and correlative courses).
Currently enrolled students interested in transferring credits from other educational institutions toward a business management major must receive written permission from the Dean of the and from the Chair of the Economics/Management Department.
REQUIRED ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT COURSES Economics 201: Principles of Microeconomics (4)Economics 202: Principles of Macroeconomics (4)
Management 207: Financial Accounting I (3)
Management 208: Financial Accounting II (1)
Management 325: Cost Management (4)
Management 218: Organizational Behavior (4)
Management 255: Principles of Marketing (4)
Management 302: Corporation Finance (4) or Management 335: Financial Decision Making (3)
CORRELATIVE COURSES
Communication101: Foundations of Public Communication (4)
220: Interpersonal Communication (3)
221: Group Interaction Processes (3)
222: Organizational Communication (4)
230: Argumentation and Advocacy (3)
241: Mass Media and Society (3)
250: Communication Between Cultures (3)
326: Persuasion and Attitude Change (4)
470: Communication Research Methodology (1)
Computer Science
160: Computer Literacy (4)
165: The Information Age and Computers (3)
240: Computer Ethics (3)
Economics
200: Economic Issues (4)
241: Economic Development (4)
250: Microeconomics: Decision Making (4)
306: Comparative Economic Systems (4)
307: Market Structure, Strategy, and Performance (4)
318: International Trade and Finance (4)
321: Money, Banking, and Monetary Theory (4)
326: Soviet Economics in Transition (4)
330: Public Finance (4)
335: Work, Wages, and Employment (3)
336: Urban Economics (4)
338: Environmental Policy (4)
360: Macroeconomics: Unemployment, Inflation, Business Conditions (4)
Interdisciplinary
304: Public Policy Making (3)
327: Electronic Crime in Modern Business Cultures (4)
334: Changing Rules: Private and Public Institutions (3)
336: Urban Design and Regional Planning (3)
357: The Language and Principles of Leadership (4)
365: Urban Land Use Policy (3)
381: Creativity, Problem Solving, & Conceptual Block-busting (3)
Management
204: Small Business Administration in Today's Economy (4)
210: Accounting Spreadsheets (1)
301: Marketing Management (4)
303: Investments (4)
304: Corporate Deviance (3)
309: Federal Taxation Accounting (4)
313: Operations Management (4)
318: Consumer Behavior (3)
319: Auditing (3)
321: Business Law I (4)
322: Business Law II (4)
325: Cost Management (4)
328: Human Resource Management (4)
340: International Management (4)
351: Financial Reporting I (4)
352: Financial Reporting II (4)
355: Marketing Research (3)
361: Multinational Marketing (4)
365: Financing International Business Firms (4)
366: Organization Development (4)
441: Financial Reporting for Business Combinations (3)
442: Accounting for Nonprofit Entities(3)
Mathematics
108: Statistics (4)
132: Methods in Decision Making (3)
Political Science
109: American Government (3)
205: World Geography (4)
210: State and Local Government (4)
211: Government and Politics of the Middle East (4)
212: International Organizations and Law (4)
223: Comparative Politics (3)
231: International Politics (4)
233: Politics of International Economic Relation (3)
311: Middle East and World Politics (4)
317: Comparative Foreign Policy (4)
330: American Foreign Policy (3)
415: Public Administration (3)
Psychology
101: Introduction to Psychology (4)
220: Industrial Psychology (3)
315: Program and Policy Evaluation (4)
Sociology
155: Introduction to Sociology (4)
201: Social Problems (4)
236: Urban Sociology (4)
239: Sex and Gender (3)
251: Population Patterns: An Introduction to Social Demography (3)
321: Social Deviance (3)
322: Inequality (3)
Writing
311: Writing for Business (4)
New courses may be added to the correlative list periodically. Correlative courses are designated in the term schedules.