[Prerequisites] [Business Major] [Business Minor]
The BA/BS degrees are awarded to students who complete major requirements as listed below and a minor in a second academic area. (All university degrees require an overall of 62 upper-division hours.)
Admission to the Business major program is required for students seeking this degree. Typically, application for admission is made at the end of the student's sophomore year or the beginning of their junior year by completing a degree plan with the Division of Business and Economics office. Prior to admission to the program, students should have completed the following set of courses.
Prerequisite Courses for the Business Degree Program (2006 -)
| WR 135 | College Writing II | 4 |
| SP 111 | Fundamentals of Speech | 3 |
| MTH 111* | College Algebra | 4 |
| BA 240*
(MTH 241) |
Quantitative Business
Methods or |
4 |
BA 243 (MTH 243) |
Business Statistics or (Introduction to Probability & Statistics) |
4 |
| CS 121* | Computer Applications | 2 |
| BA 211 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BA 213 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| EC 201 | Introduction to Microeconomics | 4 |
| EC 202 | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 4 |
* These courses also fulfill the 12 hour Mathematics/Computer Science requirement for the BS degree.
Additional information regarding these requirements can be obtained from the division. Limited courses taken at other institutions may be transferred to the program based on the course level and grade obtained.
| BA 211 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BA 213 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| BA 230 | Intro to Business Law | 3 |
| BA 243 | Business Statistics (or Mth 243) | 4 |
| BA 310 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BA 315 | Financial Management | 3 |
| EC 318 | Money and Banking | 4 |
| BA 325 | Portfolio Management | 3 |
| BA 361 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BA 362 | Business Ethics (or BA 390) | 3 |
| BA 367 | Regression Analysis | 3 |
| BA 368 | Intro to Operations Research | 3 |
| BA 411 | Marketing Strategy | 3 |
| BA 490 | Operations Management | 3 |
| BA 491 | Strategic Management | 3 |
| Upper-division credits in Focus | 24 | |
| Total Hours in Major | 73 |
1. All university
degrees require a minimum of 6
hours in courses designated as
Writing Intensive.
2. The BS degree also requires
6 hours in courses designated
as Diversity intensive. For Business
majors, these 6 hours can be from
any courses identified with the
D designation in the Catalog.
Business majors should note that
BA 361 and EC 202, which are required
for all Business majors, have
the D designation. Other Business/Economics
courses approved for diversity
are BA 284, BA 370, BA 392, BA
484, EC 436, and EC 440.
3. The BA degree requires proficiency
in a foreign language through
the third term of the second year.
Courses taken to fulfill this
requirement can be used in a minor
or as free electives.
| BA 211 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BA 310 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BA 315 | Financial Management | 3 |
| BA 361 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BA 370 | Business and Society | 3 |
| Upper Division (300 or 400 level) Electives in Business, | ||
| Economics, or Entrepreneurship | 6 | |
| Total Hours in Minor | 22 |