Business Management Major Requirements for the B.A. and B.S. Degree
All business management majors are required to take the following nine courses:
Courses with the ACC, MGT and MKT codes are not counted as liberal arts
Senior Seminar (ECO 3997) must be taken for honors in the division. Students may take both ECO 3997 and MGT 3090 and one will count as an elective.
Elective Courses:
Business Management majors who do not choose an area of concentration must take 3 electives. In addition to the management-designated courses (coded MGT), students may take any accounting, economics, finance or marketing course as an elective (any course coded ACC,ECO, FIN or MKT).
Business Management majors who choose an area of concentration must choose their electives from the courses listed under their concentration. For the Human Resource Management concentration, students must take 1 additional required course and choose 3 electives, for a total of 13 courses. For the Finance concentration, students must take 3 additional required courses and one elective, for a total of 13 courses. For the International Management concentration, students must take 2 additional required courses and choose 2 electives, for a total of 13 courses. Students who concentrate in International Management are also required to minor in a language.
Senior Seminar
The seminar is offered only during the fall semester. Students undertake research on a topic approved by the instructor and use management tools and techniques to reach conclusions. The results of the research project are presented in a senior thesis and discussed in a seminar format. A grade of C- is the minimum standard for a successful senior evaluation. Students not taking the Senior Seminar, must take the MGT 3090 Capstone Seminar. Students may take both if they desire and only students who take the Senior Seminar will be considered for honors in the division at graduation.
Concentrations within the Business Management Major
Although not a requirement, a Business Management major may choose to concentrate in the following areas: accounting, finance, human resource management, international management or marketing.
Concentration in Accounting
Completion of the nine required courses for the business management major and the completion of:
Plus one of the following:
Courses with the ACC code are not counted as liberal arts
Concentration in Finance
Completion of the nine required courses for the Business Management major and the completion of:
Courses with the FIN code are not counted as liberal arts
Concentration in Marketing
Completion of the nine required courses for the business management major and the completion of any three of the following:
Courses with the MKT code are not counted as liberal arts
Concentration in Human Resource Management
Completion of the nine required courses for the business management major and the completion of:
Plus any three of the following:
Courses with the MGT code are not counted as liberal arts
Concentration in International Management
Completion of the nine required courses for the business management major and the completion of:
Plus two of the following:
Courses with the FIN or MGT codes are not counted as liberal arts.
Plus, students are also required to have a minor in one of the modern foreign languages offered at the College. The standards for satisfying this are established by the respective language programs within the World Languages and Literatures Department. The language requirement also applies to students with double majors, one of which is Management, with a concentration in International Management.
Students who can demonstrate fluent or near-fluent proficiency in a modern foreign language (usually involving protracted residence in a county where that language is spoken, and a secondary-school level of proficiency in reading and writing the language) may petition the World Languages and Literature department to be exempted from the minor requirement.