Division of Business

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science Degree with Major in Business

BUS 2113 Financial Spreadsheet Applications (Three hours)
Practice in using spreadsheets for accounting and financial applications. Emphasizes creating schedules, financial modeling, generating macros, and producing reports.
Prerequisite: ATG 1163 or 1173

Offered spring semester

BUS 2123 Business Communication (Three hours)
Development of professional communication skills, both written and oral, in business. Includes mechanics, techniques, and psychological principles of effective business communications, with emphasis on contemporary communication technologies.
Prerequisites: keyboarding skill, EGL 1023

Offered spring semester

BUS 2153 Financial Mathematics (Three hours)
Study of time-value models used in business. Topics include simple interest, compound interest, annuities, debt extinction, and bond pricing.
Prerequisite: MTH 1113*
*equivalent, or consent of instructor

Offered spring semester

BUS 2193 Business Statistics (Three hours)
A general course in statistical theory as it applies in business settings. Topics include probability, distributions, descriptive statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, non-parametric methods, ANOVA, and statistical quality control.
Prerequisite: MTH 1113, equivalent, or consent of instructor

Offered fall semester

BUS 3123 Developing Applications with Access
Practice in developing applications for managing information with Microsoft Access. Specific activities include creating and maintaining electronic files, forms, sorts, reports, queries, and writing macros and procedures.
Prerequisite: junior standing

BUS 3153 Applied Business Ethics (Three hours)
The applied business ethics course is an integrated set of activities designed to raise student awareness of real-life business moral dilemmas while gaining practical experience in the implementation, and operation of business ethics programs and departments. Students write business cases, draft corporate codes of conduct and study cases and laws related to corporate governance. Students interact with business ethics professionals and the Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics.
Prerequisite: junior standing

Offered each semester

BUS 3993 Internship (Three hours)
Supervised learning involving field experience in a business firm. Offered during the summer after the junior year. Arrangements for taking the course must be made with the intern coordinator in the spring of the junior year and completed during the fall semester of the senior year.
Prerequisite: junior standing

Offered fall semester

BUS 4111 Field Experience (One hour)
Supervised learning involving field experience in a business firm. Students enter into a learning agreement, document the work, meet with the supervising faculty, and complete reflective assignments on the learning outcomes. As many as three field experience credits may count toward graduation hours.
Prerequisite: ATG/BUS/INT 3993

Offered upon sufficient request

BUS 4131, 4132, 4133 Selected Topics (One to three hours)
A course offering students opportunities to study subjects of special interest. May be offered on a group basis in a classroom setting or as independent study under faculty supervision.
Prerequisite: junior standing and consent of instructor

Offered upon sufficient request

BUS 4143 Business Law (Three hours)
Basic legal principles that govern modern business transactions. Topics include contracts, real and personal property, agencies, employment, business formation, and Uniform Commercial Code.
Prerequisite: junior standing

Offered fall semester

BUS 4173 Business Finance (Three hours)
Study of decision-making techniques involving working capital management, capital budgeting, long-term financing, and dividend policy.
Prerequisites: ATG 1183 and ECN 2123

Offered fall semester

BUS 4243 International Law (Three hours)
A look at areas of business law from an international viewpoint. Topics include the U.S. Constitution, government regulations of business, regulation of international trade, negotiable instruments, major western and non-western legal traditions, treaties, multinational companies, customs, conflicts of law, and international contracts.

Offered spring semester (even-numbered years)

BUS 4993 Strategic Management (Three hours)
Integrative study of business strategy and policy involving case studies, simulations, research, and formal presentations. Focus on procedures and practices of upper-level management. This is a final capstone course, open only to majors in the Division of Business, and should be taken during the student’s final spring semester at the University.
Prerequisite: senior standing and final spring semester

Offered spring semester