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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

MAJOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:

The International Business Major is designed to provide students with a particularly wide variety of experiences to prepare them to participate successfully in global business. International business students need to be educated in the history, language, and practices of other cultures. Along with a strong foundation of business courses, this major draws upon the strengths of related disciplines such as foreign language, literature, history, geography, philosophy, political science, and theology. Upon graduation, students are fully prepared to enter a global organization in any one of several functional areas (marketing, management, and manufacturing) or proceed to graduate studies.

Requirements:

The courses in the International Business Major are divided into three areas:

Area I:

Business Knowledge Core (nine courses)

ACC 125 Principles of Accounting I
ACC 126 Principles of Accounting II
ECO 110 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 111 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 115 Statistics
ECO 325 Corporate Finance
MGT 100 Management and Organizational Behavior
MGT 101 Principles of Marketing
MGT 210 Quantitative Methods

Area II:

International Business Core (six courses) MGT 306 International Marketing MGT 307 International Management MGT 400 Business Strategy Foreign Language at level 3. International business majors are encouraged to satisfy their General Education requirement by selecting the language option. Language competency may also be satisfied through AP level 4. One additional foreign language or linguistics course at any level. This foreign language will be other than that used to satisfy the level 3 requirement. One from among the following courses, or two if foreign language competency is satisfied by AP credits:

MGT 318 Asian Business Practices
MGT 320 European Business Practices
MGT 334 International Communication: Organizational Perspectives
ECO 353 International Trade OR ECO 354 International Finance
MGT 399 Internship in Business: This is a supervised internship sponsored by the Business Studies Department.

The two types of internships which may qualify are (1) internships through an approved overseas study program, or (2) internships with a U.S.-based, multinational corporation in an international, functional area. These internships should be planned with the internship coordinator at least one semester in advance. The sequencing of International Business Core and Depth courses should follow that already suggested for the management or marketing major. The sequencing of the other requirements of this major remains at the discretion of the student and his/her advisor. Note: Students are not officially enrolled until the internship coordinator has approved the application and notified the Registrar that the student may register for the internship course.

Area III:

International Business Cultural Literacy Depth (3 courses, one in each of 3 areas) The focus of this area is to build student knowledge of cultural literacy. Additional courses which clearly support this learning goal will be approved by the Chair, Department of Business Studies. A literature or film course in a foreign language or ENG 378 Post-Colonial Literature, and other literature courses whose focus is non-American.

GEOGRAPHY:

GEO 222 Regional Geography of South America
GEO 224 Regional Geography of Asia
GEO 232 Regional Geography of Africa
HIS 207 Islam, Modernity & the West
HIS 210 Diplomatic History of Europe in the 20th Century
HIS 242 Russia since 1917
HIS 251 Modern Latin America since 1821
HIS 267 United States Foreign Relations Since 1898
HIS 272 Germany since 1890
HIS 282 Japan From 1868 to Present
HIS 283 Modern China: War and Revolution
PHI 365 Late Modern Philosophy

POLITICAL SCIENCE:

POL 207 Peace and War
POL 331 Latin American Politics
POL 332 Russian and Post-Soviet Politics
POL 333 Asian Politics
POL 371 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
POL 375 The Study of International Relations

ANTHROPOLOGY:

ANT 131 Cultural Anthropology
ANT 230 Special Topics
ANT 235 Ethnography of Latin America
THE 383 Asian Traditions
MGT 399* Internship in Business * The internship requires a minimum GPA of 2.8.

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