International Business and Language (BS)

College of Arts & Sciences: Ann Hills

The goals of this degree are to develop the ability to communicate and interact in a business context with people of other nationalities and/or economies, to provide language students with career opportunities in international business, and to prepare graduates to function more efficiently in cross-cultural environments. French, Japanese, or Spanish may be chosen as the language of concentration.

Degree Requirements

Total program: 80 semester hours

Prerequisites Requirements

20 semester hours

Course List
Code	Title	Semester Hours
Select one of the following:		4
FREN 101	Elementary French II
JAPN 101	Beginning Japanese II
SPAN 101	Elementary Spanish II
Select one of the following:		8
FREN 210 & FREN 211	Intermediate French Stories and Conversation and Intermediate French Conversation and Film
JAPN 210 & JAPN 211	Intermediate Japanese I and Intermediate Japanese II
SPAN 210 & SPAN 211	Intermediate Spanish I: Short Stories and Intermediate Spanish II: Short Films
ACCT 203	Financial and Managerial Accounting	4
ECON 228	Economic Theories & Issues	4
Total Semester Hours		20

Core Requirements

48 semester hours

Course List
Code	Title	Semester Hours
Select one of the following:		4
FREN 420	Commercial French
JAPN 420	Commercial/Business Japanese
SPAN 420	Commercial Spanish
A 300 or 400 level FREN, JAPN, or SPAN course in the target language		4
ANTH 220	Cultural Anthropology	4
BUS 360	Principles of Marketing	4
BUS 466	International Marketing	4
ECON 324	Comparative Economic Systems	4
ECON 325	International Economics	4
MGMT 300	Principles of Management	4
MGMT 451	International Management	4
PLSC 231	International Relations	4
PLSC 261	Comparative Govt & Politics	4
BUS 496	Business Seminar (or FREN, JAPN, or SPAN 499 Senior Project)	4
Total Semester Hours		48

Electives

Three 4-semester hour, 300 or 400 level courses in BUS, ECON, FREN, JAPN, MGMT, PLSC, or SPAN chosen with the approval of the program Chairperson. Students who wish to take BUS 496 Business Seminar as their culminating activity must take MGMT 388 Statistics and BUS 330 Business Finance as two of their three electives. Students who are not going to enroll in BUS 496 Business Seminar cannot take MGMT 388 Statistics as one of their major electives.