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Foreign Language (B.A.)

Designed to provide the student of modern languages with a liberal arts education and a core of business courses that will open doors to a career in international business.

Required course work includes the university requirements (see regulation J-3), the general requirements for the B.A. degree, and:

In addition to the course work specified for this major, an international experience is required. This requirement will normally be fulfilled by completing a program of studies abroad which takes place after the student has finished language study through the intermediate (200) level. The specific program must receive prior approval from the student's MLC advisor and must be one that lasts a minimum of 12-15 weeks. The classes taken must earn a minimum of 12 upper-division (300/400 level) academic credits and be in subjects pertinent to the student's language option. Such credits may be obtained by two consecutive summer programs.

Business Option

One modern language (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish), elementary and intermediate (16 cr)

Approved upper-division courses in the same language (including one business course or approved alternative in the target language) (21 cr)

Acct 201

Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 cr)

One of the following (3-4 cr):

Econ 202

Principles of Microeconomics (3 cr)

Econ 272

Foundations of Econ Analysis (4 cr)

One of the following groups of courses (15-17 cr):

Group A:

Bus 301

Financial Management (3 cr)

Bus 311

Introduction to Management (3 cr)

Bus 321

Marketing (3 cr)

Six credits taken from Bus 101 or any other 300- or 400-level BUS prefix course

or

One of the following (3 cr):

Bus 340

Team Building and Group Dynamics (2 cr)

Bus 341

Business Systems (4 cr)

Bus 342

Product and Process Planning (3 cr)

Bus 343

Planning and Decision-Making in Organizations (2 cr)

Bus 344

Managing the Firm's Resources (3 cr)

Bus 345

Business Operating Decisions (3 cr)

One of the following (3 cr)

FLEN 307

The European Union (3 cr)

FLEN 308

European Immigration and Integration (3 cr)

Approved Alternative Course (3 cr)

Courses to total 120 credits for this degree, Business courses to total 21 credits