International Business, B.S.B.A.

Complete Fourteen Business Core Courses

• Taken Freshman Year

• BUS 101 - First-Year Business Experience
• MTH 105 - Finite Mathematics OR

• MTH 125 - Calculus I  

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• Typically taken Freshman or Sophomore Year

• BUS 203 - Financial Accounting
• BUS 204 - Managerial Accounting
• BUS 206 - Quantitative Analysis OR

• (Or another Statistical Reasoning course: CRM 311 , ECO 241 , MTH 145 , MTH 225 , MTH 395 , MTH 396 , POL 310 , PSY 261 , SOC 311 )

• ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles
• ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles

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• Typically taken Sophomore Year

• BUS 333 - Organizational Behavior
• BUS 340 - Marketing Principles

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• Typically taken Junior Year

• BUS 320 - Corporate Finance
• BUS 336 - International Business
• BUS 352 - Legal Environment of Business
• BUS 360 - Operations and Supply Chain Management OR

• BUS 308 - Decision Support Systems, Tools and Operations Management  

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• Taken Senior Year

• BUS 469 - Policy and Strategy

Complete Six International Business Requirements

• Complete One Cultural Environments Course (Taken Junior Year)

• ANT 105 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANT 316 - People & Cultures of Russia & East Europe
• COM 315 - Intercultural Communication
• SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization OR

• A comparable class in history, religion, etc. that examines culture selected and approved by the Director of the International Business Program

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• Complete One Global Politics Course (Taken Junior Year)

• POL 143 - International Politics
• POL 234 - Comparing States
• POL 344 - Contemporary Global Issues
• POL 353 - International Law and Organizations
• POL 377 - International Political Economy

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• Complete One Global Economic Issues Course (Taken Junior Year)

• BUS 400 - Topics in International Business
• BUS 438 - Business and Society
• ECO 219 - History of World Economic Development
• ECO 311 - International Economics OR

• A substitute course approved by the Director of the International Business Program

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• Complete Three Additional Courses (Taken Senior Year)

• BUS 420 - Topics in Accounting (When the topic is International Accounting), OR

• BUS 425 - Multinational Corporate Finance  

• BUS 448 - Global Marketing
• BUS 465 - International Management

International Experience Requirement

All International Business majors are required to have an international experience through study abroad, an international internship, foreign language immersion experience, etc. and show a proficiency in a foreign language at the intermediate level.

All language courses taken to complete International Business requirements must be taken for a letter grade and not pass/fail.

Business Internship Program

Business majors are encouraged to participate in an internship. Only junior and senior Business majors with a 2.80 GPA or better may register for BUS 475 - Internship in Business Administration  unless granted permission by the Business Department Chairperson.

Students must work a minimum of 12 hours per week for 14 weeks (168 hours total) to earn 3 credits. Students are also required to submit a professional journal or portfolio and a research paper as part of their internship.

Business majors may apply a maximum of 6 credits of BUS 475 to their major.

Students are encouraged to consult with the following Department Internship Coordinators: 

Debra Salvucci: Accounting and Finance majors
Brian Glibkowski: International Business, Management, Marketing majors and Non-Business majors