Quantitative Skills

• MAT 284 - Business Calculus *
• MAS 261 - Introductory Statistics for Management
• Science electives (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, or any physical science) 3 credits
• BUA 345 - Business Analytics for Management Decisions

Communication Skills

• WRT 105 - Studio 1: Practices of Academic Writing
• WRT 205 - Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
• WRT 307 - Advanced Writing Studio: Professional Writing

Required Arts & Sciences Courses

• PSY 205 - Foundations of Human Behavior
• ECN 203 - Economic Ideas and Issues
• ECN 300+ - 300- or 400-level economics elective (recommended ECN 303 - Micro for Business)

Arts & Science Electives

• 27 credits taken through any subject offered by the College of Arts & Sciences

Introductory Core

In addition to management coursework taken within other skills areas, students are required to complete the following coursework in the management core:

• SOM 122 - Perspectives of Business and Management (fall only)
• LPP 255 - Introduction to the Legal System
• ACC 151 - Introduction to Financial Accounting
• ACC 252 - Intro to Managerial Acc

Major Field Specialization

• All students, except those majoring in CPA accounting, take 15 credits in the major area beyond core requirements. Students must contact an academic advisor in the chosen major field to discuss specific requirements.

Business Elective

• A business elective is any upper-division course in the Whitman School that gives credit but is not used to fill requirements in other groups. This course cannot be from the student’s major area.

Free Electives

• Students complete additional credits from any credit-bearing course with the following conditions: no more than 3 credits of physical education, health, or music ensemble may be used; and students may not take courses considered to have content that duplicates courses already taken.