Business Administration

The bachelor of science program in business administration provides substantially more flexibility than traditional business majors. A strong liberal arts and business education prepares students for business careers and graduate study, while allowing a substantial amount of elective freedom for individual interests.

Requirements for the bachelor of science degree in business administration include completion of a core business curriculum and at least one of seven areas of concentration --- accounting, finance, human resource management, international business, legal studies, management, or marketing. (R) = Course must be taken at Ithaca College

Curriculum

First Year		Credits
888-10000	First Year Seminar in Business	1
888-10100	World of Business	3
306-12100 306-12200	Principles of Macroeconomics Principles of Microeconomics	3 3
313-10800	Calculus for Decision Making
377-xxxxx	Writing course (377-10600 or above)	4 3
	Social science elective	3
	Humanities elective (Note: International business concentration students must take modern foreign language requirement)	3
	Natural science elective (any course designated NS)	3
312-11000	Introduction to Computers and Information Systems	3
	Total	29
Second Year
883-20300	Financial Markets and Institutions	3
313-24400	Statistics with Probability	4
880-22500	Financial Accounting	3
880-22600	Management Accounting	3
887-20300	Introduction to Law I	3
	Natural science elective (from biology, chemistry, or physics)	3
319-11000	Public Communication or
319-11500	Business and Professional Communication	3
	Social science elective	3
	Humanities elective (Note: International business concentration students must take modern foreign language requirement)	3
	Liberal arts elective	3
	Total	31
Third Year
882-36000	Management Information Systems or
880-32000	Accounting Information Systems	3
883-31100	Business Finance (R)	3
884-31200	Principles of Marketing	3
885-30600	Organizational Behavior	3
886-34500	Operations Management	3
	Concentration requirement	6
	Concentration requirement (international business elective)	3
	Liberal arts electives (Note: International business concentration students must take approved international business liberal arts electives)	6
	Total	30
Fourth Year
882-42100	Strategic Management (R)	3
	Concentration Requirement	9
	Open electives	8
	Liberal arts electives	10
	Total	30

Requirements for Concentrations

Students in the School of Business may use a course to satisfy degree requirements in more than one business concentration as long as they complete 12 unique credits in each concentration.

Accounting Concentration

Note: Students interested in sitting for the Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.) examination should opt for the B.S. degree in accounting, p. 31. The B.S. in business administration with accounting concentration might not qualify the student to sit for the C.P.A. examination.

880-34500	Intermediate Financial Accounting	3
880-31500	Cost Accounting (R)	3
880-49300	Tax Accounting (R)	3

Approved accounting electives

880-34600	Financial Accounting Theory and Reporting
880-40200	Advanced Accounting
880-49700	Selected Topics in Accounting
887-30700	Commercial Law	6

Approved international business elective

881-26500	International Business Operations
883-37000	International Finance
884-38000	International Marketing
887-31000	International Business Law	3
	Total	18

Electronic Commerce Concentration

884-39000	Principles of Electronic Commerce	3
884-39100	Electronic Commerce: Legal & Ethical Issues	3
884-49100	Marketing on the Internet	3
884-41100	Marketing Research	3

Approved international business elective

881-26500	International Business Operations
883-37000	International Finance
884-38000	International Marketing
887-31000	International Business Law	3

Electronic Commerce Elective (select one)

884-39600	Selected Topics in Electronic Commerce
225-11100	Presentation Support Media
312-13600	Intro. to Multimedia Programming
312-23800	Internet Programming
225-21000	Designing Learning Systems
225-25500	Computer Applications
225-35000	Interactive Multimedia
225-45000	Organizational Communication and Technology	3

Finance Concentration

883-32100	Security Analysis and Portfolio Management (R)	3
883-37000	International Finance	3
883-48000	Cases in Financial Management (R)	3
	Finance elective (level 2 or above)	3
	Business electives (level 2 or above)	6
	Total	18

Human Resource Management Concentration

882-22000	Principles of Management	3
885-34000	Human Resource Management	3
885-35000	Labor Relations	3
885-44400	Employment Law	3

Approved international business elective

881-26500	International Business Operations
883-37000	International Finance
884-38000	International Marketing
887-31000	International Business Law	3
	Business elective (level 2 or above)	3
	Total	18

International Business Concentration

881-26500	International Business Operations	3
884-38000	International Marketing	3
883-37000	International Finance	3
881-49000	Seminar in International Business (R)	3
	Business electives (level 2 or above)	6
	Total	18

Legal Studies Concentration

Foundation dimensions of the law (select one)

887-20400	Introduction to Law II
887-30700	Commercial Law	3

Applied dimensions of the law (select two)

885-44000	Employment Law
887-31000	International Business Law
887-32000	Marketplace Regulation and Consumer Protection
887-32300	Legal Research Seminar
887-35300	Real Estate Law
310-30300	Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties
310-36400	Law and Public Policy
640-43500	Health Care Law	6

Social/ethical dimensions of law (select two)

887-43000	Business and Society
221-31200	Government and the Media
306-35200	Economics of Regulation
306-37200	Industrial Organization Regulation
310-12300	Political Justice
310-31000	Supreme Court in U.S. Politics
310-36300	Politics of Equality
314-21200	Introduction to Ethics
314-23000	Medical Ethics
314-25000	Environmental Ethics
314-32500	Philosophy of Public Policy
314-37500, 314-37600	Selected Topics (approval required by dean of School of Business)
330-49200	Seminar in Psychology: Psychology and Law
331-20300	Juvenile Delinquency
331-30200	Sociology of Crime
331-30700	Social Policy
331-42100	Seminar: Race, Racism and the Law
663-30300	Seminar in Legal and Ethical Issues in Sport	6

Approved international business elective (select one)

881-26500	International Business Operations
883-37000	International Finance
884-38000	International Marketing
887-31000	International Business Law	3
	Total	18

Management Concentration

882-22000	Principles of Management	3
885-34000	Human Resource Management	3
887-20400	Introduction to Law II	3
	Business elective (level 2 or above)	3

Management elective (level 2 or above)

Any course at level 2 or above with course number 882-xxxxx, 885-xxxxx, 886-xxxxx or 887-xxxxx

3

Approved international business elective (select one)

881-26500	International Business Operations
883-37000	International Finance
884-38000	International Marketing
887-31000	International Business Law	3
	Total	18

Marketing Concentration

884-41100	Marketing Research	3
884-32300	Consumer Behavior	3
884-38000	International Marketing	3
884-48600	Marketing Strategy	3
88x-xxxxx	Business electives (level 2 or above)	6
	Total	18

All CATALOGS