Business Administration: BS, with Finance Concentration

Program Outcomes

• Demonstrate knowledge and application of business administration concepts including central theories, mode of analysis, tasks, and strategies.
• Demonstrate professional written and oral communication skills and abilities appropriate to business-related tasks and responsibilities.
• Apply and integrate reflective and critical thinking skills to assess and create business strategies appropriate for organizations in specified business environments.
• Employ a stance of ethical awareness and social responsibility through a comprehension of the legal, ethical, moral, and social issues encountered in business.
• Comprehend and apply financial concepts in making financial decisions in domestic and global business environments.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze financial statements, cash flow and assess financial performance of companies using ratio analysis.
• Demonstrate a practical understanding of business principles and their connection to economics, finance, and accounting principles.

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

The minimum number of units necessary to receive the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Finance Concentration, including courses for the major, the business core, general education, and free electives, exclusive of foundation courses is 120 units.

Curriculum Plan

Foundation Courses

15 units*
*Requirement will be determined by placement testing

• EN 090T - Review of English
• EN 100T - English Fundamentals
• SC 090T - Review of Math
• SC 100T - Math Fundamentals
• MS 100T - Fundamentals of Microcomputers

General Education

45 units

• CU 101T - Student Success
    
  3 units
• Two (2) each from Groups 1 and 3
  12 units
  1. Oral/Written/Visual Communication (must take EN150T and EN230T to ensure Oral Communication unless comparable courses have been taken/transferred in)
  3. Math/Data Analysis - must choose College Math and another course which fits the needs of the student’s chosen major/profession
• Two (2) each from Groups 2, 4, and 5
  18 units
  2. Arts/Humanities
  4. Natural/Physical Sciences
  5. Social/Behavioral Sciences
• General Education Electives - choose four (4) from groups 1 - 5
  12 units

Business Core

36 units

• AC 201T - Accounting Principles I
• AC 202T - Accounting Principles II
• AC 273T - Managerial Accounting
• EC 201T - Macroeconomics
• FN 211T - Introduction to Investments
• MG 200T - Administrative Management
• MG 250T - Human Resource Management
• MG 304T - International Business Environment
• MG 499T - Strategic Management Decisions
• MK 201T - Introduction to Marketing
• MS 182T - Introduction to Information Systems
• PH 306T - Business Ethics

Major Core

24 units

• EC 245T - History of Economic Thought
• EC 303T - Seminar in Economics and Finance
• FN 312T - Financial Management
• FN 350T - Techniques of Financial Analysis
• FN 360T - Capital Budgeting and Evaluation of Projects
• FN 370T - Financial Markets
• FN 380T - Security Analysis
• FN 410T - Risk Management

Free Electives

15 units