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Advisors: Charles Connell and Gordon Urquhart
This interdepartmental major has been designed to prepare students for graduate study in international business or for employment in business or government. The curriculum consists of a four-year program of courses in economics and business, history, politics, comparative culture, and at least one modern language. Students may not combine this major with a major in Economics and Business.
Major: A minimum of 14 course credits distributed as follows:
- Economics and Business
- 101 Economics I
- 102 Economics II
- 151 Introductory Accounting
- 223 International Economics
- 245 Marketing Management
- 253 Managerial Accounting
- 302 Income, Employment, and Prices
- 361 International Business
- Modern Languages FRE, GER, JPN, RUS, or SPA 205 or equivalent. A student with previous language experience may exempt from some this requirement by examination.
- Basic Courses
- HIS 318 Growth of Industrial Society
- POL 242 International Politics
- POL 349 International Political Economy
- Electives (three courses, at least two of which shall be from Group A, Non-Western). The courses shall be taken from this list or be a course approved by the IBU Committee as equivalent.
- Non-Western courses (at least two)
- ANT all courses except 105 (Human Origins)
- ART 323 African Art
- ART 342 Mesoamerican Art
- ECB 263 Multinational Corporations in Central America
- ENG 366 Third World Literature
- HIS 141 Latin America
- HIS 272 Ghandi and Modern India
- HIS 345 Mexican Revolution in Fiction and History
- MUS 225 World Music
- PHI 301 Asian Philosophy
- POL 345 Political Economy of Brazil
- POL 346 Political Economy of Developing Countries
- REL 202 Religions of the World
- REL 331 Mysticism: East and West
- REL 355 Religions of Ancient Mexico
- SPA 355 Latin American Short Story and Novel
- SPA 356 Latin American Poetry
- SPA 385 Latin American Culture and Civilization
- General Courses
- EST 123 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- HIS 315 The Diplomacy of War and Revolution
- PHI 223 Business Ethics
- POL 243 Comparative Politics
- POL 348 U.S. Foreign Policy
- Specific Western Area Courses
- FRE 303 French Culture and Civilization
- GER 281 Contemporary Central Europe
- GER 304 Business German
- HIS 104 Modern Europe and its Critics
- RUS 281 Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization
- RUS 384 Russia Today
- SPA 381 Peninsular Culture and Civilization
- The following courses are recommended as being relevant, though not required, for an International Business major.
- ECB 213 Economic Development
- ECB 323 International Economics Seminar
- FRE, GER, RUS, or SPA301. Composition and Conversation I
- FRE 302, GER 302, SPA 302/303. Composition and Conversation II
- FRE 352 Twentieth Century Literature II
- GER 352 Post-War Literature
- INT 201 or MAT 209 Statistics
- MAT 141 and MAT 142 Calculus I and II
- POL 111 Introduction to Politics
- RUS 351 Modern Russian Literature in Translation
- The International Business courses listed below.
390. Individual Project
480. International Business Internship Business internship with an international firm, taken for one or two months (one or two course credits) in the junior or senior year. Prerequisites: proficiency at the 301 level in a modern foreign language and permission of the International Business Committee. (CR)
490. International Business Summer Internship Business internship with an international firm, taken for at least two months (two course credits) during the summer between the junior and senior years. Prerequisites: proficiency at the 301 level in a modern foreign language and permission of the International Business Committee. (CR)
988-FRN-B. Semester in France: International Business
988-SPN-B. Semester in Spain: International Business
990. Semester in Germany (Hamburg or Mannheim)

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