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International Business (IBU)

 

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:

  1. 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

  2. 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.
  3. Basic Courses
    HIS 318 Growth of Industrial Society
    POL 242 International Politics
    POL 349 International Political Economy

  4. 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.
    1. 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

    2. 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

    3. 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

  5. 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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