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Next: International Relations (IRE) Up: Courses of Instruction Previous: Interdepartmental Courses (INT)
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 major both in International Business and Economics and Business.
Major: A minimum of 14 course credits distributed as follows:
- Economics and Business (eight courses)
101 (Macroeconomics), 102 (Microeconomics), 151 (Financial Accounting), 223 (International Economics), 245 (Introduction to Marketing), 253 (Managerial Accounting), 302 (Income, Employment, and the Price Level), and 361 (International Business Seminar).
- Modern Languages (zero - four courses)
FRE, GER, JPN, RUS, SPA 205 or equivalent. A student with previous language experience may be exempted from some or all of this requirement by examination.
- Basic Courses (three courses)
HIS 318 (Growth of Industrial Society); POL 242 (International Politics), 349 (International Political Economy).
- Electives (three courses, at least two of which shall be Non-Western courses). The courses shall be taken from this list or be approved by the IBU Committee as equivalent.
- Non-Western courses (at least two)
All ANT courses except 105 (Human Origins), ART 261 (Topics in Non-Western Art); ECB 263 (Multinational Corporations in Central America); HIS 141 (Latin American History), 349 (Topics in Latin American History); MUS 225 (World Music); PHI 301 (Asian Philosophy); POL 345 (Political Economy of Brazil), 346 (Political Economy of Developing Countries); REL 202 (Religions of the World), 326 (Islam), 331 (Mysticism: East and West), 355 (Religions of Ancient Mexico); SPA 355 (Latin American Short Story and Novel), 356 (Latin American Poetry), 385 (Latin American Culture and Civilization).- General Courses
EST 123 (Introduction to Ethnic Studies); ENG 367 (Multicultural Literature); HIS 315 (The Diplomacy of War and Revolution); PHI 223 (Business Ethics); POL 243 (Comparative Politics), 348 (U.S. Foreign Policy).- Specific Western Area Courses
FRE 303 (French and Francophone Cultures); GER 281 (Contemporary Central Europe), 304 (Business German); HIS 104 (Modern Europe and Its Critics), 323 (Russia from 1941); RUS 281 (Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization), 384 (Russia Today); SPA 381 (Peninsular Culture and Civilization).- Non-Western courses (at least two)
- The following courses are recommended as being relevant, though not required, for an International Business major:
ECB 213 (Economic Development), 323 (International Economics Seminar); FRE, GER, RUS, or SPA 301 (Composition and Conversation); FRE 302, GER 302, SPA 302/303 (Composition and Conversation II); FRE 352 (Twentieth Century II: Writing as Psychological Analysis); GER 352 (Post-War Literature); INT 201 (Statistical Methods), 211 (Fundamentals of Statistics), or MAT 347 (Mathematical Statistics I), MAT 141 and 142 (Calculus I and II); POL 111 (Politics); RUS 355 (Russian Literature in Translation, 1932-Present); the International Business courses listed below.
380. 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. See Courses 280/380. (CR)
390. Individual Project: see Courses 290/390.
399. 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. See Courses 299/399. (CR)
990. Semester in Germany (Hamburg or Mannheim)
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