General Business Concentration - Business Administration B.S.

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Pengtao Li, Ph.D., Advisor

Office: Demergasso-Bava Hall 212
Phone: (209) 667-3586

The concentration in General Business is available to students earning the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration .

View the degree program Roadmap, which provide recommended advising maps to complete the degree program. Please consult your academic advisor as you develop your academic plan.

The General Business concentration is intended for students wishing to take coursework in several functional areas of business. To this end, the student must choose coursework in a minimum of three different functional areas of business administration including computer information systems, accounting, finance, management, marketing, and operations management. The resulting broad overview of business should enable graduates to gain entry into a variety of lower-level management positions in a broad range of businesses.

The Major

1. Complete the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements.

A student must comply with all University regulations and satisfy the following requirements:

Units and Residency (minimum of 120 units: 40 units of upper division coursework and 30 semester units at Stanislaus State. At least 24 of these 30 units must be earned in upper-division courses, at least 12 must be in the major, and at least 9 must be applicable to General Education-Breadth requirements)
Grade Point Average (minimum grade point average of 2.0 (C) or better)
General Education (minimum of 49 units)
Upper Division Writing Proficiency (minimum of 3 units)
- Writing Proficiency (WP) Course (may double count in the major)
United States Constitution and California State and Local Government (minimum of 3 units)
Multicultural Requirement (minimum of 3 units) (may double count with General Education requirements or in the major)

Subsequently all students must submit an application for graduation and receive approval from the major advisor, department chair, and Director of Academic Advising. For more information see the Baccalaureate Degree Requirements .

2. Complete the following prerequisites with a letter grade of C- or better in each course:

(27 units)

ACC 2110 - Financial Accounting 3 unit(s)
ACC 2130 - Managerial Accounting 3 unit(s)
CIS 2000 - Introduction to Business Computer Systems 3 unit(s)
BLW 2060 - Law, Environment and Ethics 3 unit(s)
BUS 2090 - Ethics and Social Responsibility for Businesses and Businesspeople 3 unit(s)
ECON 2500 - Principles of Macro Economics 3 unit(s)
ECON 2510 - Principles of Micro Economics 3 unit(s)
MATH 1500 - Finite Mathematics 3 unit(s) or
MATH 1410 - Calculus I
or
MATH 1552 Finite Mathematics and Business Statistics II
or MATH 1910 Calculus with Applications I
MATH 1610 - Statistics for Decision Making 3 unit(s) or
MATH 1600 Statistics
or
MATH 1553 Finite Mathematics and Business Statistics III

3. Complete the Writing Proficiency Requirement:

(3 units)

BUS 3100 - Business Technical Writing Communication (WP) 3 unit(s)
ENGL 3007 - Business Writing (WP) 3 unit(s)

4. Complete a minimum 26 units of coursework in the business administration core with a letter grade of C- or better in each course:

(26 units minimum)

BUS 4901 - Business Professionalism 1 unit(s)
CIS 3700 - Information Technology for Management 3 unit(s)
FIN 3220 - Business Finance 3 unit(s)
FIN 3225 - Financial Statement Analysis 1 unit(s) or ACC 3110 - Intermediate Accounting I
MGT 3310 - Management Theory and Practice 3 unit(s)
MGT 3400 - International Business 3 unit(s)
MGT 4900 - Business Policy 3 unit(s)
MKT 3410 - Principles of Marketing 3 unit(s)
OM 3010 - Operations Management 3 unit(s)
OM 3020 - Management Science 3 unit(s)

5. Complete a concentration.

The Concentration

(15 units)

Complete 15 units of upper-division (3000- and 4000-numbered courses) coursework in a minimum of three areas of Accounting, Business, Computer Information Systems, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Operations Management within the College of Business Administration. Note: BUS 3005 can be taken toward these 15 units.

Note:

All courses in the General Business concentration must be completed with a letter grade of C– or better.