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Nov 08, 2024
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2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Commerce, B.S.
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Economics and Finance
615-898-5117
Sean Salter, program coordinator
Sean.Salter@mtsu.edu
The Bachelor of Science in Commerce follows the University’s general requirements for baccalaureate degrees and requires a minimum 2.00 inclusive GPA. Appropriate prior learning assessment credit and/or military education credit may count for a maximum of 24 semester hours toward the degree.
This includes a built-in Business Administration minor; however, a minor is not required for this major. Another minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.
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Degree Requirements
| General Education |
41 hours |
| Common Body of Knowledge |
31 hours* |
| Business Electives |
24 hours |
| Electives |
24-27 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the General Education curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill General Education requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.
General Education (41 hours)
General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.
The following course required by the program meets General Education requirements:
Commerce Common Body of Knowledge (31 hours)
All students must complete the Commerce Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) which requires 31 hours.
Communication for Commerce (3 hours)
Business Electives (24 hours)
All students must complete 24 semester hours of business elective courses (chosen from courses with ACTG, BCED, BIA, BLAW, BUS, ECON, ENTR, FIN, INFS, LEAD, MGMT, or MKT prefixes). At least 18 of these 24 semester hours must be upper-division hours. A student may not count more than 6 semester hours from any one academic discipline, and a student may not count more than 12 semester hours from any one academic department.
General Electives (24 hours)
All students must complete 24 semester hours of general elective courses, which may include business and/or non-business courses. PRST 3010 may be used to satisfy 3 of the required 24 semester hours. At least 21 of these 24 semester hours must be upper-division hours.
Curriculum: Commerce
Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.
Freshman Fall
- ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
- Mathematics (Math) 3 credit hours
- Natural Sciences 4 credit hours
- Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
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