Commerce, B.S.

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following course required by the program meets True Blue Core requirements:

• ECON 2410  or ECON 2420  (HSSR)

Commerce Common Body of Knowledge (31 hours)

All students must complete the Commerce Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) which requires 31 hours.

• ACTG 3000 - Survey of Accounting for General Business 3 credit hours
• BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
• BUS 4000 - Senior Seminar in Commerce 1 credit hour (must be taken last semester)
• FIN 3010 - Principles of Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
• INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
• MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
• MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
• BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours

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• ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours OR
• ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours (either or both may be counted in the True Blue Core)

Business Electives (24 hours)

All students must complete 24 semester hours of business elective courses (chosen from courses with ACTG, BCED, BIA, BLAW, BUS, CYBM, 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.

Freshman Fall

• Written Communication 3 credit hours
• Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
• Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
• Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
• Elective 3 credit hours

Freshman Spring

• Information Literacy 3 credit hours
• Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
• Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
• Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
• Elective 3 credit hours

Sophomore Fall

• ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours OR
• ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours

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• Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
• Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
• History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
• Elective 3 credit hours

Sophomore Spring

• BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 3 credit hours OR
• MATH 1530 - Applied Statistics 3 credit hours OR
• Equivalent statistics course 3 credit hours

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• Electives 6 credit hours
• Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
• History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours

Junior Fall

• ACTG 3000 - Survey of Accounting for General Business 3 credit hours
• BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours
• FIN 3010 - Principles of Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
• INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours

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• BCED 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours OR
• BUS 3000 - The Dale Carnegie Course 3 credit hours OR
• MGMT 3620 - Supply Chain Operations 3 credit hours

Junior Spring

• BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
• MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
• MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
• Business electives 6 credit hours

Senior Fall

• PRST 3010 - Prior Learning Assessment 3 credit hours OR
• Elective 3 credit hours

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• Elective 3 credit hours
• Upper-division business electives 9 credit hours

Senior Spring

• BUS 4000 - Senior Seminar in Commerce 1 credit hour
• Elective 3 credit hours
• Upper-division business electives 9 credit hours