2015-2016 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship
Requirements for the B.B.A.
Core Courses
All business core courses acquaint you with various fields in business and help you learn to communicate, to interact, and to assume responsible positions in your chosen field.
For a major in business administration, you must complete the following courses:
- ACC 212 - Principles of Financial Accounting Credits: 3
- ACC 213 - Principles of Managerial Accounting Credits: 3
- BUS 201 - Legal Environment for Business Credits: 3
- BOTH ECO 210 - Introductory Macroeconomics Credits: 3 AND ECO 211 - Introductory Microeconomics (3 credits) OR ECO 200 - Business Economics (3 credits)
- Upper-division economics course (not ECO 490) Credits: 3
- FIN 320 - Managerial Finance Credits: 3
- MGT 268 - Business Processes and Management Information Systems Credits: 3
- MGT 331 - Concepts of Management Credits: 3
- MGT 366 - Operations Management Credits: 3
- MGT 495 - Administrative Policy Credits: 3
- MKT 350 - Marketing Management Credits: 3
Students are required to select one class from the following list. This course may count toward the major or minor if applicable.
- ACC 333 - Corporate Governance and Accounting Ethics Credits: 3
- ECO 440 - Public Economics and Ethics Credits: 3
- FIN 330 - Ethics in Finance Credits: 3
- MGT 340 - Ethics and Business, Social Justice and Sustainability Credits: 3
- MGT 438 - Business Ethics Credits: 3
- MKT 375 - Marketing Ethics Credits: 3
Required Business Electives
Three upper-division Seidman courses are not applied to the major or minor (nine credits total). However, these courses can be applied toward a second business major.
Electives
Students may elect nonbusiness or business courses to fulfill their elective course requirements. Students may apply up to six hours of internship and independent research credit, in any combination, toward their degree requirements. Business majors may not take any of the major courses, except the internship, on a credit/no credit basis.
Requirements for a Major in Entrepreneurship
Required courses:
- CIS 150 - Introduction to Computing (3 credits)
- STA 215 - Introductory Applied Statistics (3 credits)
- Quantitative Group - choose one:
- MTH 122 - College Algebra (3 credits)
- MTH 125 - Survey of Calculus (3 credits)
- MTH 201 - Calculus I (4 credits)
- PHI 103 - Logic (3 credits)
- MGT 361 - Management Science (3 credits)
Then one option from the creativity courses, three core courses, one option from the application or the practicum courses, one option from the elective courses, and a second Seidman major (excluding General Business and International Business)
One Creativity Course
- LIB 310 - Creativity Credits: 3
- MKT 369 - Creativity in a Cubicle Environment Credits: 3
Three Core Courses
- ENT 350 - Entrepreneurial Business Plan Credits: 3
- MGT 330 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Credits: 3
- MKT 370 - New Product Development Credits: 3
One Application or practicum Course
- BUS 490 - Business Internship Credits: 1 to 6
- ENT 351 - Entrepreneurial Project Credits: 3
One Elective
- ACC 321 - Cost Strategy and Decision Making Credits: 3
- ECO 300 - Applied Economic Analysis Credits: 3
- ECO 342 - Strategic Games Credits: 3
- MGT 345 - Team Building Credits: 3
- MGT 437 - Family Business Credits: 3
- MKT 352 - Marketing Research Credits: 3
- MKT 358 - Advertising and Marketing Communications Credits: 3