- Communicative Proficiency: Students will demonstrate foreign language proficiency in writing, speaking, listening, and reading.
- Analytical Ability: Students will evaluate the ways an international experience impacted their problem solving skills, language ability, and social skills.
- Cultural Understanding: Students will demonstrate an increased understanding of the interconnectedness between language, culture, and its people.
- Acquisition of knowledge: Students will compare the linguistic, political, artistic, and/or social customs of another culture to their experiences in the United States.
- Citizenship: Students will analyze the ways in which an international experience impacted them as global citizens.
Global Business Language Studies (BA)
This program is designed to provide the student of modern languages with a liberal arts education and a core of business courses that will open doors to a career in international business.
Required course work includes the university requirements (see regulation J-3), the general requirements for the B.A. degree, and:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ACCT 2010 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| FL 4010 | SGS Capstone Experience | 1 |
| FLEN 3070 | Institutions of the European Union | 3 |
| or IS 3230 | Global Economic Governance | |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Principles of Macroeconomics | ||
| Principles of Microeconomics | ||
| Foundations of Economic Analysis | ||
| Select three or more courses from the following: | 9 | |
| Managing Information | ||
| Entrepreneurship | ||
| Financial Resources Management | ||
| Introduction to Management | ||
| Marketing | ||
| Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management | ||
| Project Management | ||
| Select 6 credits of Upper-Division Business electives (BUS 1900 also applies to this requirement): | 6 | |
| Select one modern language; elementary and intermediate: | 16 | |
Chinese | ||
French | ||
German | ||
Japanese | ||
Spanish | ||
| Select 21 credits of approved upper-division courses in the same language (including one business course or approved alternative in the target language | 21 | |
| Additionally, all students must take Avant's STAMP (STAndards-based Measurement of Proficiency) exit exam before applying for graduation. | ||
| One of the following: | ||
International Experience (Minimum of 8 weeks) 1 | ||
| Topics in Global Studies | ||
| Total Hours | 62-63 | |
- 1
Studying abroad is highly recommended, and the international experience option may be fulfilled by completing an approved study abroad program or international internship or faculty-led experience or a combination of all. This experience should take place after the student has finished language study through the intermediate (2000) level. The study abroad program or the internship must receive prior approval from the student’s major advisor.
Courses to total 120 credits for this degree
| Fall Term 1 | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 1900 | Integrated Business and Value Creation | 3 |
| ENGL 1101 | Writing and Rhetoric I | 3 |
| Mathematical Ways of Knowing Course | 3 | |
| Oral Communication Course | 3 | |
| CHIN 1010 OR FREN 1101 OR GERM 1101 OR JAPN 1010 OR AIST 1010 OR SPAN 1101 | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring Term 1 | ||
| ACCT 2010 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ENGL 1102 | Writing and Rhetoric II | 3 |
| Elective Course | 2 | |
| CHIN 1020 OR FREN 1102 OR GERM 1102 OR JAPN 1020 OR AIST 1020 OR SPAN 1102 | 4 | |
| ECON 2201 OR ECON 2202 OR ECON 2720 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Fall Term 2 | ||
| Humanistic and Artistic Ways of Knowing Course | 3 | |
| Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing Course | 3 | |
| B.A. Course Requirement | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| CHIN 2010 OR FREN 2010 OR GERM 2010 OR JAPN 2010 OR SPAN 2010 | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring Term 2 | ||
| B.A. Course Requirement | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| Scientific Ways of Knowing Course | 4 | |
| CHIN 2020 OR FREN 2020 OR GERM 2020 OR JAPN 2020 OR SPAN 2020 | 4 | |
| Hours | 14 | |
| Fall Term 3 | ||
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| International Course | 3 | |
| B.A. Course Requirement | 3 | |
| BIA 3500 or ENTR 4140 OR FIN 3010 OR MGT 3110 OR MKTG 3210 OR OM 3700 OR OM 3780 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring Term 3 | ||
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| American Experience Course | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| BIA 3500 OR ENTR 4140 OR FIN 3010 OR MGT 3110 OR MKTG 3210 OR OM 3700 OR OM 3780 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Fall Term 4 | ||
| FLEN 3070 or IS 3230 | Institutions of the European Union or Global Economic Governance | 3 |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| Scientific Ways of Knowing Course | 4 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring Term 4 | ||
| FL 4010 | SGS Capstone Experience | 1 |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Business, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| BIA 3500 OR ENTR 4140 OR FIN 3010 OR MGT 3110 OR MKTG 3210 OR OM 3700 OR OM 3780 | 3 | |
| Hours | 13 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
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