- 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.
Modern Language Business (B.A.)
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 201 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| FL 401 | SGS Capstone Experience | 1 |
| FLEN 307 | Institutions of the European Union | 3 |
| 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 | |
| Entrepreneurship | ||
| Financial Resources Management | ||
| Introduction to Management | ||
| Marketing | ||
| Managing Information | ||
| Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management | ||
| Project Management | ||
| Select 6 credits of Upper-Division Business electives (Business 190 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 (200) 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 190 | Integrated Business and Value Creation | 3 |
| ENGL 101 | Writing and Rhetoric I | 3 |
| Mathematical Ways of Knowing Course | 3 | |
| Oral Communication Course | 3 | |
| CHIN 101 OR FREN 101 OR GERM 101 OR JAPN 101 OR AIST 101 OR SPAN 101 | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring Term 1 | ||
| ACCT 201 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ENGL 102 | Writing and Rhetoric II | 3 |
| Elective Course | 2 | |
| CHIN 102 OR FREN 102 OR GERM 102 OR JAPN 102 OR SPAN 102 | 4 | |
| ECON 201 OR ECON 202 OR ECON 272 | 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 201 OR FREN 201 OR GERM 201 OR JAPN 201 OR SPAN 201 | 4 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring Term 2 | ||
| B.A. Course Requirement | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| Scientific Ways of Knowing Course | 4 | |
| CHIN 202 OR FREN 202 OR GERM 202 OR JAPN 202 OR SPAN 202 | 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 | |
| ENTR 414 OR FIN 301 OR MGT 311 OR MIS 350 OR MKTG 321 OR OM 370 OR OM 378 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring Term 3 | ||
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| American Diversity Course | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| ENTR 414 OR FIN 301 OR MGT 311 OR MIS 350 OR MKTG 321 OR OM 370 OR OM 378 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Fall Term 4 | ||
| FLEN 307 | Institutions of the European Union | 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 401 | SGS Capstone Experience | 1 |
| UPDV Foreign Language, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| UPDV Business, Major Elective Course | 3 | |
| Elective Course | 3 | |
| ENTR 414 OR FIN 301 OR MGT 311 OR MIS 350 OR MKTG 321 OR OM 370 OR OM 378 | 3 | |
| Hours | 13 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
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