International Business Studies Certificate
The International Business Studies Certificate provides undergraduate students with an educational foundation in the field of international business. Certificate requirements include the study of cultural, economic, social, and political aspects affecting business operations.
Students are required to complete degree requirements specified for a business administration major in order to be awarded the International Business Studies Certificate. In addition, students must complete all certificate requirements as specified below.
Business Administration requirements
Business core
| BA 101 | Introduction to Business and World Affairs | 4 |
| BA 205 | Business Communications Using Technology | 4 |
| BA 211 | Fundamentals of Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BA 213 | Decision Making with Accounting Information | 4 |
| BA 301 | Research and Analysis of Business Problems | 4 |
| BA 302 | Organizational Behavior | 4 |
| BA 303 | Business Finance | 4 |
| BA 311 | Marketing Management | 4 |
| BA 325 | Competing with Information Technology | 4 |
| BA 339 | Operations and Quality Management | 4 |
| BA 385 | Business Environment | 4 |
| BA 495 | Business Strategy | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 50 |
International business requirements
Three of the following:
| Fin 456 | International Financial Management | 4 |
| Mktg 376 | International Business | 4 |
| Mgmt 446 | Principles of International Management | 4 |
| Mktg 466 | Principles of International Marketing | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
or other courses approved by advisor.
Business option requirements
Choose from: Accounting, Advertising Management, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management and Leadership, Marketing, and Supply and Logistics Management.
International Business Studies Certificate students are encouraged to spend one or more terms studying abroad or in an overseas internship program. Several such programs are available through the School of Business Administration.
Requirements outside the School of Business Administration
Foreign language (two-year proficiency)
Economics courses (two courses) selected from:
| Ec 340 | International Economics | 4 |
| Ec 440 | International Trade Theory and Policy | 4 |
| Ec 441 | International Monetary Theory and Policy | 4 |
| Ec 442 | The Multinational Enterprise in the World Economy | 4 |
| Ec 445 | Comparative Economic Systems | 4 |
| Ec 446 | Institutional Economics | 4 |
| Ec 447 | Economics of Transition | 4 |
| Ec 450 | Economics of Development | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
or with approval other upper-division economics courses related to international studies.
Area studies—four courses from the following departments:
Anthropology, geography, history, political science or other approved courses from the Global Perspectives Upper Division Cluster list.
The area study courses will be upper-division (except PS 205) and must contribute to the student’s understanding of the area of the foreign language being studied. The Global Perspectives Cluster is the approved area study course list. Permission to take an area study course not found on the approved list can be received from your academic advisor.