Program Overview

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration: Concentration in Finance

The Finance concentration teaches students to recognize, understand, and attain the skills necessary to be successful in the world of finance. It focuses on the financial decisions made in every organization, which include investment, decisions in purchasing and selling real and financial assets, raising cash to fund these investments, and managing the risk of its assets and investments.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Students have basic competencies in business-related disciplines.
   • Students will demonstrate discipline‐based knowledge in accounting, economics, finance, information systems, international business, management, marketing, operations, and statistics;
   • Students will demonstrate the ability to integrate the knowledge of different functional areas into effective business solutions.
2. Students demonstrate effective communication skills.
   • Students will create well‐written documents on a business topic;
   • Students will deliver an effective oral presentation on a business topic.
3. Students demonstrate the ability to analyze business situations.
   • Students will solve business problems using appropriate quantitative and analytical techniques;
   • Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze alternatives in a business context;
   • Students will demonstrate the ability to articulate and defend a course of action;
   • Students will apply appropriate information systems and technologies to solve business problems.
4. Students demonstrate the ability to work effectively in diverse teams that embrace equality and inclusion.
   • Students contribute effectively to accomplishing teams' goals;
   • Students leverage diverse viewpoints by communicating effectively and respectfully with teammates from different backgrounds;
   • Students demonstrate the ability to be effective team leaders.
5. Students demonstrate the ability to solve business problems with ethical and environmental implications.
   • Students identify the ethical dilemmas inherent in the operation of a business and explore company performance from a triple bottom line perspective: social, environmental, and financial;
   • Students demonstrate ethical decision-making and analytical skills through cases and projects that focus on each of the stakeholder categories and identify sustainable solutions that account for a triple bottom line.
6. Students demonstrate the ability to develop global business solutions through analyzing legal, political, social, and cultural factors.

Degree Requirements

• 69 Units Minimum
• Except in cases of credit by examination, no more than 6 units of the core may be completed on a CR/NC basis.
• Students must earn a grade of C- or better in core Business courses required as prerequisites for other core Business courses.
• All concentration courses must be taken on a letter-grade basis. Students must have a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in all concentration courses.

Prerequisite Courses

• Select One: DS 110, MATH 107 & MATH 108, or MATH 110
• ECON 101: Introduction to Microeconomic Analysis
• ISYS 263: Introduction to Information Systems or a passing score on the ISYS 263 CLEP Exam

Core Requirements

• ACCT 100: Introduction to Financial Accounting
• ACCT 101: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• Select One: BUS 300GW or DS 660GW
• BUS 682: Seminar on Business and Society
• BUS 690: Seminar in Business Policy and Strategic Management
• Select One: DS 212 or MATH 124
• DS 412: Operations Management
• ECON 102: Introduction to Macroeconomic Analysis
• FIN 350: Business Finance
• IBUS 330: International Business and Multicultural Relations
• ISYS 363: Information Systems for Management
• MGMT 405: Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior
• MKTG 431: Principles of Marketing

Concentration Requirements

• Select One: FIN 351 or FIN 357
• FIN 353: Financial Institutions
• FIN 355: Investments
• FIN 536: International Finance

Electives

• Select three from the following:
  • FIN 303: Accounting for Financial Analysis
  • FIN 351: Financial Management
  • FIN 357: Financial Statement and Data Analysis
  • FIN 365: Real Estate Principles
  • FIN 370: Fundamentals of Real Estate
  • FIN 371: Commercial Real Estate Financial Management
  • FIN 372: Commercial Leasing and Development
  • FIN 420: Introduction to FinTech
  • FIN/I R/PLSI 435: Politics of Global Finance and Crisis
  • FIN 460: Mathematics and Programming for Financial Analytics
  • FIN 465: Financial Engineering
  • FIN 470: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance
  • FIN 510: Real Estate Practice and Financial Technology
  • FIN 511: Real Estate Finance and Technology
  • FIN 520: FinTech II: DeFi, Business Blockchain, and Machine Learning
  • FIN 530: Financial Analytics
  • FIN/ECON/ENVS 651: Student Managed Fund in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investments
  • FIN 653: Seminar in Bank Management
  • FIN 655: Alternative Investment
  • FIN 658: Financial Risk Management
  • FIN 659: Special Topics in Finance
  • FIN 699: Independent Study
  • BUS 350: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  • DS 312: Data Analysis with Computer Applications
  • DS 408: Computer Simulation
  • DS 411: Decision Modeling for Business
  • DS 601: Applied Management Science
  • DS 604: Applied Business Forecasting
  • DS 612: Data Mining with Business Applications
  • ISYS 464: Managing Enterprise Data
  • ISYS 569: Information Systems for Business Process Management
  • ISYS 650: Business Intelligence

General Education Requirements

• Oral Communication: 3 units
• Written English Communication: 3 units
• Critical Thinking: 3 units
• Physical Science: 3 units
• Life Science: 3 units
• Lab Science: 1 unit
• Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning: 3 units
• Arts: 3 units
• Humanities: 3 units
• Arts or Humanities: 3 units
• Social Sciences: 3 units
• Social Sciences: US History: 3 units
• Lifelong Learning and Self-Development (LLD): 3 units
• Ethnic Studies: 3 units
• Physical and/or Life Science: 3 units
• Arts and/or Humanities: 3 units
• Social Sciences: 3 units
• SF State Studies:
  • American Ethnic and Racial Minorities: 3 units
  • Environmental Sustainability: 3 units
  • Global Perspectives: 3 units
  • Social Justice: 3 units

First-Time Student Roadmap (4 Year)

The roadmaps presented are intended as suggested plans of study and do not replace meeting with an advisor.

Transfer Student Roadmaps

For students with an AS-T in Business Administration with 18 units in the major satisfied. For students with an AS-T in Business Administration with 15 units in the major satisfied.

General Advising Information for Transfer Students

1. Before transfer, complete as many lower-division requirements or electives for this major as possible.
2. The following courses are not required for admission but are required for graduation. Students are strongly encouraged to complete these units before transfer; doing so will provide more flexibility in course selection after transfer.
   • A course in U.S. History
   • A course in U.S. & California Government

Previous Bulletins

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