Bachelor of Business Administration in General Business draft
Program Overview
The degree of Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in General Business requires successful completion of 120 hours including (1) the UCA Core: complete 38 hours to meet lower-division UCA Core requirements and complete upper-division UCA Core requirements using designated BBA foundation, core, and major courses; (2) the BBA foundation and core requirements; (3) the major requirements listed below; and (4) electives to bring the total credit hours to 120. Note that the General Business degree is not to be combined with other College of Business majors as a double or triple major, unless approved by both the Department Chair of the major discipline and the College of Business Dean.
Mathematics Pathways: First-time, first-year students majoring in General Business enter the College Algebra Mathematics Pathway and must enroll in MATH 1390 during their first year of study, unless they have already been awarded credit for MATH 1390.
Program Outline
The general business major requires eight upper-division courses in at least three different teaching areas in the College of Business, including Accounting (ACCT), Economics (ECON), Finance (FINA), Insurance and Risk Management (INSU), Computer Information Systems and Analytics (CISA), Marketing (MKTG), or Management (MGMT).
Minor in General Business (24 hours)
Not open to any business majors. The minor in General Business requires the following courses:
- ACCT 2310 Principles of Accounting I
- ACCT 2311 Principles of Accounting II
- ECON 2320 Macroeconomics
- ECON 2321 Microeconomics
Choose four additional business courses (12 hours); two of these courses must be upper-division (3000 or 4000 level). Three of these four courses must be from three different business disciplines. These disciplines include Finance (FINA), Insurance (INSU), Management (MGMT), Marketing (MKTG), and Computer Information Systems and Analytics (CISA). The fourth course may be from any business discipline including the five above but also Accounting (ACCT) or Economics (ECON).
Note: CISA 2330 and other statistics courses may be used as prerequisites for business courses but may not be used as a course in the General Business minor.