International Business and Language B.A.

Program Chairpersons: Jack McElwee and Andrea Labinger

The goals of this program are to increase students' ability to communicate with people of other cultures in a business context, to provide language students with career opportunities in international business, to enable business students to function more efficiently in a cross-cultural environment, and to make students more competent as professionals and more productive as citizens of the world. French or Spanish may be chosen as the language.

Prerequisites: Two years of college-level French or Spanish, or a passing ULV test score (4,4,4,4) ACCT 201 Fundamentals of Accounting I (4) BUS 220 Economic Analysis I (4)

Core Requirements:
Commercial French or Spanish (4)
A 300-level course in the target language (4)
BUS 360 Principles of Marketing (4)
BUS 466 International Marketing (4)
ECON 324 Comparative Economic Systems (4)
ECON 325 International Economics (4)
MGMT 300 Principles of Management (4)
MGMT451 International Management (4)
REL 300 World Religions: West, or
REL 305 World Religions: East, or
REL 370 History of Christianity (3-4)
PLSC 351 International Relations (4)
PLSC 301 American Government and Politics , or
PLSC 452 Comparative Government and Politics (3-4)
BUS 496 Business Seminar, or
FREN or SPAN 499 Senior Project (3-4)

Electives: A minimum of three 300- or 400-level courses, 3-4 semester hours each, chosen with the approval of the program chairpersons.