SAM AND IRENE BLACK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Curriculum for Finance Majors

A minimum of 120 credits is required for the Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. Students must earn a grade of C or better in each 300- and 400-level course.

An 18-credit Finance minor also is offered; an adviser can help students select appropriate coursework.

A typical schedule for a first-semester Finance major includes Rhetoric and Composition or Honors Freshman Composition; Techniques of Calculus or Calculus with Analytical Geometry I; one general education course each in the humanities, natural sciences, and arts; and a 1-credit First Year Seminar. 

Second semester courses generally include arts, humanities, and natural science general education requirements; Principles of Programming with Business Applications (a management information systems course); and health or kinesiology.


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Updated November 27, 2007
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