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Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2015-2016 
    
Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Finance (B.A.)


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Foundations


The Department of Economics and Business offers four distinct majors: accounting, business administration, economics and finance. Within the business major it is possible to earn an international business concentration. Additionally, the department jointly sponsors with the Political Science Department the international affairs major (see Interdisciplinary/Off-Campus Programs ).

All students majoring in accounting, business administration, economics or finance are required to take the following courses:

One of the following courses or equivalent validation:


Requirements


The finance major utilizes foundational and elective courses from both accounting and economics to develop the tools and understandings essential to competent financial theory and practice. This knowledge base is extended and specialized to the finance discipline through study of international capital markets and financial institutions, financial planning and control, capital budgeting and development of capital resources, culminating in the senior-level ECB 467 - Advanced Corporate Finance . The two elective courses allow students to emphasize either corporate finance or financial markets/institutions.

Completing the finance major requires at most 64 credits in total. Required courses in addition to the Foundations are:

Graduate Studies


Students interested in graduate work in finance should elect:

Note


MAT 318  - MAT 319  also waives ECB 211 .

Students must continuously maintain a 2.0 GPA within the major.

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