Finance (B.A.)

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Foundations

The Department of Economics and Business offers four distinct majors: accounting, business administration, economics and finance. Students majoring in business administration may also elect to complete a concentration in international business, management, or marketing. Students may choose only one 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:

ECB 101 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 4
ECB 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 4
ECB 211 - Statistics in Business and Economics Credits: 4
ECB 311 - Intermediate Microeconomics Credits: 4

One of the following courses or equivalent validation:

MAT 134 - Survey of Calculus Credits: 4
MAT 141 - Calculus I Credits: 4

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 the 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:

ECB 117 - Principles of Accounting I Credits: 4
ECB 118 - Principles of Accounting II Credits: 4
ECB 247 - Financial Management Credits: 4
ECB 320 - Business Law Credits: 4
ECB 330 - Financial Markets and Institutions Credits: 4
ECB 355 - Risk Management and Insurance Credits: 4
ECB 372 - Investment Analysis Credits: 4
ECB 467 - Advanced Corporate Finance Credits: 4
ECB 492 - Senior Seminar: Management, Strategy and Ethics Credits: 4

An additional 8 credits of elective courses from the approved list below:

ECB 245 - Principles of Management Credits: 4
ECB 277 - Principles of Marketing Credits: 4
ECB 305 - Economic Development Credits: 4
ECB 313 - Econometrics Credits: 4
ECB 324 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Credits: 4
ECB 356 - Personal Financial Planning Credits: 4
ECB 362 - Cost Accounting Credits: 4
ECB 364 - Federal Income Taxation Credits: 4
ECB 366 - International Economics Credits: 4
ECB 369 - International Capitalisms: Asia, U.S. and Europe Credits: 2
ECB 374 - Small Business Management Credits: 4
ECB 471 - Research I Credits: 4

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.