Basic Curriculum for All College of Business and Technology B.B.A. Majors

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General Education Requirements: 41 Credit Hours

Listed below are the categories and courses specified under East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees General Education Requirements. Note that certain courses are required for this degree, specific to this major. Thus, these courses will satisfy both a General Education requirement AND a requirement of this major. (Other majors may require different General Education courses.) Where specific courses are required for this major, only those courses are listed under the category. If there are no specific major requirements for a category, all course options appear.

Communication

9 credits, consisting of 6 credits of written composition and 3 credits of oral communication.

Written Composition

Complete both of the following:

ENGL 1010 - Critical Reading and Expository Writing (3 credits)
ENGL 1020 - Critical Thinking and Argumentation (3 credits)
Students eligible to enroll in ENGL 1010 must do so during their first term at ETSU. Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020.

Oral Communication

Complete one of the following:

SPCH 1300 - Introduction to Communication Studies (3 credits)
SPCH 2300 - Public Speaking (3 credits)
SPCH 2320 - Argumentation and Debate (3 credits)

Humanities and Fine Arts

9 credits, consisting of 3 credits of literature, 3 credits of fine arts, and 3 credits of humanities electives.

Literature

Complete one of the following:

ENGL 2030 - Literary Heritage (3 credits)
ENGL 2110 - American Literature I (3 credits)
ENGL 2120 - American Literature II (3 credits)
ENGL 2210 - British Literature I (3 credits)
ENGL 2220 - British Literature II (3 credits)
ENGL 2330 - World Literature (3 credits)
ENGL 2430 - European Literature (3 credits)

Fine Arts

Complete one of the following:

ARTH 2010 - Art History Survey I (3 credits)
ARTH 2020 - Art History Survey II (3 credits)
DANC 1500 - Dance as a Human Experience (3 credits)
HUMT 2310 - Arts and Ideas I (3 credits)
HUMT 2320 - Arts and Ideas II (3 credits)
MUSC 1030 - Introduction to Music (3 credits)
MUSC 1035 - History of Jazz (3 credits)
THEA 1030 - Introduction to the Theatre (3 credits)

Humanities Electives

Complete one of the following:

ENGL 3150 - Literature, Ethics, and Values (3 credits)
ENGL 3280 - Mythology (3 credits)
ENTC 3020 - Technology and Society (3 credits)
HIST 1110 - World History to 1500 (3 credits)
HIST 1120 - World History Since 1500 (3 credits)
PHIL 1030 - Introduction to Philosophy (3 credits)
PHIL 2020 - Introduction to Ethics (3 credits)
PHIL 2040 - Philosophy as Conversation (3 credits)
PHIL 2640 - Science and the Modern World (3 credits)
RELI 2210 - Introduction to the Study of World Religions (3 credits)

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Complete both of the following:

ECON 2210 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)
ECON 2220 - Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)

History

6 credits, consisting of both of the following:

HIST 2010 - American History I (U.S.) (TN eCampus) (3 credits)
HIST 2020 - The United States since 1877 (3 credits)
Note: HIST 2030 History of Tennessee (3 credits) may be substituted for 3 credits of United States History.

Natural Sciences

8 credits, consisting of two of the following (required labs are shown with the lecture numbers):

ASTR 1010 - Astronomy I (4 credits)
ASTR 1020 - Astronomy II (4 credits)
ASTR 1035 - Life in the Universe (4 credits)
BIOL 1110 - Biology for Science Majors Lecture I (4 credits)
BIOL 1111 - Biology for Science Majors Laboratory I (0 credit)
BIOL 1120 - Biology for Science Majors Lecture II (4 credits)
BIOL 1121 - Biology for Science Majors Laboratory II (0 credit)
BIOL 1130 - Biology for Science Majors Lecture III (4 credits)
BIOL 1131 - Biology for Science Majors Laboratory III (0 credit)
CHEM 1110 - General Chemistry Lecture I (4 credits)
CHEM 1111 - General Chemistry Laboratory I (0 credit)
CHEM 1120 - General Chemistry Lecture II (4 credits)
CHEM 1121 - General Chemistry Laboratory II (0 credit)
GEOG 1120 - Earth Science: Landforms and Processes (4 credits)
GEOL 1040 - Geosciences: Earth and Society Lecture (3 credits)
GEOL 1041 - Geosciences: Earth and Society Laboratory (1 credit)
GEOL 1050 - Geosciences: Earth through Time Lecture (3 credits)
HSCI 2010 - Anatomy and Physiology I (4 credits)
HSCI 2011 - Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory I (0 credit)
HSCI 2020 - Anatomy and Physiology II (4 credits)
HSCI 2021 - Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory II (0 credit)
PHYS 2010 - General Physics I-Noncalculus (3 credits)
PHYS 2011 - General Physics Laboratory I-Noncalculus (1 credit)
PHYS 2020 - General Physics II-Noncalculus (3 credits)
PHYS 2021 - General Physics Laboratory II-Noncalculus (1 credit)
PHYS 2110 - Technical Physics I-Calculus Based (5 credits)
PHYS 2120 - Technical Physics II-Calculus Based (5 credits)
Open to nonscience majors only:
BIOL 1010 - Biology for Non-majors I (4 credits)
BIOL 1011 - Biology for Non-majors Laboratory (0 credit)
BIOL 1020 - Biology for Non-majors II (4 credits)
BIOL 1021 - Biology for Non-majors Laboratory II (0 credit)
BIOL 1310 - Concepts in Biology (4 credits)
BIOL 1311 - Concepts in Biology Laboratory (0 credit)
CHEM 1000 - Chemistry and Well-Being (4 credits)
CHEM 1030 - Introduction to Chemistry Survey (4 credits)
PHYS 1030 - Introduction to Physics Survey (4 credits)

Mathematics

Students required to enroll in learning support in math must do so during their first term of enrollment or at ETSU, unless they are also required to enroll in learning support in reading, in which case they must take learning support in math immediately upon completing learning support in reading.

MATH 1530 - Probability and Statistics – Noncalculus (3 credits)

B.B.A. Core Requirements: 36 Credit Hours

ACCT 2010 - Principles of Accounting I (3 credits)
ACCT 2020 - Principles of Accounting II (3 credits)
ECON 2070 - Quantitative Methods for Business I (3 credits)
ECON 2080 - Quantitative Methods for Business II (3 credits)
MGMT 3000 - Organizational Behavior and Management (3 credits)
MGMT 3050 - Decision Science (3 credits)
MGMT 3310 - Legal Environment of Business (3 credits)
MKTG 3200 - Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
FNCE 3220 - Business Finance (3 credits)
MGMT 3100 - Production/Operations Management (3 credits)
MGMT 4910 - Strategic Management (3 credits)
MGMT 3220 - Management Information Systems (3 credits) or
CSCI 3700 - Management Information Systems (3 credits)

Electives: 16 Credit Hours

Major: 24-27 Credit Hours

Additional Information:

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Note:

Students in the Merchandising Concentration will not have the elective requirements stated above.