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Planning Your Schedule |
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On this page you will find academic information to assist you in planning your academic schedules. You may then decide to discuss with an academic advisor during an academic advising appointment.
When doing an academic plan, which is a course schedule for several semesters or through graduation, it may be helpful to split your coursework into two segments -- the courses taken before and after admission to a business major.
Prior to admission to a business major, students focus on university core (also called general education), college pre-major requirements, specifically required classes for business majors and prerequisites to pre-major requirements. After admission to a business major, students focus on upper-division business core, specific major courses, remaining university core and non-business electives.
When planning your course schedule, it is beneficial to plan for several semesters as one time. This helps you ensure you will satisfy course prerequisites in time for subsequent courses.
One approach to course planning is to plan backwards, checking course prerequisites for the courses with the highest course numbers. The theory is that the higher the course number the more prerequisites that exist for that courses.
For example, BUS 496 is the college's capstone course. This course must be taken in the final semester, and it requires minimum C grades in FIN 301, IS 301, MGT 301 and MKT 301. Prior to taking this courses students must also submit a Capstone Authroization Form. Therefore, when doing an academic plan, place BUS 496 in your final semester. You will then list the four prerequisite courses for preceeding semesters. Each of those four classes requires admission to a business major as well as specific courses.
See below for a progression to BUS 496, following the sequence of courses required for FIN 301, which is only one of several prerequisites for BUS 496.
BUS 496
- requires FIN 301 with a minimum C grade.
- Which requires ACC 201, ACC 202 and ECON 261 with minimum C grades, as well as admission to a business major.
- ECON 261 requires a minimum C grade in MATH 124.
- ACC 202 requires a minimum C grade in ACC 201.
- ACC 201 requires sophomore standing.
Here is an example for ECON 261. Depending on the student, three semesters of coursework may be necessary before registering for ECON 261.
ECON 261
- requires MATH 124 with a minimum C grade
- MATH 124 requires placement into the class based on SAT/ACT scores or MATH 96 with a minimum C grade
- MATH 96 requires placement into the class based on SAT/ACT scores or MATH 95 with a minimum C grade
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