Major in General Business

(major code: 302).

The general business major allows students to customize their major based on their career interest. Students select 3 topical areas within the COB (from 8 choices) and then take 3 upper-level courses in each of those 3 areas. The result is a generalist degree that prepares students for either their own entrepreneurial pursuits or the corporate world.

University Core Curriculum Requirements

Refer to the “ University Core Curriculum   ” section of this catalog. Students must take ECON 2301   , MATH 1324   , and COMM 1321    (preferred) or COMM 1315   .

B.B.A. Degree Requirements

Business core. (See the B.B.A. core, in the “ Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree Core Requirements   ” section of the catalog.)

General Business Core Requirements

  • MGT 4311 - Business Ethics and Society 3 or
  • FIN 4311 - Corporate Governance and Ethics 3
  • BUSI 3319 - International Business 3 or
  • MGT 4335 - International Management 3

Subject Areas

Nine hours are required from each of three areas of study (to total 27 hours; at least 21 hours must be upper level).

Areas of study are:

  • Accounting (ACCT)
  • Economics (ECON)
  • Finance (FIN)
  • Management (MGT)
  • Marketing (MKT)
  • Business Law & Communications (BUSI)
  • Computer Information Systems (CIDM)
  • Supply Chain Management (nine hours from CIDM 3342   ,  CIDM 4331   ,  CIDM 4343    or MGT 4343   , , CIDM 3390    or  MGT 3390   ,  CIDM 4310   ,  CIDM 4358   ,  CIDM 4388   , FIN 4325   )

Additional credit hours to total 120 hours.

General Business with a Specialization in Health Care Management

Students may use the general business major to create a specialization in health care management.

Students must take 18 hours from:

  • BUSI 4370 - Legal Aspects of Health Care 3
  • CIDM 3320 - Digital Communications and Collaboration 3
  • CIDM 4331 - Production and Operations Management 3
  • CIDM 4370 - Health Informatics and E-Medicine 3
  • ECON 4301 - Industrial Organization and Regulation 3
  • ECON 4370 - Economics of Health Care 3
  • FIN 3335 - Processes of Risk Management 3
  • FIN 4325 - Financial Analysis with Technology Applications 3
  • FIN 4326 - Financial Management 3
  • FIN 4370 - Health Care Finance 3
  • MGT 4330 - Critical Issues in Human Resources Management 3
  • MGT 4370 - Health Care Management 3
  • MKT 3342 - Consumer Behavior 3
  • MKT 4346 - Sales Management 3

Advanced management electives:

Nine additional hours of advanced electives in management will complete the 27 hours required for this specialization.  

General Business with a Specialization in Entrepreneurship/Small Business

Students may use the general business major to create a specialization in entrepreneurship and small business management.

Students must take 27 hours from:

  • ACCT 3331 - Intermediate Accounting I 3
  • ACCT 3332 - Intermediate Accounting II 3
  • ACCT 3375 - Accounting Information Systems 3
  • BUSI 4330 - Employment Law 3
  • CIDM 4388 - Enterprise Resource Planning 3
  • MGT 3332 - New Venture Creation 3
  • MGT 3333 - Small Business Management 3
  • MGT 3390 - Project Management 3
  • MGT 4336 - Leadership Development 3
  • MKT 3346 - Personal Selling and Sales Promotion 3
  • MKT 3348 - Marketing Research 3
  • MKT 3350 - Evolutionary Marketing 3
  • MKT 4342 - Principles of Advertising 3
  • MKT 4343 - Emerging Media in Advertising 3

General Business with a Specialization in International Business

Students may use the general business major to create a specialization in international business. This specialization has a total of 122 credit hours.

Required courses:

  • POSC 4370 - International Relations 3 or
  • POSC 4374 - International Law and Organization 3
  • ECON 4341 - International Economics 3 or
  • ECON 4342 - Economic Development 3
  • FIN 4323 - International Finance 3
  • MGT 4335 - International Management 3 or
  • MGT 4333 - Diversity and Cross Cultural Management 3
  • MKT 4340 - International Marketing 3

Three hours elective from History or Political Science

(Choose one course.)

  • HIST 4096 - Readings 1-3
  • HIST 4325 - Vietnam: The American Perspective 3
  • HIST 4332 - Polish History, Culture and Society 3
  • HIST 4333 - The Many Faces of Russia: Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation 3
  • HIST 4335 - The Fall of Eagles: The History of World War One 3
  • HIST 4337 - Nazi Germany 3
  • HIST 4350 - Modern China, 1800 to Present 3
  • HIST 4352 - Modern Japan, 1868 to Present 3
  • HIST 4354 - World War II in Asia 3
  • HIST 4357 - Age of the Samurai 3
  • HIST 4358 - Huns, Turks, Mongols: History of the Steppe 3
  • HIST 4361 - Empire 3
  • HIST 4362 - Topics in Latin American History 3
  • POSC 4096 - Readings 1-3
  • POSC 4369 - American National Security 3
  • POSC 4370 - International Relations 3
  • POSC 4371 - American Foreign Policy 3
  • POSC 4372 - Nuclear Weapons and World Politics 3
  • POSC 4376 - Former Soviet Union: Domestic and Foreign Policies 3
  • POSC 4378 - Asian Governments and Politics 3
  • POSC 4380 - European Parliamentary Governments 3
  • POSC 4381 - North American Governments 3

Nine hours of upper-level courses:

from one area of study (ACCT, BUSI, CIDM, ECON, FIN, MGT, or MKT).

Eight hours in a foreign language.

Business education emphasis.

The Department of Management, Marketing and General Business works with the Department of Education to provide course work leading to a general business major with secondary teacher certification. By combining requirements for courses in the general business major with courses required for education certification, students will be prepared to teach in the business education curriculum as established by the State Board of Education Certification. Students will need to consult the appropriate adviser in the Department of Education to ensure that courses selected will meet major and certification requirements.

Students can access degree checklists for the business education emphasis by using the URL listed below, selecting “Teaching Certification” and scrolling to the area for business: wtamu.edu/academic/ess/edu .

Advising Services Degree Checklists and Curriculum Guides

The following degree checklists and curriculum guides (suggested course sequence) are available by linking to Advising Services Degree Checklists :

  • General Business B.B.A.
  • General Business - Entrepreneurship/Small Business Specialization B.B.A.
  • General Business - Health Care Management Specialization B.B.A.
  • General Business - International Business Specialization B.B.A.
  • General Business Secondary Teacher Certification

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