Lower-Division Requirements

The School of Business Administration gives some specific advice about lower-division courses. Anyone interested in Business should take Accounting 131. The following courses are particularly recommended by the School of Business for satisfying lower-division requirements: Group 3: Math 105 and 106, Statistics 100 or 110 and one upper-division C course; Group 5: History 101 and Anthropology 100 or Geography 160; Group 7: Economics 111 and 112 and Communication Sciences 102 or 105; Group 8: Psychology 132 and one lab science.

Prerequisites

Most Management courses require MGMT 201, Managerial and Interpersonal Behavior, as a prerequisite. MGMT 201 has as prerequisites Accounting 131, Economics 111 and 112, English 105 and 109, Mathematics 106 or 111 or 114 or 116, and Statistics 100 or 110. Similarly, most Marketing courses require MKTG 201, which has the same prerequisites, and most Finance courses require FNCE 201, which has the same prerequisites. Most Operations and Information Management courses require OPIM 203C, which has Accounting 131 as a prerequisite, and is open to non-majors only by permission. Most Health Systems Management courses require HSMG 280 and various OPIM courses as prerequisites.

Business as a Related Field

You can put business courses together to form a related field for your English major. Courses which do not have prerequisites, and might be used in related fields for English majors, include:

Business Law

BLAW 271 (Business Law, case law approach) serves as prerequisite for BLAW 272 (Business Law, focus on sales and negotiable instruments) and BLAW 273 (Business Law, focus on agencies, partnerships, and corporations). Either BLAW 271 or BLAW 275 (Business, Law and Society) can serve as prerequisite for BLAW 274 (Real Estate Law) and BLAW 280 (International Business Law).

Management

The following Management courses have no prerequisites:

MGMT 203 (Development of American Business), MGMT 245 (Managerial Behavior in Cross-Cultural Settings), MGMT 265 (The Dynamics of Organization), MGMT 281 Corporate Social Responsibility).

Finance

FNCE 221 (Risk and Insurance), FNCE 223 (Employee Benefits and Pensions), FNCE 224 (Social Insurance), FNCE 225 (Life Insurance, FNCE 221 recommended).

Real Estate

FNCE 230 (Real Estate Decision-Making), FNCE 232 (Income Property Valuation), FNCE 233 (Real Estate Finance, Investments and Taxation), FNCE 234 (Real Estate Market Analysis, FNCE 230 prerequisite).

OTHER USEFUL RELATED COURSES

A related field (four 200-level courses) can be taken in one of the fields listed below, or put together from two or more of them.

Communications Sciences

COMS 205 (Interpersonal Communication, prerequisite COMS 102), COMS 206W (Global Communication, prerequisite COMS 135), COMS 209 (Cross-Cultural Communication, prerequisite COMS 205), COMS 210 (Persuasion, prerequisite COMS 102).

Economics

Note that ECON 111 and 112 or 113 are a prerequisite for all upper-level Economics courses.

ECON 230 (Money and Banking), ECON 231 (Special Problems in Money and Banking), ECON 242 (International Trade), ECON 243 (International Finance), ECON 267 (Organization of Industry), ECON 274 (Labor Economics).

Psychology 268 Industrial Psychology, prerequisite PSYC 133

Sociology 274 Work and Occupations

Sociology 275 Collective Bargaining

Women's Studies 264 Gender in the Workplace

Languages are increasingly important in the global business environment. If at all possible, it is advisable to continue the study of a language begun in high school. 200-level courses can be used as a related field, and courses in French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish can be used both toward a related field and toward satisfaction of the Group 4 and Group 5 requirements. Language courses that are particularly desirable for business are French 211 (Contemporary France), French 215 (Practical Translation), French 217 (Business French), German 231-32 (Commercial German), German 282 (Connecticut and the Global Market), and Spanish 270 (Business Spanish).

SUGGESTED ENGLISH COURSES

In addition to the courses required for the major, the following are particularly useful to students with an interest in business: ENGL 249W Advanced Expository Writing, ENGL 296 Writing Practicum (Grammar), ENGL 297 Writing Internship (an internship in a business environment is strongly recommended).