The plan listed below is designed to provide suggestions for sequencing your major courses, but there are also other ways to sequence most majors. This plan is meant to provide aid in early, provisional planning. Please consult with your academic advisor to make strategic academic decisions about which courses to take each semester.
Sample Two Year Plan: Business Administration (BA/BS), Marketing Track
This plan assumes an Associate of Arts (AA) degree received and that the following classes having been completed with a grade of "C" or better, prior to enrolling at Truman State University:
- ENG 190: Writing as Critical Thinking
- COMM 170: Public Speaking
- STAT 190: Basic Statistics
- Math through calculus
- Foreign Language that completes Truman’s requirement of Elementary Proficiency
- BSAD 153: Into to Business Data Analytics
- A class where Microsoft Excel skills are taught (note: students will need to pass an Excel competency test to demonstrate their Excel skills)
- ACCT 220: Intro to Financial Accounting
- ACCT 221: Intro to Management Accounting
- BSAD 234: Legal Environment of Business
- ECON 200: Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 201: Principles of Microeconomics
FALL - Semester 1
- BSAD 325: Principles of Marketing (3 cr)
- BSAD 329: Principles of Finance (3 cr)
- BSAD 349: Organizational Behavior (3 cr)
- DATA 222: Data Science (3 cr)
SPRING - Semester 2
- JINS 3XX: WE/Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar (3 cr)
- ECON 300: Intermediate Microeconomics (3 cr)
- BSAD 352: Operations Management (3 cr)
- BSAD 365: Consumer Behavior (spring only) (3 cr)
- Statistics prerequisite for BSAD 360 (STAT 375 OR STAT 376 OR STAT 378) (3 cr)
FALL - Semester 3
- BSAD 360: Marketing Research (fall only) (3 cr)
- BSAD 353: Information Management & Data Analytics (3 cr)
- Required Support course or other additional
- Required Support course or other additional
SPRING - Semester 4
- BSAD 460: Strategic Management: Capstone (3 cr)
- BSAD 445: WE/Brand Management & IMC (spring only) (3 cr)
- Marketing Concentration Elective* (3 cr)
- Required Support course or other additional
NOTES:
- WE = Writing Enhanced course
- Note: If BA, students should take Intermediate Foreign Language courses during their junior year in place of BS/some required support requirements.
- * Marketing elective options include BSAD 403: Selling and Sales Management, BSAD 414: Digital Marketing & Analytics, BSAD 416: Business Analytics, BSAD 430: International Marketing, and BSAD 454: Global Supply Chain Management.
- The Dialogues curriculum requires a certain number of courses/credit hours in the following Perspectives: Social, Arts and Humanities, STEM, Communications, and Statistics. The exact number of courses a student will be required to take during their undergraduate career varies individually according to the credit transferred in.
Department Chair: Please contact the Center for Academic Excellence (advise@truman.edu) with any updates to the plan above.
This is a sample course sequence to illustrate class offerings for this major. The Office of the Registrar is responsible for certifying completion of degree requirements based on requirements specified in Truman's Official Catalog.