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), International Business 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)
- Intermediate Foreign Language I (3 cr)
SPRING - Semester 2
- JINS 3XX: WE/Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar (3 cr)
- BSAD 453: WE/International Management (spring only) (3 cr)
- BSAD 352: Operations Management (3 cr)
- DATA 222: Data Science (3 cr)
- Intermediate Foreign Language II (3 cr)
FALL - Semester 3
- BSAD 430: International Marketing (fall only) (3 cr)
- BSAD 353: Information Management & Data Analytics (3 cr)
- International Business Concentration Elective*
- Required Support course or other additional
- Required Support course or other additional
SPRING - Semester 4
- BSAD 460: Strategic Management: Capstone (3 cr)
- BSAD 455: International Financial Management (spring only) (3 cr)OR BSAD 454: Global Supply Chain Management (3 cr)
- Required Support course or other additional
- Required Support course or other additional
NOTES:
- WE = Writing Enhanced course
- The International Business concentration is offered with a Bachelor of Arts degree only.
- The International Business concentration requires an international internship or study abroad for credit.
- * International Business elective courses include BSAD 416 Business Analytics, ECON 308 Economics of the European Union, ECON 348 Economics of East Asia, ECON 403 - International Trade Theory and Policy, ECON 412 International Monetary Theory and Policy, FREN 326 French for International Business Communication, POL 310 Comparative Politics: Theory and Research, SPAN 366 Spanish for Business.
- 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.