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.

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Sample Four Year Plan: Cannabis and Natural Medicinals (BS, Business and Entrepreneurship

FALL - Semester 1

ENG 190: Writing as Critical Thinking
MATH 156: College Algebra
CANM 200: History of Natural Medicine
TRU100: Symposium
TRU110: Self and Society
BSAD 153: Introduction to Business Data Analytics

SPRING - Semester 2

MATH 157: Plane Trigonometry
AGSC 110: Principles of Plant Agriculture
PHRE 188: Ethics
ACCT 220: Introduction to Financial Accounting
Foreign Language I

FALL - Semester 3

CANM 300: Cannabis Cult and Proc
Foreign Language II
BIOL 107: Cells, Molecules & Genes
ACCT 221: Introduction to Management Accounting

SPRING - Semester 4

BSAD 234: Legal Environment of Business
Additional WE course
Arts & Humanities Perspective course
STAT 190: Basic Statistics

FALL - Semester 5

CANM 301: Regulation of Nat Med
BSAD 349: Organizational Behavior
POL 262: American State and Local Government
Learning Plan course
BSAD 329: Principles of Finance

SPRING - Semester 6

JINS 347, 384, or 3001: Select JINS course (double counts in Learning Plan)
BSAD 325: Principles of Marketing
Social Perspective/Intercultural course
Learning Plan course
Arts & Humanities Perspective course

FALL - Semester 7

CANM 401 OR Medicinals Practicum OR
CANM 302/303: Internship and Eval & Analysis of Internship
Social Perspective/Intercultural course
Learning Plan course
COMM 170: Public Speaking
BSAD 415: Entrepreneurship

SPRING - Semester 8

CANM 400: Natural Medicinals Sem
Additional WE course
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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 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.

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