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Business Informatics Curriculum

Business Core Courses

To assure a minimum level of competence in all functional areas of business, the College of Business requires each Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) student to complete the 48 credit hours of business core courses as outlined in the course catalog.

Accounting

Financial accounting processes

Analyzing and recording transactions

Preparing financial statements

Introduction to Business & Professional Development 

Business concepts and careers

Introduction to the major functional areas of business

Economics

Analysis of supply and demand

Examining roles of governmental spending and taxation

Consumer behavior and the behavior of firms

Government’s role in a market economy

Informatics

Techniques and tools used in spreadsheets

Finance

Time value of money, security valuation, capital investment analysis

Cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy

Management

Business statistics

Legal environment of organizations

Organizational behavior

Operations management

Marketing

Introduction to marketing’s function in business

Analysis of product, pricing, promotion and distribution

Major Requirements

Students will then round-out their business informatics degree with a variety of informatics-specific courses in addition to a number of upper-division informatics and business elective courses.