120 credits of coursework is required for the baccalaureate degree with a minimum 2.0 overall GPA, and a minimum 2.0 major GPA.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Language, Business, and Culture (B.A.) Please note that the Spanish concentration is NOT part of this Combined Degree Program. See the Spanish and Latino Studies department for 4+1 options.
Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Beginning Language I depending on placement (Fulfills SEEDS: World Language 1) | 3 | Beginning Language II depending on placement (Fulfills SEEDS: World Language 1) | 3 |
| New Student Seminar | 1 | SEEDS: Effective Writing II (WRIT 106 recommended) | 3 |
| SEEDS: Effective Writing I (WRIT 105 recommended) | 3 | INFO 240 (Fulfills SEEDS: Quantitative Reasoning) | 3 |
| ECON 202 (Fulfills SEEDS: Political and Civic Life) | 3 | INFO 173 | 3 |
| SEEDS: Interactive Communication | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Required Concentration course 1 (Fulfills SEEDS: World Langauage 2) | 3 | Required Concentration course 2 | 3 |
| INBS 250 (Fulfills SEEDS: Exploration 1- Analyzing Cultures and Societies) | 3 | SEEDS: Exploration 3 - Historical Thinking recommended | 3 |
| SEEDS: Exploration 2 - Ethical Inquiry recommended | 3 | SEEDS: Exploration 4 - Literary and Artistic Analysis recommended | 3 |
| ACCT 204 | 3 | INFO 290 | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Required Concentration course 3 | 3 | ARAB 320, CHIN 331, FREN 321, GERM 321, ITAL 321, or RUSS 331 | 3 |
| ARAB Elective | 3 | MGMT 356 | 3 |
| MGMT 295 | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| Concentration Elective | 3 | WLNC 475 | 3 |
| Advanced Business Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 2 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | MBA Graduate Swing Courses | 6 |
| Free Elective | 3 | ||
| International Experience (non-course requirement) | 0 | ||
| 14 | 15 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
Graduate Program Roadmap
| Fourth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||
| First Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | ||||
| Second Half | |||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||||
| 6 | |||||
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| First Half | First Half | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core Course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Flexible Core course | 1.5 | MBA Flexible Core | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | MBA Elective | 1.5 | ||
| Second Half | Second Half | ||||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Core course | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| MBA Elective | 1.5 | MBA Core course | 1.5 | ||
| 10.5 | 10.5 | ||||
| Total Credits 27 | |||||