BSBA – Finance

Four-Year Plan

Students must have 42 hours of General Education coursework. Courses listed in bold print count toward the 42 hours. A list of applicable General
Education Requirement courses is posted on the College of Business Administration webpage and are available in the Academic Advising Office.
Courses in italics count toward the Good Standing Policy.

FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER

MATH 1030 - College Algebra MATH 1100 - Basic Calculus

ENGL 1100 – First Year Writing ECON 1001 - Principles of Microeconomics
BUS AD 1000 - Introduction to Business* Social Science
American History or Government Humanities and Fine Arts Goal
Information Literacy** INFSYS 2800 - Information Systems Concepts and Applications

THIRD SEMESTER FOURTH SEMESTER

MATH 1105 - Basic Probability and Statistics
Communication Proficiency
ACCTNG 2400 - Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
ECON 1002 - Principles of Macroeconomics
Humanities and Fine Arts Goal
ACCTNG 2410 - Managerial Accounting
BUS AD 2900 - Legal Environment of Business
SCMA 3300 - Business Analytics and Statistics
Humanities and Fine Arts Goal
Life/Natural Sciences Goal (lecture only)

FIFTH SEMESTER SIXTH SEMESTER

SCMA 3301 – Introduction to Supply Chain Management MGMT 3600 - Management and Organizational Behavior
FINANCE 3500 - Financial Management MKTG 3700 - Basic Marketing
ENGL 3120 - Business Writing Finance Elective***
Cultural Diversity Course Finance Elective***
Non-Business Approved Elective Social Science Course

SEVENTH SEMESTER EIGHTH SEMESTER

Finance Elective*** MGMT 4219/4220 - Strategic Management / Business Assessment Test

Finance Elective*** Finance Elective***
Global Awareness Course Finance Elective***
Non-Business Approved Elective Global Awareness Course
Non-Business Approved Elective Non-Business Approved Elective

* BUS AD 1000 - Introduction to Business is not a required course, but students are strongly encouraged to take it during their Freshman year.

** INFSYS 1800 - Computers and Information Systems meets this requirement and is a prerequisite for INFSYS 2800 - Information Systems
Concepts and Applications. This prerequisite can be waived by exam. See website: http://umsl.edu/go/HRe

*** Finance electives to be selected from:

FINANCE 3501 Financial Policies FINANCE 3560 Practice of Personal Financial Planning
FINANCE 3502 Treasury Management FINANCE 3561 Principles of Insurance
FINANCE 3503 Computer Applications in Finance FINANCE 3562 Life Insurance and Employee Benefits
FINANCE 3520 Investments FINANCE 3563 Retirement Planning and Employee Benefits
FINANCE 3521 Financial Engineering: Apply Derivatives FINANCE 3564 Estate Planning and Trusts
FINANCE 3523 Fixed Income Analysis FINANCE 3565 Seminar in Financial Planning
FINANCE 3525 Practicum in Investments (1 hour) FINANCE/INTLBUS 3580 International Corporate Finance
FINANCE 3540 Intro to Financial Institutions and Financial Markets FINANCE/INTLBUS 3582 International Investments
FINANCE 3541 Commercial Bank Management FINANCE 3590 Internship in Finance
FINANCE 3542 Principles of Real Estate FINANCE 3599 Independent Study in Finance

FINANCE 3565 and FINANCE 3599 are restricted to those offered and approved by department faculty and the department chair.
FINANCE 3525 is a 1 hour course and may be taken up to three times.

See brochure for information on Finance Tracks

Program Subject to Change 09/2017