Undergraduate Business Programs | 12
SoBA Breadth Requirements
Breadth Requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Requires 180-quarter units minimum to graduate. No more than 6 units of PE activity work for unit
requirement. A course is defined to be a block of instruction, which carries 4 or more quarter units of credit (3
semester units X 1.5 = 4.5 quarter units).
certification from a California Community College.
English Composition: To be completed with no grade lower than ‘C’
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ENGL 1A
ENGL 1B
ENGL 1C
Foreign Language: Level 3 or 12 quarter units (Minimum grade of 'C')
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Language to be used
Placement Exam
H.S. Language/Yrs
Ethnic Studies: (May also be used to satisfy a course requirement in the Humanities or
Social Sciences; *Humanities=ETST 1/3/4/5/7/8/12/14/61)
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Humanities: 5 courses (20 units)
One course in World History (HIST 10, 15 or 20)
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World History
One course in one of the following:
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Fine Arts (Art, Art Hist, Dance, FVC, Music, Theatre, or Creative
Fine Arts/Lit/PHIL/RLST
Writing), Literature (in any language), Philosophy or Religious Studies
Three additional courses from areas listed above, or
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History, HASS Interdisciplinary, Ethnic Studies,
Foreign Languages (above level 3), Latin American Studies,
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Linguistics, Women's Studies (not WS 1)
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Social Sciences: 4 courses (16 units)
One course from: Economics or Political Science
ECON 002
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ECON/POSC
One course from: Anthropology, Psychology or Sociology
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(Includes Biological Anthropology and Physical Anthropology)
ANTH/PSYC/SOC
Two additional courses from areas listed above
or Human Development,
ECON 003
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Cultural Geography, Ethnic Studies, Environmental Sciences,
HASS Interdisciplinary, Women’s Studies (not WS 10).
ECON 102 or 103
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Natural Sciences and Mathematics: 5 courses (20 units)
MATH 022
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One course from: Math/Stat/Computer Science
MATH/STAT/CS
One course from: Biological Science
(Biology, Biochemistry, Entomology, Plant Sciences)
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Biological Science
One course from: Physical Science
(Chemistry, Geoscience/Astronomy/Oceanography-not GEO 6, Physics) ____________________
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Physical Science
Two additional courses from areas listed above or in physical and/or
biological science courses offered in the Dept. of Soil and Environ. Sciences
STAT 048
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CS 008
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Students who are IGETC certified do not need to complete UCR requirements. Only students who do not have
IGETC certification need to follow the worksheet below. Keep in mind that courses that you have completed
towards GE at your prior school will be used towards the requirements below.
13 | Student Handbook
Business Preparation vs. Pre-Business
Except for transfer students who have met all selecting criteria, no other students who start at
UCR are admitted directly
to the Business Administration major. The Business program is a selecting major, and therefore, students must meet major
change criteria before being formally accepted into the program. Refer to the next page for the major change criteria.
Students who are not yet in the major and working towards the Business Administration program fall into three
categories: (1) Students who are in other declared majors, (2) Business Preparation students, or (3) Pre-Business students.
Business Preparation (BSPR) and Pre-Business (PRBS) are two separate and distinct categories of students. The
distinctions are as follows:
Business Preparation (BSPR)
Designation for transfer students that do not
meet all of the selecting criteria at the time
of admission (eg. Missing IGETC or one or
more of the major prerequisites)
Advised by the Undergraduate Business
Programs Office in 2340 Olmsted Hall
Must complete all major change criteria by
the end of the second quarter of enrollment
Complete application process and
attend
major change workshop. RSVP and attend
the workshop at the Undergraduate
Business Programs Office
Pre-Business (PRBS)
Designation for freshman
and sophomore
students who started at UCR as freshman,
that have not yet completed all selecting
criteria
Advised by CHASS Student Academic
Affairs Office in 3400 HMNSS
Must complete all major change criteria no
later than earning 110 units
Complete application process and attend
major change workshop. RSVP and attend
the workshop through the Pre-Business
Program in CHASS