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Getting into the Major
Business Administration is a selecting major and students must meet all requirements to be accepted into the major.
1) All business prerequisites must be completed.
2) All breadth requirements or IGETC must be completed (with the exception of ENGL 1C and foreign
language, which you must complete by the time you graduate).
3) Students must have a UCR GPA of a 2.70 (with a 2.50 minimum in the major prerequisite courses, and a
2.00 in any upper-division courses attempted).
4) Students must be admitted to the major by the time they reach 110 units. Students exceeding 110 units may
petition to be accepted up to a maximum of 120 units. Exception: Business Prep (BSPR) transfer students
have two quarters to complete requirements, regardless of units.
5) Students must attend a mandatory application workshop in the quarter that they are completing all
requirements to be eligible to enter the program.
Major Prerequisites for BSAD major:
(2.50 minimum GPA)
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BUS 10: Intro to Business
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BUS 20: Financial Accounting & Reporting
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CS 8: Intro to Computing
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ECON 2: Intro to Macroeconomics
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ECON 3: Intro to Microeconomics
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MATH 22: Calculus for Business
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STAT 48: Statistics for Business
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ECON 102: Microeconomic Theory
or
ECON 103: Macroeconomic Theory
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The Business Major
Part One – The Core
All Business Administration students must complete ten
(10) courses from BUS 100W through 109:
BUS 100W: Management Writing and
Communication.
Focuses on writing and
communication methods in a business environment.
Topics include written and oral presentations,
interpersonal skills, teamwork in a multicultural
setting, and effective use of communication
technologies. Fulfills the third-quarter writing
requirement for students who earn a grade of “C” or
better.
BUS 101: Information Technology Management.
Topics include computer hardware and software,
business data processing, databases,
telecommunications, systems analysis and design, cost-
benefit analysis, and systems applications in business.
Includes database and spreadsheet projects.
BUS 102: Ethics and Law in Business and Society.
Analyzes the legal, ethical, political, and social aspects
of the business environment. Topics include ethics and
social responsibility, government regulation, corporate
governance, and global management issues.
BUS 103: Marketing and Distribution
Management.
An introduction to the role of
marketing in society with emphasis on concepts,
marketing methods, and institutions.
BUS 104: Decision Analysis and Management
Science.
A survey of deterministic and probabilistic
models for decision making. Topics include linear
programming and extensions, networks, dynamic
programming, decision trees, queuing models, and
simulation. Explores the application of these
models in decision making.
BUS 105: Production and Operations
Management.
Deals with the issues of design and
control of production systems in manufacturing
and service organizations. Covers product and
process selection, capacity planning, location and
layout design, project and job scheduling,
inventory control, material planning, and quality
control.
BUS 106: Financial Theories and Markets
. An
introduction to financial management and financial
institutions. Includes time value of money, stock
and bond valuation, risk and return, portfolio
theory, capital budgeting, capital structure,
dividend policy, and financial databases.
BUS 107: Organizational Behavior.
Studies
organizations from the behavioral science
perspective. Topics include motivation, leadership,
communication, groups, organization structure and
culture, and control in complex organizations.
BUS 108: Financial Evaluation and Managerial
Analysis.
Study of accounting data used for
managerial planning and controlling of business
operations. Provides an introduction to
manufacturing operations and cost accounting
systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, relevant
costing, standard costing and variance analysis, as
well as budgeting.
BUS 109: Competitive and Strategic Analysis.
An
integrative course which provides an
understanding of strategic decision-making
processes in organizations, the interrelationships
among functional areas, and how decision making
is affected by internal and external environments.