Finance, B.S.
Overall Requirements
- 120 credit hours, to include at least 36 credits at or above the 300 course level
- Minimum grade of C in all ACC, ECO, and FIN courses at the 300 level or above used toward the major
- At least 50 percent of the business credits required for the degree must be earned at UNC Greensboro.
Degree Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| University Requirements | ||
| General Education Requirements - Minerva's Academic Curriculum (MAC) | ||
Major Requirements
Bryan School Pre-Admission Courses
Students should plan to complete the pre-admission courses by the end of the sophomore year, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Courses used to meet Bryan School Pre-Admission and Bryan School Common Business Core requirements cannot be used to fulfill major or concentration requirements in the following majors: ACCT, BADM, ECOS, ENTR, FINC, INTB, ISSC, HTMT, or MKTG.
See the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics for more information.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | 29-30 | |
| Blueprint for Personal Development and Blueprint for Professional Development | ||
or BUS 216 | Blueprint for Personal and Professional Development | |
| Financial Accounting | ||
| Managerial Accounting | ||
| Principles of Microeconomics | ||
| Principles of Macroeconomics | ||
| Economic and Business Statistics I | ||
| Foundations for Analytics using Spreadsheets | ||
| Information Systems for Decision Making | ||
| Select one of the following: | ||
| Exploring Writing in College Contexts | ||
| Freshman Seminar in Reasoning and Discourse: Written Communication | ||
| College Writing I | ||
| Completion of one of the following: * | ||
| Calculus with Business Applications | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| Calculus II | ||
| Calculus III | ||
| Calculus A | ||
| Calculus B | ||
- *
Or a grade of C or better in any one of the following courses: MAT 115, MAT 118, MAT 150, MAT 151, or MAT 190.
Bryan School Common Business Core
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | 41-42 | |
| Global and Cultural Development | ||
| Leadership Development | ||
| Introduction to Communication Studies | ||
| Calculus with Business Applications | ||
or MAT 191 | Calculus I | |
or MAT 292 | Calculus II | |
or MAT 293 | Calculus III | |
or MAT 196 | Calculus A | |
or MAT 296 | Calculus B | |
| The International Economy | ||
| Business Finance I | ||
| Introduction to International Business | ||
| Organizational Behavior | ||
| The Legal Environment of Business | ||
| Business Policy and Strategy * | ||
| Business Communication & Innovation | ||
| Principles of Marketing | ||
| Ethical Issues in Business | ||
or PHI 262 | Ethical Issues in Entrepreneurship | |
| Operations Management | ||
| Global Sustainability Elective | ||
One chosen from the list below: ** | ||
| Economics of a Global Sustainable Society | ||
| Entrepreneurship in a Sustainable Global Environment | ||
| Global Crossings: Topics in Images, Media, and Texts | ||
| Global Green: Cultures of Production and/or Consumption | ||
| Introduction to Sustainable Development | ||
- *
Hospitality and Tourism Management majors are exempt from the MGT 491 requirement; a similar course, HTM 491, is taken within the major requirements.
- **
Or other approved Global Sustainability elective.
Finance Courses (15 credit hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | 15 | |
| Financial Institutions and Markets | ||
| Business Finance II | ||
| Investments | ||
Select at least two additional courses from the following: | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Seminar in Finance | ||
| Fundamentals of Futures, Options and Behavioral Finance | ||
| Honors Work | ||
| Problems in Finance | ||
| Intermediate Accounting I | ||
| Intermediate Accounting II | ||
| Cost Accounting | ||
| Federal Tax Concepts | ||
| Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | ||
| Economic and Business Statistics II | ||
Electives
Electives sufficient to complete 120 total credit hours required for the degree.