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Freeman College Core Requirements

The Freeman College core requirements comprise those management courses that all candidates for the BSBA degree must complete regardless of major. It is designed to cultivate three forms of literacy relevant to managerial thought: foundational, managerial and integrative. All BSBA graduates must acquire these literacies as they are the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for managers, regardless of organization, industry, function or sector.

All BSBA candidates ordinarily will have completed at least three of the four foundational literacy core courses by the end of the first year. When this is not possible, students should plan to complete all four foundational literacy and at least two managerial literacy core courses by the end of their sophomore year.

FOUNDATIONAL LITERACY REQUIREMENTS
ANOP 102Spreadsheet Modeling & Data Analysis1
ECON 101Economic Principles/Problems1
MGMT 100Exploring Management.5
MGMT 101Introduction to Organization and Management1
MANAGERIAL LITERACY REQUIREMENTS
ACFM 104Foundations of Accounting I1
ACFM 203Corporate Finance 11
or ACFM 210 Managerial Finance
ANOP 202Operations Management1
MIDE 201Marketing1
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Accounting and finance majors must take ACFM 203 Corporate Finance in lieu of ACFM 210 Managerial Finance.

INTEGRATIVE LITERACY REQUIREMENT
MGMT 302The Stakeholder Organization1


Total credits required: 8.5