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 102 | Spreadsheet Modeling & Data Analysis | 1 |
| ECON 101 | Economic Principles/Problems | 1 |
| MGMT 100 | Exploring Management | .5 |
| MGMT 101 | Introduction to Organization and Management | 1 |
MANAGERIAL LITERACY REQUIREMENTS
| ACFM 104 | Foundations of Accounting I | 1 |
| ACFM 203 | Corporate Finance 1 | 1 |
| or ACFM 210 | Managerial Finance | |
| ANOP 202 | Operations Management | 1 |
| MIDE 201 | Marketing | 1 |
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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 302 | The Stakeholder Organization | 1 |