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B.S. in Business Administration
Contact Person:
Donna Mosier, Department Chair
Dunn 226, (315) 267-2238 (mosierdj@potsdam.edu)
The B.S. degree program in Business Administration requires
42 credit hours plus 9 credit hours of cognates.
| Required Courses | Credits |
| @ACCT 201 Principles of Accounting I | 3 |
| @ACCT 202 Principles of Accounting II | 3 |
| @FINA 301 Finance | 3 |
| @MGMT 301 Principles of Management | 3 |
| @MKTG 301 Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| EMRE 330 Human Resource Management | 3 |
| @MGMT 330 Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| @MGMT 340 Information Systems for Business | 3 |
| @MGMT 410 Operations Management | 3 |
| @MGMT 490 Strategic and Global Management | 3 |
| Elective Courses: | |
| 4 additional courses from the following | |
| @ACCT 301 Intermediate Accounting I | 3 |
| @ACCT 302 Intermediate Accounting II | 3 |
| @ACCT 360 Federal Individual Taxation | 3 |
| @ACCT 385 Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| @ACCT 395 Special Topics in Accounting | 1-12 |
| @ACCT 450 Fraud Examination | 3 |
| @ACCT 485 Cost Management | 3 |
| @ACCT 491 Accounting Internship | 3 |
| @ACCT 495 Special Topics in Accounting | 1-12 |
| @CMPT 210 Introduction to Information Technology | 3 |
| @CMPT 310 Using Spreadsheets | 3 |
| @CMPT 320 Networking and Computer Communications | 3 |
| @CMPT 491 Information Technology Internship | 3 |
| @FINA 320 Management of Risk and Insurance | 3 |
| @FINA 395 Special Topics in Finance | 1-12 |
| @FINA 410 Investments and Portfolio Analysis | 3 |
| @FINA 460 Financial Statement Analysis | 3 |
| @FINA 491 Finance Internship | 3 |
| @FINA 495 Special Topics in Finance | 1-12 |
| @MGMT 310 Organizational Behavior and Ethics | 3 |
| @MGMT 320 International Business | 3 |
| @MGMT 360 Corporate Law | 3 |
| @MGMT 370 Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| @MGMT 395 Special Topics in Management | 1-12 |
| @MGMT 420 Leadership in Organizations | 3 |
| @MGMT 491 Management Internship | 3 |
| @MGMT 495 Special Topics in Management | 1-12 |
| @MKTG 320 Principles of Advertising and Promotion | 3 |
| @MKTG 330 Marketing Research | 3 |
| @MKTG 370 Business-to-Business Marketing | 3 |
| @MKTG 395 Special Topics in Marketing | 1-12 |
| @MKTG 491 Marketing Internship | 3 |
| @MKTG 495 Special Topics in Marketing | 1-12 |
| @MUAI 327 Business of Music I | 3 |
| @MUAI 328 Business of Music II | 3 |
| @MUAI 400 Legal Aspects of the Music Industry | 3 |
| ECON 300 Statistical Methods in Economics and Business | 3 |
| ECON 307 Forecasting and Data Modeling | 3 |
| ECON 441 Money and Banking | 3 |
| EMRE 300 Employment Relations | 3 |
| EMRE 301 Employment Law | 3 |
| EMRE 420 Compensation | 3 |
| EMRE 432 Organizational Development | 3 |
| Cognate Requirements: | |
| 9 credit hours | |
| ECON 105 Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| One Statistics course selected from the following: | |
| MATH 125, STAT 100 | 3 |
Special Notes:
- B.S. Business Administration students must meet the same General Education requirements as students pursuing Bachelors of Arts degrees at SUNY Potsdam. However, Bachelor of Science students only need 65 credit hours outside the Department of Business Administration, instead of 70. Courses with subject codes ACCT, FINA, MGMT and MKTG are considered inside the department.
- Business administration majors must earn a minimum grade of 2.0 in every required, elective, and cognate course counted toward the major. Students may not elect the S/U option for any required, elective, and cognate course.
- Occasionally, special topic courses in business administration are offered in ACCT, FINA, MGMT and MKTG with codes 395 or 495. These courses may be counted as business administration electives. Students must consult with their advisers.
- Student may not double-count more than two common courses between any majors or minors in the Department of Business Administration and any other department. Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
- Students must take a minimum of 9 courses (27 credit hours) at SUNY Potsdam toward fulfilling the requirements for the business administration major.
- Students pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree must complete a minimum of 75 credit hours of liberal arts courses. Non-liberal arts courses are designated with the “@” symbol.
- All 300 and 400 level ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG courses require at least junior standing.
- Up to 3 credit hours of internship in ACCT, FINA, MGMT, and MKTG may be counted toward the electives.
- MGMT 301, 310, and MKTG 301 are Speaking-Intensive (SI).
- MGMT 490 is Writing-Intensive (WI). It is also the capstone course that should be taken in senior year.