Oct 11, 2024

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Spanish Business, B.A.

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The Spanish Business major aims to provide students with a cultural, economic, legal, and linguistic knowledge base to guide their activities in a Spanish and Spanish-American business setting. Students will enhance their Spanish language competence while at the same time mastering foundational business concepts that will enable them to communicate with a sensitivity to the values and customs of their Spanish and Spanish-American business counterparts and clients. This program’s combined study of Business and Spanish will result in the ability to know not only what to say in a given business situation, but when and why to say it. The program will culminate in a capstone internship in a business setting with a significant Spanish component.

Spanish Business, B.A. Learning Outcomes

Degree Requirements

Institutional Degree Requirements

Program-Specific Degree Requirements: To be eligible for graduation, students majoring in Spanish Business must complete a minimum of 121 credits.

General Education Requirement

First Year Seminar

FYS 100 First-Year Seminar 3 credit hours
FYS 102 Common Hour 0 credit hours

Foundations Requirements

Communication course:

FCO 105 Rhetorical Communication 3 credit hours

Advanced Communication course:

FCO 225 Interdisciplinary Communication 3 credit hours

Quantitative Fluency course:

Satisfied by major (MAT 105 with QBA 260 )

American Citizenship course:

Satisfied by major (ECO 201 )

Global Citizenship course:

Satisfied by major (ECO 200 )

Disciplinary Perspectives Requirements

Constellation Requirement

The Constellation requirement is met when a student completes four courses from a minimum of three disciplines within the Constellation requirements. Students who transfer in 60 credits or more at the time of admission to the college will be waived from the Constellation requirement, except for Education majors. The waiver applies to the requirement for graduation but does not waive the credits to graduate; students need to meet the overall bachelor’s degree credit requirement.

Required Courses

Required Major Courses

ACC 220 Financial Accounting 3 credit hours
BUS 260 Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
BUS 494 Integrated Business Experience 3 credit hours
ECO 200 Principles of Economics (Macro) 3 credit hours
ECO 201 Principles of Economics (Micro) 3 credit hours
FIN 300 Managerial Finance I 3 credit hours
HUM 350 Research Methods in the Humanities 3 credit hours
IFS 100 Information Technology (IT) Competency 0 credit hours
IFS 105 Personal Productivity Computing 3 credit hours
INT 260 Cross-Cultural Communication 3 credit hours
MAT 105 College Algebra II 4 credit hours
MGT 150 Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MKT 100 Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
QBA 260 Data Driven Decision Making 3 credit hours
SCM 100 Modern Value Chain 3 credit hours
SPN 201 Spanish: Perceptions and Practice 3 credit hours
SPN 202 Spanish: Communication and Culture 3 credit hours
SPN 203 Spanish for Business 3 credit hours
SPN 205 Conversing in Spanish 3 credit hours
SPN 206 Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Issues 3 credit hours
SPN 301 Communication and Connections in Spanish 3 credit hours
SPN 420 Seminar on the Spanish Language 3 credit hours
SPN 450 Internship in Spanish 3 credit hours
IBS 200 Principles of International Business 3 credit hours
OR
IBS 395 International Business Experience 3 credit hours
SPN 307 Tradition and Change in Spain 3 credit hours
OR
SPN 308 Tradition and Change in Spanish America 3 credit hours
SPN 315 Exploring Spain through Its Literature 3 credit hours
OR
SPN 316 Exploring Spanish America through Its Literature 3 credit hours

Spanish Electives

Students must complete 6 credits of Spanish electives at the 300 level or higher. 3 of which credits must be internship credits.

It is highly recommended that students complete some or all of the Spanish elective credits in an approved study abroad program as this type of experience allows students to develop stronger proficiency in the Spanish language, immerse themselves in Hispanic culture, and gain first-hand insight into business practices in the Hispanic world.

Additional Electives

Students must complete an additional 6 elective credits in Business or Spanish, at the 300 level or higher.

Placement

Students who place above SPN 201 or SPN 202 will be required to take additional Spanish courses to meet the required credit count for the major.

Suggested Course Sequence

Freshman Year (31 credits)

SCM 100 Modern Value Chain 3 credit hours
ECO 200 Principles of Economics (Macro) 3 credit hours
ECO 201 Principles of Economics (Micro) 3 credit hours
FCO 105 Rhetorical Communication 3 credit hours
FYS 100 First-Year Seminar 3 credit hours
FYS 102 Common Hour 0 credit hours
IFS 100 Information Technology (IT) Competency 0 credit hours
IFS 105 Personal Productivity Computing 3 credit hours
MAT 105 College Algebra II 4 credit hours
SPN 201 Spanish: Perceptions and Practice 3 credit hours
SPN 202 Spanish: Communication and Culture 3 credit hours
Disciplinary Perspectives - Humanities course 3 credit hours

Sophomore Year (30 credits)

ACC 220 Financial Accounting 3 credit hours
FCO 225 Interdisciplinary Communication 3 credit hours
MGT 150 Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MKT 100 Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
QBA 260 Data Driven Decision Making 3 credit hours
SPN 203 Spanish for Business 3 credit hours
SPN 205 Conversing in Spanish 3 credit hours
SPN 206 Perspectives on Contemporary Hispanic Issues 3 credit hours
Disciplinary Perspectives - Arts course 3 credit hours
Disciplinary Perspectives - Social and Behavioral Sciences course 3 credit hours

Junior Year (30 credits)

BUS 260 Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
FIN 300 Managerial Finance I 3 credit hours
HUM 350 Research Methods in the Humanities 3 credit hours
INT 260 Cross-Cultural Communication 3 credit hours
SPN 301 Communication and Connections in Spanish 3 credit hours
Disciplinary Perspectives - Natural/Physical Sciences course 3 credit hours
Constellation course 3 credit hours
IBS 200 Principles of International Business 3 credit hours
OR
IBS 395 International Business Experience 3 credit hours
SPN 307 Tradition and Change in Spain 3 credit hours
OR
SPN 308 Tradition and Change in Spanish America 3 credit hours
SPN 315 Exploring Spain through Its Literature 3 credit hours
OR
SPN 316 Exploring Spanish America through Its Literature 3 credit hours

Senior Year (30 credits)

BUS 494 Integrated Business Experience 3 credit hours
SPN 420 Seminar on the Spanish Language 3 credit hours
Spanish Elective course 3 credit hours
Spanish Elective course 3 credit hours
Spanish Elective course 3 credit hours
Constellation course 3 credit hours
Constellation course 3 credit hours
Constellation course 3 credit hours
Elective course 3 credit hours
Elective course 3 credit hours