BS Business Administration | Cal Poly Academic Catalog (2024)

Program Learning Objectives

Students graduating from our program will be able to:

1.1 Apply knowledge to identify opportunities and solve business problems.
2.1 Evaluate the social and ethical responsibilities of business organizations.
3.1 Exhibit the ability to work in a diverse environment.
3.2 Illustrate an understanding of business activities in a global environment.
4.1 Demonstrate effective written communication skills.
4.2 Demonstrate effective oral communication skills.
4.3 Demonstrate effective participation in teams.

Degree Requirements and Curriculum

In addition to the program requirements listed on this page, students must also satisfy requirements outlined in more detail in the Minimum Requirements for Graduation section of this catalog, including:

60 units of upper-division courses
2.0 GPA
Graduation Writing Requirement (GWR)
U.S. Cultural Pluralism (USCP)

Note: No Major, Support or Concentration courses may be selected as credit/no credit.

MAJOR COURSES
BUS206	Business Professionalism and Career Readiness	2
BUS207	Legal Responsibilities of Business	4
BUS214	Financial Accounting	4
BUS215	Managerial Accounting	4
BUS342	Fundamentals of Corporate Finance	4
BUS346	Principles of Marketing	4
BUS387	Organizational Behavior	4
BUS391	Information Systems	4
BUS401 &BUS411	General Management and Strategy and Business Knowledge Exit Exam	4
BUS404	Governmental and Social Influences on Business	4
Technology Management - Select from the following:		4
ITP303	Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
ITP326	Product Design and Development
ITP330	Packaging Fundamentals
ITP341	Packaging Polymers and Processing
ITP371	Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing and Services
International Business - Select from the following:		4
BUS301	Global Financial Institutions and Markets
BUS302	International and Cross Cultural Management
BUS303	Introduction to International Business
BUS304	International Supply Chains
BUS410	The Legal Environment of International Business
BUS446	International Marketing
ECON330	International Trade Theory
Senior Project - Select from the following:		4
BUS416	Volunteer Income Tax Assistance - Senior Project
BUS461 &BUS462	Senior Project I and Senior Project II
BUS463	Senior Project: Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
BUS464	Applied Senior Project Seminar
ECON464	Applied Senior Project
Concentration courses (see below)		28
SUPPORT COURSES
ECON221	Microeconomics	4
ECON222	Macroeconomics (D2) ¹	4
MATH221	Calculus for Business and Economics (B4) ^1,2	4
STAT251	Statistical Inference for Management I (GE Electives) ^1,3	4
STAT252	Statistical Inference for Management II ³	5
GENERAL EDUCATION (GE)
(See GE program requirements below.)		60
FREE ELECTIVES
Free Electives ⁴		21
Total units		180

¹	Required in Major or Support; also satisfies General Education (GE) requirement.
²	Students should follow the advising footnote under the SUPPORT section of the Economics major: “Students pursuing the Quantitative Analysis concentration should take MATH141 and MATH142 instead of MATH221”.
³	STAT301 (4 units) and STAT302 (4 units) may be used as a substitute for STAT251 (4 units) and STAT252 (5 units). All students must still complete GE Area B requirements. STAT301 and STAT302 are not GE courses.
⁴	If a General Education (GE) course is used to satisfy a Major or Support requirement, additional units of Free Electives may be needed to complete the total units required for the degree.

Concentrations

Students may elect to complete curriculum from the following concentrations:

Accounting
Consumer Packaging
Entrepreneurship
Financial Management
Information Systems
Management and Human Resources
Marketing Management
Quantitative Analysis
Real Estate Finance

General Education (GE) Requirements

72 units required, 12 of which are specified in Major and/or Support.
If any of the remaining 60 units is used to satisfy a Major or Support requirement, additional units of Free Electives may be needed to complete the total units required for the degree.
See the complete GE course listing.
A grade of C- or better is required in one course in each of the following GE Areas: A1 (Oral Communication), A2 (Written Communication), A3 (Critical Thinking), and B4 (Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning).

Area A	English Language Communication and Critical Thinking
A1	Oral Communication	4
A2	Written Communication	4
A3	Critical Thinking	4
Area B	Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning
B1	Physical Science	4
B2	Life Science	4
B3	One lab taken with either a B1 or B2 course
B4	Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (4 units in Support) ^1,2	0
Upper-Division B		4
Area C	Arts and Humanities
Lower-division courses in Area C must come from three different subject prefixes.
C1	Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater	4
C2	Humanities: Literature, Philosophy, Languages other than English	4
Lower-Division C Elective - Select a course from either C1 or C2		4
Upper-Division C		4
Area D	Social Sciences - Select courses in Area D from at least two different prefixes
D1	American Institutions (Title 5, Section 40404 Requirement)	4
D2	Lower-Division D (4 units in Support) ¹	0
Upper-Division D		4
Area E	Lifelong Learning and Self-Development
Lower-Division E		4
Area F	Ethnic Studies
F	Ethnic Studies	4
GE Electives in Areas B, C, and D
Select courses from two different areas; may be lower-division or upper-division courses.
GE Electives (4 units in Support plus 4 units in GE) ^1,3		4
Total units		60

¹	Required in Major or Support; also satisfies General Education (GE) requirement.
²	Students should follow the advising footnote under the SUPPORT section of the Economics major: “Students pursuing the Quantitative Analysis concentration should take MATH141 and MATH142 instead of MATH221”.
³	STAT301 (4 units) and STAT302 (4 units) may be used as a substitute for STAT251 (4 units) and STAT252 (5 units). All students must still complete GE Area B requirements. STAT301 and STAT302 are not GE courses.