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Nov 25, 2024
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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
Finance Major (BSBA)
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Finance Major - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
Please see the UNLV Lee Business School, Finance Department web page at www.unlv.edu/finance for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.
Please see advising information at the UNLV Lee Business School Undergraduate Advising’s web page at www.unlv.edu/business/advising.
Accreditation
Institution - Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (www.nwccu.org)
School - Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (www.aacsb.edu)
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the B.S.B.A. program in Finance, students should be able to:
- Be able to recognize and apply time value of money concepts.
- Be able to recognize and explain the relationship between risk and return.
- Be able to recognize and explain how cash flows create value.
- Be able to recognize and explain how information is reflected in market prices.
University Graduation Requirements
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Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
General Education Requirements - Subtotal 35-46 Credits
Where specific courses are not identified, please see the related sections of the Undergraduate Catalog for information about which course may satisfy University core requirements. First-Year Seminar - Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 3-6
Distribution Requirement - Credits 18-19
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information.
- Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9
- Humanities, 6 credits required from two different areas. It is recommended that students take , as one of the humanities courses.
- Fine Arts, 3 credits required
- Social Science:
- Automatically satisfied by business requirements
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 9-10
- Life and Physical Sciences - 6-7 credits
- One science course with a lab
- One non-lab science course
- Analytical Thinking - 3 credits
Multicultural and International Requirement - Credits 0-6
Multicultural, one three-credit course required
International, one three-credit course required
These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: www.unlv.edu/provost/multicultural-requirement.
Lee Business School Requirements - BSBA in Finance - Subtotal: 75-80 Credits
Other Lee Business School Requirements - Credits: 9-11
Business Administration Core Requirements - Credits: 42-45
Finance Major Requirements - Credits: 24
General Electives - Credits: 0-10
The number of general electives necessary for each student varies based on how many credits a student uses to satisfy the requirements identified above. The minimum number of degree-applicable credits required to earn a degree from the Lee Business School is 120. Notes
1. Students must have earned 39 credits of 300- and 400-level courses upon graduation.
2. Suggested programs of study:
Students who intend to focus on certain functional areas in finance can choose one of the following suggested programs.
a. Financial management: finance core courses, ACC 401 , FIN 321 , FIN 405 , FIN 480 .
b. Investments: finance core courses, FIN 410 , FIN 419 , one elective finance course, RE 334 .
c. Financial services: finance core courses, FIN 322 , FIN 445 , one 400-level FIN course, RE 332 .
3. The prerequisites for some electives, such as ACC 401 , are not degree applicable. |
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