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International Business Major

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The international business major provides students with a general understanding and appreciation of global business and economic environments, various cultures, and diverse values. This interdisciplinary program combines liberal arts studies and professional education. As such, the program has its roots in disciplines dealing with the basics of behavioral studies, with theoretical structures and with empirical analyses. The program provides a foundation for understanding current and future business and economic conditions.

An increasing share of local, regional, and national economic activities are attributed to exports, imports, trade in intellectual property and technology-intensive products, U.S. investment abroad, and foreign investment in the United States. These patterns of business activities require personnel, both at home and abroad, with a solid academic base for dealing with the changing concepts, practices, and integrated international business organizations. In addition, such personnel must have an in-depth understanding of other nations, languages, and cultures. The program includes opportunities for students to obtain part of their education in foreign universities such as in UNLV’s Turin, Italy, program.

The international business major also prepares students for advanced degrees in areas such as business administration, public administration, law, economics, and other social science and liberal arts disciplines. Students pursuing the major in international business may pursue other business majors by completing the respective requirements.

For details about admission requirements, transfer policies, degree and graduation requirements, and college policies, please refer to the Lee Business School section of the Undergraduate Catalog.

Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements - Total Credits: 35-46 credits

Where specific courses are not identified, please see the related section of the Undergraduate Catalog for information about which courses may satisfy university core requirements.

First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

Second-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 3-6

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

Distribution Requirement: Social Science

Because the courses taught by the Lee Business School are deemed part of the social sciences distribution area, students pursuing a major in the Lee Business School must fulfill the distribution requirement by completing courses in each of two content areas outside the major area of study. Those areas are:

Humanities and Fine Arts; and Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking.

 

  • Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

  • Humanities, 6 credits required from two different areas. It is recommended that students take COM 101, Oral Communication, as one of the humanities courses.

  • Fine Arts, 3 credits required

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  • Life and Physical Sciences, and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 9-10

  • Life and Physical Sciences, 6-7 credits required

  • One science course with a lab

  • One non-lab science course

  • Analytical Thinking, 3 credits required

Multicultural and International Requirement - Total Credits: 0-6

Three credits in each area are required. These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: http://web.unlv.edu/committees/gec. (Some business students may satisfy these requirements with courses required for a business major.)
• Multicultural, 3 credits required
• International, 3 credits required
 

Other Lee Business School Requirements - Total Credits: 9-11

Business Administration Core Requirements - Total Credits: 42-45

International Business Requirements - Total Credits: 9

Functional Business Area Requirement - Total Credits: 9

Three three-credit, upper-division (300- and 400- level courses) from one functional area of business. Functional areas of business are: ACC, ECON, FIN, IS, MGT, and MKT. Courses taken to satisfy the international business requirement cannot be counted toward the functional business area requirement. An internship in international business (IB 481) may count for up to three credits of either the international business requirement or the functional business area.

Language/Area Studies Requirement - Total Credits: 18

Students must demonstrate third-year level proficiency in a selected foreign language. Foreign language proficiency may be demonstrated by:

  1. A cumulative GPA of 2.70 or higher in 301 and 302 of the selected language. (Where offered, the business language course may be substituted for 302. Students must meet the language course prerequisites set by the Department of Foreign Languages. If that department determines a student’s language skills are too advanced for the 301 or 302 course, the student must see an advisor in Undergraduate Advising.)
  2. Proficiency by examination.
    In addition, students must complete 18 credits from:
    1. Language courses in the selected foreign language (no more than six of these credits may be from lower-division language courses);
    2. Courses in the related area studies;
    3. Courses taken during full-time resident study in a foreign university, provided that all instruction is in the selected foreign language;
    4. A combination of 1-3.

Students whose native language is not English have two options.
Option A: North American Area Studies - The student must complete 18 credits from courses related to the North America region or to oral or written communication in English. At least six of these credits must relate to communication in English. Courses required of all business majors may not be counted toward this requirement. This option is not available to native speakers of English.
Option B: The student may fulfill the Language/Area Studies Requirement for any other area, provided the language proficiency requirement is satisfied by a language other than the student’s native tongue.

General Electives - Total Credits: 0-4

The minimum number of degree-applicable credits required to earn an International Business degree from the Lee Business School is 122-132, depending on how degree requirements are fulfilled..

Total Credits: 122-132

Notes

  1. Students must take BUS 498 as the capstone course in the business core.

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