Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Financial Economics Major


Financial Economics Major


Business Core

The Business Core program provides a broad foundation in the five areas of accounting, economics, finance, management and marketing plus a working knowledge of quantitative methods and information systems. These courses provide the basis for advanced courses in a business major.

Business Core Requirements

Signature Learning courses (with exceptions from the Quantitative Reasoning and Social Science Signature Learning course requirements); Econ 101, ECON 115, Bus 101, 131, 201, 211, 213, 221, 240, 242, 246, 325, 390, 450; Math 120 and Math 215. Students majoring or minoring in any area of business must earn at least a C- in BUS-101. Students may repeat BUS-101, if necessary to achieve this minimum.  

Signature Learning Requirements (Accounting, Business Management, Financial Economics, Marketing Majors)


  • First Year Seminar 
  • Reading and Writing 
  • Oral Communication
  • Ethics 
  • Cultural Pluralism 
  • Quantitive Reasoning - (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
  • Religion 
  • Social Science - (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
  • Fine Arts 
  • Natural Science (Students must take a minimum of six (6) credit hours of Natural Science and the laboratory science requirement) *
  • Humanities
  • Global Systems

See Signature Learning  Pathways for a complete listing of applicable cognate courses.