General Business (GBA)
 
Program of Study at USF Sarasota-Manatee

Students attending Manatee Community College should complete the Associate of Arts degree and include:

State Mandated Common Course Prerequisites:

ACG 2021 Principles of Financial Accounting (or ACG 2001 & ACG 2011)
ACG 2071 Principles of Managerial Accounting
CGS 1000 Computer Information Systems (or CGS 2100)
ECO 2013 Macroeconomics
ECO 2023 Microeconomics
MAC 2233 Applied Calculus
STA  2023 Elementary Statistics (or QMB 2100)

NOTE: To be admitted to the College of Business, the student must first be accepted to the University of South Florida. Additionally, students must have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours, earned a 2.50 cumulative grade point average, a minimum 2.0 GPA on all credit attempted at USF, completed the seven state mandated common prerequisites with a 2.00 GPA and no grade lower than a "C-".  
Admission requirements may be subject to change.  Please check with Academic Advising for the current criteria.

The Business Core common to all majors in business consists of the 15 hours  of prerequisites plus the following (3-hour) courses:*

FIN 3403 Principles of Finance
QMB 3200 Business and Economics Statistics II
BUL 3320 Law and Business I
ISM 3011 Info Systems in Organizations
MAR 3023 Basic Marketing
MAN 3025 Principles of Management
GEB 4890 Strategic Mgmt & Decision Making

*Students must earn a C- or higher in each business core course & a 2.0 cumulative business core GPA.

Complete two concentrations each with 12 hrs and a 2.00 GPA in each.

Accounting:
ACG 3103 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACG 3341 Cost Accounting and Control I
ACG 3401 Acounting Information Systems
TAX 4001  Concepts of Federal Income Taxation
(all 12 hours must be taken at USF with grades of at least C, not C-)

Economics:
12 hrs upper level ECO electives
(except ECO 3100, 3101, or QMB 3200

Finance:
FIN 4303 Financial Institutions and Markets
FIN 4504 Principles of Investments
FIN 4414 Adv. Corp Finance
Plus 3 hrs upper level FIN, REE, RMI electives

Management:
MAN 3240 Organizational Behavioral Analysis
MAN 3301 Human Resource Management
MAN 4282 Organizational Assessment
MAN 4600 International Management

Marketing:
MAR 3823 Marketing Management
Plus 9 hrs upper level MKT electives

Management information Systems:
ISM 3113 Syst Analy & Design
ISM 4212 Database Admin
Plus 6 hrs approved ISM elective

Also required for a General Business (GBA) major:
*Advanced Writing course
*Speech Communication
*Contemporary International topic course

NOTE: Students must be admitted to the College of Business at least one term before their anticipated graduation date.

To be certified for graduation, students must achieve a 2.0 grade point average in the major field work, as well as all other college work attempted, both at USF and any other institution(s) attended.

American Sign Language is not approved by the College of Business for the Foreign Language Exit Requirement (FLEX).

All courses in the major or minor field and all foundation courses in business must be taken on a graded basis; the S/U option is not available.