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Brief Overview of BBA Requirements

As a BBA candidate, you must complete the General Education Core and Graduation requirements pertinent to the year that you entered the University of Hawaii system. For detailed information on all requirements, you may check your specific Program Sheet.

You should note that prerequisites and sequencing of courses are strictly enforced. For course descriptions and prerequisites, check the University Catalog.

The Business Core

  • BLAW 200: Legal Environment of Business
  • BUS 310: Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
  • BUS 311: Information Systems for Global Business Environment
  • BUS 312: Principles of Marketing
  • BUS 313: Economic and Financial Environment of Global Business
  • BUS 314: Business Finance
  • BUS 315: Global Management and Organizational Behavior
  • BUS 345: Strategic Management

Graduation Credits

You must earn 124 non-repeated college credits to earn your Bachelor of Business Administration. Roughly 60 credits will be earned after you enter the Shidler College of Business.

The Business Majors - Requirements

5 – 8 courses

Accounting - Requirements

  • ACC 305
  • ACC 321
  • ACC 323
  • ACC 401
  • ACC 409 (for students entering the College of Business in Fall 2004 or later)
  • ACC 418

School of Accounting Website www.hawaii.edu/soa

Entrepreneurship - Requirements

  • MGT 320
  • FIN 341
  • MKT 372
  • Any 2 of the following:
    MGT 345, MGT 461, MGT 450, MGT 321, MGT 341, MGT 344, MGT 351, ITM 385, MKT 363, MKT 362, ,MKT 341, MKT 551, MKT 352, FIN 307

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Finance - Requirements

  • FIN 311
  • Any 4 of the following:
    FIN 301, 305, 307, 321, 330, 331, 341, 360, 367, 389, 412, 415, 444, 470, 490;
    INS 300, 311, 331; RE 300, 310, 320, 330, 340 351, 390

For course descriptions and prerequisites, check...

  • University of Hawaii Catalog
  • Department of Financial Economics and Institutions

Human Resource Management - Requirements

  • HRM 351
  • HRM 361
  • Any 3 of the following:
    HRM 353, 354, 453, 455, 463, 465, 467, 469;
    MGT 341, 344, 350
    [HRM 353, 354, 453 and 455 are strongly recommended]

Management and Industrial Relations Website www.shidler.hawaii.edu/mir

International Business - Requirements

Note that International Business may be taken only as a double major only (that is, along with one of the other business majors)

  • FIN 321
  • MGT 343 or 342
  • MKT 381
  • And any two of the following:
    BUS 477 (3 credits only), BLAW 360, FIN 331, 344, 360 (if taught with international focus), 389, 470, 490C;
    IR 469; MGT 342, 344 (if taught with international focus), 350B, 460;
    MKT 361 (if taught with international focus), 411C; ANTH 416; ASAN 312, 320; ECON 405, 410, 415, 460, 461;
    POLS 306, 315, 316; TIM 324, 325, 361, 362, 421, 442; Third-year foreign language (301-302)

Also required is an integrative, international experience as met by one of the following:

  • An international internship (BUS 395). This could be either an internship in a foreign country or a domestic internship with a multinational corporation.
  • A directed reading/research course (399) with an international focus under the supervision of a Shidler College of Business faculty member.
  • Participation in an international exchange program or BUS 477.
  • Completion of the third year of a foreign language.

Management and Industrial Relations Website www.shidler.hawaii.edu/mir

Management - Requirements

  • MGT 320
  • MGT 341
  • HRM 351
  • Any two of the following:
    MGT 321, 322, 342, 343, 344, 345, 348, 450, 461;
    MKT 321;
    HRM 353, 354 361, 453 455, 465, 467, 469

Department of Management and Industrial Relations Website www.shidler.hawaii.edu/mir

Marketing - Requirements

  • MKT 311
  • MKT 321 (may be taken for those students who double major in marketing and management)
  • MKT 391
  • Any two of the following:
    MKT 331, 332, 341, 351, 352, 361, 362, 363, 371, 381, 410, 411.

Department of Marketing Website www.shidler.hawaii.edu/mkt

Management Information Systems - Requirements

  • ITM 352
  • ITM 353
  • ITM 354
  • ITM 431
  • ITM 366
  • ACC 409 (may be used as a technical elective for those students who double major in Accounting and MIS)
  • ITM technical elective – one of the following:
    ITM 360, 385 or 387;
    MKT 362, 363 or 410 may be taken for those students who double major in marketing and management information systems.
    A ICS 300 or 400 level course (excluding ICS 399 or ICS 499) may also satisfy this requirement.

Department of Information Technology Management Website Department of Information Technology Management
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences www.hicss.hawaii.edu - opens in a new window

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