International Studies – International Business

International Studies majors are required to demonstrate basic proficiency in a foreign language.  This can be accomplished in one of the following ways:

Language course may be taken for a letter grade or Pass/No Pass, students must earn either a C- or better or a Pass. All other courses for major requirements must be taken for a letter grade of C- or above.

• Completion of the fourth quarter college-level foreign language course
• Proficiency Exam
• AP Language or Literature Exam
• IB Language Exam
• SAT II Language Exam
• Graduation from high school outside of the United States

All lower division pre-requisite courses must be taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

Calculus

• MATH-010A
• MATH-010B
• MATH-010C

• MATH-020A
• MATH-020B
• MATH-020C

Not sure what MATH course to take? Review the MathWays page

Business

• MGT/ECON-004. Financial Accounting
• MGT-005. Managerial Accounting

Note: These lower division courses are only required for those with an International Business Disciplinary Focus.

International Studies Core Courses (3 courses)

All courses are 4-units and must be taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

For Students Beginning the INTL Course Sequence in Fall 2024:

• INTL-100. Analysis, Argument, and Real World Problems 
• INTL-101. Culture and Society in International Perspective (Prerequisite: INTL-100)
• INTL-102. Economics, Politics, and International Change (Prerequisite: INTL-100)
  •  INTL-190 seminars with a regional/country focus may be taken to fulfill an ISP regional requirement.

INTL-102 may be taken before INTL-101.

For ISP Students who have already taken INT-101 and/or INTL-102 by Spring 2024:

• INTL-101. Culture and Society in International Perspective
• INTL-102. Economics, Politics, and International Change
• INTL-190. Seminar in International Studies (Prerequisites: INTL-101 and INTL-102)

INTL-102 may be taken before INTL-101. Both INTL-101 and INTL-102 must be completed before INTL-190. The INTL core courses must be taken at UC San Diego.

You may not take INTL-100 instead of INTL-190.

Rady School of Management Annual Tentative Course Offerings

All eight (8) courses must be 4 units, upper division and taken for a letter grade of C- or better.

The following five (5) courses are required:

• MGT-103. Product Marketing and Management
• MGT-181. Enterprise Finance --OR-- MGT-187. New Venture Finance
  
  • If you wish to pursue the BA/MIA Program, you must take MGT-181, not MGT-187
  • Students cannot apply both MGT-181 and MGT-187 to major requirements
• MGT-112. Global Business Strategy
• MGT-164. Business and Organizational Leadership
• MGT-166. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

The remaining three (3) elective courses must be selected from the following lists. Students may take courses from multiple categories, all three do not need to be from one category:

Accounting

• MGT-131A. Intermediate Accounting A
• MGT-131B. Intermediate Accounting B
• MGT-132. Auditing
• MGT-133. Advanced Cost Accounting
• MGT-134. Federal Taxation - Individuals
• MGT-135. Federal Taxation - Companies
• MGT-136. Advanced Accounting
• MGT-137. Financial Statement Analysis*
• MGT-139. Accounting Information Systems
• MGT-147. Not-for-profit and Government Accounting*

Entrepreneurship

• MGT-121A. Innovation to Market (A)
• MGT-121B. Innovation to Market (B)
• MGT-127R. Innovation and Technology Strategy
• MGT-128R. Business Innovation and Growth
• MGT-160. Experiments in Firms*
• MGT-162(R). Negotiations*
• MGT-167. Social Entrepreneurship

Finance

• MGT-176. Strategic Cost Management*
• MGT-180. Business Finance*
• MGT-183. Financial Investments
• MGT-184. Money and Banking
• MGT-185. Investment Banking
• MGT-189. Topics in Finance*

Marketing

• MGT-100. Customer Analytics*
• MGT-102. E-Commerce *
• MGT-105. Product Promotion and Brand Management
• MGT-106. Sales and Sales Management
• MGT-107. Consumer Behavior* 
• MGT-108R. Applied Market Research*
• MGT-109. Topics in Marketing*

Operations

• MGT-148. Mergers and Acquisitions*
• MGT-153: Business Analytics
• MGT-171. Operations Management
• MGT-172. Business Project Management
• MGT-173. Project Management: Health Services
• MGT-175. Supply Chain Management

Topics

• MGT-117. Business Law*
• MGT-119. Topics in Business*
• MGT-158. Real Estate and the Tech Sector*

Note: Students must submit petitions to Rady Undergraduate Advising for equivalency to any of the five (5) required MGT courses. Petitions for MGT electives must be submitted to ISP Advising for review. 

* Newly added course as of Fall 2023. Please send VAC message to ISP for degree audit update

All three (3) courses must be upper division, 4 units and taken for a letter grade of C- or better. All three (3) Interdisciplinary Elective courses must focus on one region.

Courses must be selected from the approved Regional Requirement Course List.

• Note: All courses must be selected from departments outside of the disciplinary focus department.
• This requirement is an overlap requirement comprised of courses that count for both the Interdisciplinary Elective courses and the Regional Requirement.
• Possible regions include: Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.

Course Pre-requisites: Students are responsible for meeting all departmental pre-requisite courses.  Please refer to the General Catalog for additional information.