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:

• 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 10A-B-C or MATH 20A-B-C

Business

• MGT/ECON 4. Financial Accounting
• MGT 5. Managerial Accounting

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

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 127. 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.