School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
International Political Economy and Global Business (Double Major) (BS)
Bachelor of Science in International Political Economy and Global Business (Double Major)
Degree Requirements (137 semester credit hours)1, 2
A minimum of 9 semester credit hours must be earned during a semester of study abroad. Any 9 semester credit hours from the degree plan may be chosen, however, students should be aware that study abroad courses are subject to a pre-approval process to ensure transferability.3
EPPS Faculty
Professors: Brian J. L. Berry , Patrick T. Brandt , Paul Diehl , Lloyd J. Dumas , Euel W. Elliott , Donald A. Hicks , Jennifer S. Holmes , Murray J. Leaf , Clint W. Peinhardt , Richard K. Scotch
Associate Professors: Jonas Bunte , Simon M. Fass , Dohyeong Kim
Clinical Associate Professors: Karl K. Ho
Assistant Professors: Vito D'Orazio , Thomas Gray , Lauren Santoro
JSOM Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali , Alain Bensoussan , Gary Bolton , Metín Çakanyildirim , Huseyin Cavusoglu , Daniel A. Cohen , William M. Cready , Milind Dawande , Theodore E. Day , Gregory G. Dess , Umit G. Gurun , Ernan E. Haruvy , Varghese S. Jacob , Sanjay Jain , Ganesh Janakiraman , Elena Katok , Dmitri Kuksov , Nanda Kumar , Seung-Hyun Lee , Stanley Liebowitz , Zhiang (John) Lin , Sumit K. Majumdar , Syam Menon , Vijay S. Mookerjee , B. P. S. Murthi , Vikram Nanda , Özalp Özer , Mike W. Peng , Hasan Pirkul , Suresh Radhakrishnan , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Ram C. Rao , Brian Ratchford , Michael J. Rebello , Sumit Sarkar , Suresh P. Sethi , Kathryn E. Stecke , Riki Takeuchi , Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang , Harold Zhang , Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
Clinical Professors: John Barden , Britt Berrett , Abhijit Biswas , Ranavir Bose , Pamela Foster Brady , Shawn Carraher , Larry Chasteen , Paul Convery , David Cordell , Kutsal Dogan , Howard Dover , Forney Fleming III , John Gamino , Randall S. Guttery , Charles Hazzard , William Hefley , Robert Hicks , Gerald (Jerry) Hoag , Marilyn Kaplan , Ching-Chung Kuo , Sonia Leach , Peter Lewin , Jeffrey Manzi , John F. McCracken , Dennis McCuistion , Diane S. McNulty , Divakar Rajamani , Daniel Rajaratnam , David Ritchey , Rajiv Shah , Mark Thouin , Keith Thurgood , Jeff Weekley , Habte Woldu , Fang Wu , Laurie L. Ziegler
Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci , Nina Baranchuk , Norris Bruce , Jianqing Chen , Zhonglan Dai , Rebecca Files , Xianjun Geng , J. Richard Harrison , Dorothée Honhon , Kyle Hyndman , Surya N. Janakiraman , Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. , Atanu Lahiri , Jun Li , Ningzhong Li , Lívia Markóczy , Amit Mehra , Toyah Miller , Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan , Naim Bugra Ozel , H. Dennis Park , Valery Polkovnichenko , Cuili Qian , Orlando C. Richard , Young U. Ryu , Gil Sadka , Jane Salk , Harpreet Singh , David J. Springate , Upender Subramanian , Kelsey D. Wei , Han (Victor) Xia , Jun Xia , Ying Xie , Yexiao Xu , Alejandro Zentner , Jieying Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Feng Zhao , Yibin Zhou
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz , Steven Guengerich , Lale Guler , Dawn Owens , David Parks , Carolyn Reichert , Avanti P. Sethi , Kelly Slaughter , Jeanne Sluder , James Szot , McClain Watson
Assistant Professors: Qi (George) Chen , Khai Chiong , Emily Choi , Bernhard Ganglmair , Nathan Goldman , Ying Huang , Sora Jun , Sheen Levine , Meng Li , Xiaolin Li , Maria Loumioti , Jean-Marie Meier , Radha Mookerjee , Anyan Qi , Alejandro Rivera Mesias , Alessio Saretto , Simon Siegenthaler , Serdar Simsek , Shaojie Tang , Christian Von-Drathen , Shouqiang Wang , Malcolm Wardlaw , Junfeng Wu , Steven Xiao , Shengqi Ye , Nir Yehuda , Zhe (James) Zhang , Xiaofei Zhao
Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei , Christina (Krysta) Betanzos , Moran Blueshtein , Judd Bradbury , Jerome Gafford , Ayfer Gurun , Maria Hasenhuttl , Julie Haworth , Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks , Revansiddha Khanapure , Kristen Lawson , Kathryn Lookadoo , Liping Ma , Sarah Moore , Ravi Narayan , Parneet Pahwa , Jason Parker , Drew Peabody , Nassim Sohaee
Senior Lecturers: Semiramis Amirpour , Frank Anderson , Vivek Arora , Tiffany A. Bortz , Richard Bowen , Monica E. Brussolo , Juliann Chapman , George DeCourcy , Eugene (Gene) Deluke , Alexander Edsel , Amal El-Ashmawi , Carol Flannery , Mary Beth Goodrich , Thomas (Tom) Henderson , Jennifer G. Johnson , Jackie Kimzey , Chris Linsteadt , Joseph Mauriello , Victoria D. McCrady , Edward Meda , Robert (Stephen) Molina , Prithi Narasimhan , Mohammad Naseri Taheri , Madison Pedigo , Matt Polze , James Richards , Debra Richardson , Anindita Roy Bardhan , Kashif Saeed , Margaret Smallwood , Steven Solcher , Luell (Lou) Thompson , Amy L. Troutman , Robert Wright , Kathy Zolton , Hubert Zydorek
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours4
Communication: 6 semester credit hours
COMM 1311 Survey of Oral and Technology-based Communication
Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I5, 6, 7
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture core courses (see advisor)
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts core courses (see advisor)
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History core courses (see advisor)
Government / Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
GOVT 2305 American National Government
GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours8
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics4, 5, 6
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours8
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics4, 5, 6
BA 1320 Business in a Global World4, 5, 6
II. Major Requirements: 95 semester credit hours
Global Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum8
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting5
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting5
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law5
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics4, 5, 6
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics4, 5, 6
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I5, 6, 7
STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
or OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Major Core Courses: 26 semester credit hours
BA 1100 Business Basics and IMS 3100 Professional Development9
or IMS 3200 Introduction to Business and Professional Development9
BCOM 3310 Business Communication
BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communication
FIN 3320 Business Finance
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
OPRE 3310 Operations Management
OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
or OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
IMS 3310 International Business
Major Related Courses: 12 semester credit hours
IMS 4320 or MKT 4320 International Marketing
FIN 3380 International Financial Management
IMS 4330 Global Human Resource Management
IMS 4373 Global Strategy
International Political Economy (IPEC) Core Courses: 21 semester credit hours
Choose seven courses from the following:
ECON 3310 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON 3311 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
ECON 4360 International Trade
IPEC 3349 World Resources and Development
IPEC 4301 Political Economy of Industrialized Countries
IPEC 4302 Political Economy of Developing Countries
PSCI 4329 Global Politics
PSCI 4356 International Political Economy
PSCI 4360 The Political Economy of Multinational Corporations
Foreign Language Requirement: 12 semester credit hours of the same language
If the language credit is obtained without taking classes, twelve additional semester credit hours of Free Electives (upper-division or lower-division) can be taken by student.
Upper-Division Major Related Electives: 12 semester credit hours
A practicum experience is required; the student has the option of zero to 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular internship, and preference for additional electives.
IMS 4V90 Management Internship
IMS 4090 Management Internship
A community engagement experience is required; the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular experience, and preference for additional electives.
ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
All students are required to take at least twelve semester credit hours of electives from IPEC or other approved courses to fulfill remaining Elective semester credit hours.
Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives but students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to qualify for graduation.
1. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
2. Degree is 138 hours if students are required to take EPPS 1110.
3. Students with non-academic obligations (for example, full time jobs) who cannot study abroad for an entire semester may request a waiver to substitute 6 semester credit hours of faculty led study trips (IMS 3V91, IMS 3V92, IMS 3V93, IMS 3V94, IMS 3V95, IMS 3V96). An international internship may also be substituted for the semester of study abroad.
4. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
5. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
6. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
7. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417.
8. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core (e.g., BA 1320 or ECON 2301 for IMS 3310), major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.
9. JSOM freshmen are required to take BA 1100 and IMS 3100. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take IMS 3200.