UT Dallas 2022 Undergraduate Catalog

Naveen Jindal School of Management

Global Business and International Political Economy (Double Major) (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Global Business and International Political Economy (Double Major)

Degree Requirements (137 semester credit hours)1, 2

An international experience3 is required for all Global Business majors. For additional information, please contact the Global Business Program Director.

EPPS Faculty

Professors: Brian J. L. Berry, Patrick T. Brandt, Paul Diehl, Euel W. Elliott, Jennifer S. Holmes, Dohyeong Kim, Clint W. Peinhardt, Richard K. Scotch

Associate Professors: Jonas Bunte, Simon M. Fass

Assistant Professors: Thomas Gray, Lauren Santoro

Professors Emeriti: Lloyd J. Dumas, Donald A. Hicks, Murray J. Leaf

Associate Professor of Instruction: Karl K. Ho

JSOM Faculty

Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Stanimir Markov, Amit Mehra, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Cuili Qian, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Gil Sadka, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng

Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Bin Hu, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Maria Loumioti, Lívia Markóczy, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Anyan Qi, Young U. Ryu, Serdar Simsek, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou

Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Jason Kautz, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang

Professor Emeritus: John J. Wiorkowski

Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk

Clinical Professors: John Barden, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, Diane S. McNulty, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler

Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield

Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Jerome Gafford, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Nassim Sohaee

Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson

Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Hubert Zydorek

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Jennifer G. Johnson, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Rasoul Ramezani, Gaurav Shekhar

Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz, Ranavir Bose, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah

Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen, Jackie Kimzey, David Parks, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton

Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi, Abu Naser Islam, Robert (Stephen) Molina, Timothy Stephens, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright

Senior Lecturers: Juliann Chapman, Madison Pedigo

I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours4

Communication: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses (see advisor)

Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I5, 6, 7, 8

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses (see advisor)

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

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses (see advisor)

Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours9

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics4, 5, 6

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses (see advisor)

Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours9

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics4, 5, 6

BA 1320 Business in a Global World4, 5, 6

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses (see advisor)

II. Major Requirements: 95 semester credit hours

Global Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum9

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, 8

OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics

Major Core Courses: 27 semester credit hours

BCOM 1300 Introduction to Professionalism and Communication in Business10

or BCOM 3300 Professionalism and Communication in Business10

BCOM 4300 Managing Communications in Business

IMS 3310 International Business

FIN 3320 Business Finance

ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business

OPRE 3310 Operations Management

OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior

or OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management

MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

IMS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Global Business

or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business

or ENTP 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Entrepreneurship

Major Related Courses: 12 semester credit hours

IMS 4350 Global Market Entry Strategies

Choose three courses from the following:

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: 11 semester credit hours

A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required; the student has the option of zero to 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular internship, and preference for additional electives.3

IMS 4V90 Management Internship

IMS 4090 Management Internship

BA 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.

IMS 4335 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or MKT 4360 Social Impact Marketing

or BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum

Students should choose 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. Global Business majors may complete their international experience with any of the following: a semester studying abroad taking at least 9 semester credit hours applicable to their major (NOTE: study abroad courses are subject to a pre-approval process to ensure transferability to their major); 2 JSOM faculty-led trip courses ("Regional Management Area Studies"); or an international internship (IMS 4090 or IMS 4V90).

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. In order to make timely degree progress, students should complete MATH 1325 or its equivalent by the end of their first semester at UT Dallas. Students who will not meet this requirement should contact their academic advisor to discuss their degree timeline.

9. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core, major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.

10. JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BCOM 1300 in their first semester. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BCOM 3300 in their first semester.

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