Naveen Jindal School of Management

Global Business and Supply Chain Management and Analytics (Double Major) (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Global Business and Supply Chain Management and Analytics (Double Major)

Degree Requirements (128 semester credit hours)¹

The Bachelor of Science in Global Business (BS GB) and Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and Analytics (BS SCM) double major is a minimum 128 semester credit hours degree program that prepares students to address supply chain issues in global markets. The program emphasizes building key skills and competencies of global supply chain professionals such as cross-cultural communication, global value chain and foreign laws and regulations. Students also gain analytical decision-making and problem-solving skills through real-life consulting and global supply chain projects, and internships.

An international experience² is required for all Global Business majors. Also, students are encouraged to complete up to 6 hours in a foreign language.

Faculty

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Professors: Ashiq Ali @axa042200, Alain Bensoussan @axb046100, Gary Bolton @gxb122130, Metín Çakanyildirim @metin, Huseyin Cavusoglu @huseyin, Jianqing Chen @jxc111031, William M. Cready @wmc041000, Milind Dawande @milind, Gregory G. Dess @ggd021000, Umit G. Gurun @ugg041000, Dorothée Honhon @dbh130130, Kyle Hyndman @tdp062000, Varghese S. Jacob @vjacob, Sanjay Jain @sxj164830, Ganesh Janakiraman @gxj091000, Elena Katok @emk120030, Dmitri Kuksov @dgk120030, Nanda Kumar @nkumar, Seung-Hyun Lee @sxl029100, Stanley Liebowitz @liebowit, Zhiang (John) Lin @zlin, Sumit K. Majumdar @skm021100, Stanimir Markov @sxm079200, Amit Mehra @axm078200, Syam Menon @sxm021300, Vijay S. Mookerjee @vijaym, B. P. S. Murthi @murthi, Vikram Nanda @vkn150030, Özalp Özer @oxo091000, Mike W. Peng @mxp059000, Hasan Pirkul @hpirkul, Cuili Qian @cxq170330, Suresh Radhakrishnan @sradhakr, Srinivasan Raghunathan @sraghu, Ram C. Rao @rrao, Brian Ratchford @btr051000, Michael J. Rebello @mjr071000, Gil Sadka @gxs143630, Sumit Sarkar @sumit, Suresh P. Sethi @sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke @kes021000, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang @wkt071000, Jun Xia @jxx132030, Ying Xie @yxx124930, Harold Zhang @hxz054000, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng @zxz062000

Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci @mua120030, Nina Baranchuk @nxb043000, Zhonglan Dai @zxd051000, Rebecca Files @rlf092000, Bin Hu @bxh180009, Surya N. Janakiraman @suryaj, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. @rkiesch, Atanu Lahiri @axl144730, Jun Li @jxl128031, Ningzhong Li @nxl124130, Maria Loumioti @mxl175830, Lívia Markóczy @lxm055000, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan @nataraj, Naim Bugra Ozel @nbo150030, H. Dennis Park @hxp174230, Anyan Qi @axq140430, Young U. Ryu @ryoung, Serdar Simsek @axs158032, Harpreet Singh @hxs104000, Upender Subramanian @uxs092000, Shaojie Tang @sxt146930, Shouqiang Wang @sxw163830, Kelsey D. Wei @kdw061000, Han (Victor) Xia @hxx110930, Yexiao Xu @yexiaoxu, Alejandro Zentner @axz051000, Jieying Zhang @jxz146230, Yuan Zhang @yxz122931, Zhe (James) Zhang @zxz145430, Feng Zhao @fxz082000, Yibin Zhou @yxz066000

Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong @kxc173030, Andrew Frazelle @aef180002, Ying Huang @yxh124430, Joonhwi Joo @jxj180020, Sora Jun @sxj177030, Jason Kautz @jdk200000, Sheen Levine @ssl140530, Meng Li @mxl120531, Jean-Marie Meier @jmm172030, Radha Mookerjee @rvm019000, Alejandro Rivera Mesias @axr150331, Alessio Saretto @axs125732, Simon Siegenthaler @sxs177933, Xiaoxiao Tang @xxt180003, Shervin Tehrani @sst180003, Ashwin Venkataraman @axv190029, Christian Von-Drathen @cxv141430, Guihua Wang @gxw130630, Junfeng Wu @jxw175430, Steven Xiao @sxx150930, Yingjie Zhang @yxz180067

Professor Emeritus: John J. Wiorkowski @wiorkow

Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison @harrison, Jane Salk @jes025000

Clinical Professors: John Barden @jpb063000, Abhijit Biswas @axb019100, Shawn Carraher @smc130730, Larry Chasteen @chasteen, Howard Dover @hfd021000, John Gamino @jpg140630, Randall S. Guttery @rxg112530, William Hefley @weh150130, Marilyn Kaplan @mkaplan, Sonia Leach @sel120030, Peter Lewin @plewin, Jeffrey Manzi @jxm158130, Diane S. McNulty @dmcnulty, Divakar Rajamani @dxr020100, Daniel Rajaratnam @dxr143430, Kannan Ramanathan @kxr087000, Mark Thouin @mxt083000, McClain Watson @jmw077000, Jeff Weekley @jaw160330, Habte Woldu @wolduh, Fang Wu @fxw052000, Laurie L. Ziegler @ziegler

Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz @sxa063000, Dawn Owens @dmo130130, Carolyn Reichert @carolyn, Avanti P. Sethi @asethi, Ramesh Subramoniam @rxs179630, Aysegul Toptal @axt083100, David Widdifield @dsw180001

Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei @axa134231, Moran Blueshtein @mxb135230, Jerome Gafford @jmg171130, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks @jnh061000, Revansiddha Khanapure @rbk160130, Liping Ma @lxm133730, Ravi Narayan @rln130030, Parneet Pahwa @pxp030100, Nassim Sohaee @nxs045000

Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour @sxa130731, Mary Beth Goodrich @goodrich, Chris Linsteadt @ccl019000, Matt Polze @mmp062000, Luell (Lou) Thompson @lot013000

Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury @jdb101000, Monica E. Brussolo @meb049000, Amal El-Ashmawi @ahe013000, Ayfer Gurun @axg119030, Maria Hasenhuttl @h1562, Julie Haworth @haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson @txh093000, Kathryn Lookadoo @kxl164330, Sarah Moore @sem054000, Mohammad Naseri Taheri @mxn121930, Hubert Zydorek @hxz120930

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar @nxe180001, Jennifer G. Johnson @jxj091000, Joseph Mauriello @jam151430, Victoria D. McCrady @vdm130030, Edward Meda @exm150330, Rasoul Ramezani @rxr145930, Gaurav Shekhar @gxs150130

Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz @tabortz, Ranavir Bose @rxb132730, Alexander Edsel @ade012000, Rajiv Shah @rxs079000

Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen @rxb073100, Jackie Kimzey @jxk092000, David Parks @dxp153830, Margaret Smallwood @meg012400, Steven Solcher @sjs107020, Kathy Zolton @kxz121730

Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi @kxa180010, Abu Naser Islam @nxi110630, Timothy Stephens @tgs170130, Guido Tirone @gxt170001, Robert Wright @rgw091000

Senior Lecturers: Juliann Chapman @jgc160130, Madison Pedigo @mfp013000

I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours³

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 I^{4, 5, 6, 7}

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses⁶ (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 hours

Choose one of the following:⁸

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{4, 5}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{4, 5}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{4, 5}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{4, 5}

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

Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Choose two of the following:⁸

MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II^{4, 5, 9}

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{4, 5}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{4, 5}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{4, 5}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{4, 5}

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

II. Major Requirements: 78-81 semester credit hours

Students must meet all course prerequisites.

Major Preparatory Courses: 15-18 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting⁴

ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting⁴

BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law⁴

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I^{4, 5, 6, 7}

OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis^{4, 10}

or MATH 2333 Matrices, Vectors, and Data^{4, 10}

OPRE 3340 Advanced Business Quantitative Methods^{4, 9, 11}

or MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II^{4, 5, 9, 12}

OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics

Choose two of the following:⁸

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{4, 5}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{4, 5}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{4, 5}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{4, 5}

Major Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours

BCOM 1300 Professional Communication¹³

or BCOM 3300 Business Communication¹³

BCOM 4300 Advanced Professional Communication

FIN 3320 Business Finance

IMS 3310 International Business

ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business

MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior

or OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management

OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management

Major Related Courses: 39 semester credit hours

BLAW 4301 International Law

FIN 3380 International Financial Management

IMS 4320 or MKT 4320 International Marketing

IMS 4330 Global Human Resource Management

IMS 4350 Global Market Entry Strategies

IMS 4373 Global Strategy

OPRE 3320 Integrated Supply Chain Management

OPRE 3330 Project Management

OPRE 4310 Lean and Six Sigma Processes

OPRE 4330 Global Logistics and Inventory Management

OPRE 4340 Purchasing and Sourcing Management

OPRE 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Supply Chain Management

or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business

or IMS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Global Business

or ENTP 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Entrepreneurship

Choose one from the following:

Any 3 semester credit hour JSOM faculty-led international trip course^{2, 14}

IMS 4310 Export Market Development¹⁴

IMS 4340 Managing Global Teams

IMS 4V94 Seminar Series in International Management

III. Elective Requirements: 5-8 semester credit hours

The courses listed below can satisfy elective requirements in prior BS GLBS/SCMT double major catalogs if not used elsewhere on the degree plan. With advanced written permission from the BS SCM program director, 3 semester credit hours of equivalent or similar upper-level courses from a global business/operations perspective not used elsewhere on the degree plan may fulfill one elective.

A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required, with registration in one of the courses below. Depending on the internship and preference for additional electives, the student may qualify for a zero to 3 semester credit hours course with the BS GLBS Program Director's approval.

IMS 4V90 Management Internship²

IMS 4090 Management Internship²

BA 4090 Management Internship^{15, 16}

BA 4V90 Management Internship¹⁶

A community engagement experience is required, with registration in one of the courses below. Depending on the service and preference for additional electives, the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours.

IMS 4335 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or BPS 4396 Social Impact 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

Choose from the following to fulfill the remaining Elective semester credit hours:¹²

Any Faculty-Led International Study Trip course^{2, 14}

ENTP 4311 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Business Models

FIN 3350 Financial Markets and Institutions

IMS 4310 Export Market Development¹⁴

OBHR 4310 Business Ethics

OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

OPRE 3311 Introduction to Programming

OPRE 3312 Object-Oriented Programming

OPRE 3370 Managing Sustainable Operations

OPRE 4320 Integrated SCM Information Systems

OPRE 4337 Marketing Analytics

OPRE 4345 Retail Operations

OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics

OPRE 4353 Business Analytics

OPRE 4362 Supply Chain Strategy

The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.

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. Global Business majors may complete their international experience with any of the following: a semester studying abroad, with 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); A JSOM faculty-led international trip courses ("Regional Management Area Studies"); or an international internship (IMS 4090 or IMS 4V90).

3. 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.

4. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.

5. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.

6. MATH 1325 is required for all JSOM undergraduate students. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417 for MATH 1325.

7. 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.

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

9. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 for OPRE 3340 or MATH 1326. Students who choose OPRE 3340 instead of MATH 1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 will require an additional 090 Core Curriculum course.

10. Students may substitute MATH 2418 or CS 2305 for OPRE 3333 or MATH 2333.

11. Electives of 5 to 8 semester credit hours are required for the B.S. in Global Business and Supply Chain Management and Analytics. Students who choose MATH 1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 instead of OPRE 3340 will require a total of 8 semester credit hours of electives to meet the 120 semester credit hour requirement for graduation. Students who choose OPRE 3340 instead of MATH 1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 will require another 090 Component Area Option Core Curriculum course and a total of 5 semester credit hours of free electives to meet the 120 semester credit hour requirement for graduation.

12. Electives of 5 to 8 semester credit hours are required for the B.S. in Global Business and Supply Chain Management and Analytics. Students who choose MATH 1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 instead of OPRE 3340 will require a total of 8 semester credit hours of electives to meet the 120 semester credit hour requirement for graduation. Students who choose OPRE 3340 instead of MATH1326 or MATH 2414 or MATH 2419 will require another 090 Component Area Option Core Curriculum course and a total of 5 semester credit hours of free electives to meet the 120 semester credit hour requirement for graduation.

13. 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.

14. Course may fulfill an elective if not used in Major Related Core or elsewhere on the student's degree plan.

15. Student employed in full-time jobs may fulfill their internship requirement with their current employer as a special project with preapproval from their program director.

16. BA 4090 or BA 4V90 will not fulfill the international experience requirement. Double major students are recommended to complete IMS 4090 or IMS 4V90 to satisfy both internship and international experience requirements.