Naveen Jindal School of Management
Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence and Marketing (Double Major) (BS)
Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence and Marketing (Double Major)
Degree Requirements (128 semester credit hours)
Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, 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, 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, Riki Takeuchi, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Michael Hasler, 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, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Rafael Copat, Soraya Fatehi, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Jason Kautz, Tongil Kim, Sheen Levine, Christopher Mace, Samir Mamadehussene, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Jedson Pinto, Ignacio Rios Uribe, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Simon Siegenthaler, Kirti Sinha, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Guihua Wang, Hongchang Wang, Pingle Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang
Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk, David J. Springate
Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Paul Convery, Howard Dover, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Robert Hicks, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, John McCracken, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield
Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Christina (Krysta) Betanzos, Moran Blueshtein, Jerome Gafford, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Jason Parker, Nassim Sohaee
Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson
Associate Professors of Instruction: Vivek Arora, Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Hubert Zydorek
Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Joseph Mauriello, Rasoul Ramezani, Gaurav Shekhar
Professors of Practice: Gregory Ballew, 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, Steven Haynes, Abu Naser Islam, Edward Meda, Paul Nichols, Timothy Stephens, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright
Students must meet all course prerequisites.
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours
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.
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 I1, 2
Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses
Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Option courses
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
Choose one of the following:
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2
BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2
Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
Choose one of the following:
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2
BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2
And select 3 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core
Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses
II. Major Requirements: 86 semester credit hours
Major Preparatory Courses: 19 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting1
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting1
BA 1104 First-Year Seminar in Management (Required in the first fall semester)
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law1
ITSS 3311 Introduction to Programming3
OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis4
OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty4
Complete the following courses if not already completed as part of the Core Curriculum Requirements
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I1, 2 (Required for all JSOM undergraduate students. May elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417 for MATH 1325.)
Choose two of the following if not completed in Core Curriculum:
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems1, 2
BA 1320 Business in a Global World1, 2
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics1, 2
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics1, 2
Major Core Courses: 28 semester credit hours
BA 1105 Professional Development (JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BA 1105 in their first spring semester)
or BA 3105 Professional Development (Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BA 3105 in their first semester)
BCOM 3300 Business Communication
BUAN 3301 AI in Business
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 Human Resource Management in Business
OPRE 3310 Supply Chain and Operations Management
Experiential Learning
A capstone course is required for all undergraduate JSOM students
BUAN 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business Analytics
or MKT 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Marketing
or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business
A practicum experience of at least 160 working hours is required, with registration in one of the courses below.
BUAN 4090 Business Analytics Internship5
or MKT 4090 Marketing Internship5
Students are required to complete 100 hours of community engagement experience with registration in one of the courses below
BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum6
Major Related Courses: 39 semester credit hours
BUAN 4320 Database Fundamentals for Analytics
BUAN 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence
BUAN 4353 Business Analytics
or MKT 4337 Marketing Analytics
BUAN 4355 Data Visualization
BUAN 4373 Data Science for Business Applications
BUAN 4381 Object Oriented Programming with Python
BUAN 4383 Machine Learning for Business Analytics
MKT 3330 Fundamentals of Professional Selling
MKT 3340 Marketing Research
MKT 3336 Retail Marketing
MKT 4330 Digital and Internet Marketing
MKT 4341 Predictive Analytics
MKT 3341 A.I. Within the Sales Technology Landscape or
or MKT 4339 AI-Driven Content Creation and Campaign Management
or MKT 4390 Advanced Marketing Analytics
The plan must include sufficient upper-division courses to total 45 upper-division semester credit hours.
1. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
2. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
3. Completion of CS 1436 and/or CS 1337 with a C or better will satisfy ITSS 3311 with an additional 3 semester credit hours of ITSS upper-division courses (excluding ITSS 4301 and ITSS 4V90).
4. Students may use ENGR 2300, TE 2305, MATH 2418, or MATH 2333 as a substitute for OPRE 3333. Students may use CS 3341, ENGR, 3341, SE 3341, STAT 3341, STAT 2332, STAT 3355, STAT 3360, or STAT 4351 as a substitute for OPRE 3360.
5. Students may fulfill the internship requirement with BUAN 4090, MKT 4090, BUAN 4V90 (1-3 semester credit hours), or MKT 4V90 (1-3 semester credit hours). The zero-semester credit hour course BUAN 4090 or MKT 4090 are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy this requirement. If the variable credit internship engagement option is taken, semester credit hours apply as free elective credit towards degree requirements.
6. Students may fulfill the community engagement requirement with BA 4095 or ENTP 4340. The zero-semester credit hour course BA 4095 is recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy this requirement. If the variable credit community engagement option is taken, semester credit hours apply as free elective credit towards degree requirements.