Roosevelt University

Social Entrepreneurship, BSBA

Click here for an update of this program's requirements for 2013-14.

To earn the degree in Business Administration with a major in Social Entrepreneurship, students must meet all the requirements for the BSBA degree, plus take six courses in the Social Entrepreneurship major listed below:

The requirements to enter into the Social Entrepreneurship major are listed below under the Business Requirements heading.

All six courses are required:

  MGMT 390 Social Entrepreneurship .....3
  MGMT 390 Special Topics: Social Entrepreneurship: Case Competition .....3
  MKTG 380 Special Topics: Business Planning and Strategic New Ventures .....3
  SOC 346 Community Organizing .....3
  SOC 367 Social Movements .....3
  SUST 340 Policy, Law, Ethics .....3

Recommended additional electives

  MKTG 340 Marketing Research .....3
  MKTG 350 Small Business Marketing Strategy and Planning .....3
  OLED 365 Social Justice, Commerce and Enterprise .....3
  SUST 210 Sustainable Future .....3
  SUST 220 Water .....3
  SUST 230 Food .....3
  SUST 240 Waste .....3
  SUST 320 Sprawl, Transport, Planning and other with permission .....3

Social Entrepreneurship majors are required to take SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology. It can count toward the Social Science requirement or as a free elective.

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General Education Requirements

For students entering with less than 30 semester hours

General Education Requirements

  One Natural Science course (excluding mathematics and computer science) .....3
  Two courses in Social and behavioral sciences (excluding ECON 101, ECON 102, ECON 234, and PSYC 200) .....6
  Two courses in Fine arts and humanities .....6
  Roosevelt Signature Course .....3
  One non-business Elective .....3
  ACP 101 First Year Seminar .....3
  ACP 110 Primary Texts .....3
  ECON 101 Principles of Economics I (grade of C- or better) .....3
  ECON 102 Principles of Economics II (grade of C- or better) .....3
  ECON 234 Elementary Statistics* .....3
  MATH 116 Finite Mathematics* (grade of C- or better) .....3
  MATH 121 College Algebra* .....3

University Writing Requirement

  Other courses, if necessary, to complete the University Writing Requirement .....
  ENG 101 Introduction to Composition (grade of C- or better) .....3
  ENG 102 Argument, Analysis, Research (grade of C- or better) .....3

* Higher-level mathematics may be substituted for MATH 116 and 121 with permission. ECON 234 may be replaced by MATH 217.

Business Requirements

Requirements

All freshmen/sophomore business requirements must be completed with grades of C- or higher. A 300-level business elective is substituted for the international perspective course if an international course is in the major. Mgmt 380 must be taken at Roosevelt and passed with a grade of C- or higher. One grade of D may be used in the remaining junior/senior core courses unless a C- is specifically required by the major.

Freshman/Sophomore Requirements

  ACCT 210 Introduction to Accounting I .....3
  ACCT 211 Introduction to Accounting II .....3
  BLAW 201 Business Law I .....3

Junior/Senior Requirements

  BADM 304 Business and Society .....3
  BCOM 301 Business Communications .....3
  FIN 311 Business Finance .....3
  INFS 330 Management Information Systems .....3
  MGMT 300 Operations Management .....3
  MGMT 308 Ethical Leadership and Corporate Responsibility .....3
  MGMT 358 Behavioral Science and Organization Theory .....3
  MGMT 380 Business Policy and Strategy .....3
  MKTG 302 Principles of Marketing .....3
International Perspective
  ACCT 337 International Accounting -OR- .....3
  FIN 354 International Financial Analysis -OR- .....3
  MGMT 360 Survey of International Business -OR- .....3
  MKTG 362 International Marketing Strategies .....3

Total

  General Education Requirements .....48
  General Business Requirements .....36
  Major Requirements - minimum of .....18
  Business or Non-Business Electives .....18
  Total minimum semester hours for BSBA (including general education requirements) .....120

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