| Course Number | Course Title | Course Description | Credits |
| ENG 101 | Composition (or comparable Composition class) | Provides instruction, guidance, and feedback for the fundamental principles of effective expository writing. Topics include elements of content, organization, writing conventions, and format, applied to areas of the business core program. | 3 |
| ENG 103 | Business Writing (or comparable Composition class) | Emphasizes audience, tone, development, discourse, and vocabulary appropriate to writing for business purposes. Students employ writing topics applied to areas of the business core program. Prerequisite: ENG101. | 3 |
| SPC 101 | Business Presentations (or comparable Speech class) | Prepares students to develop and deliver presentations to yield results within informative, persuasive, goodwill, sales, and training venues. The course includes preparing charts and graphs, running productive meetings, and effective public speaking. | 3 |
| ECO 201 | Macroeconomics (or comparable lower division economics class) | Addresses effects of the national economy on business cycles in regard to growth, inflation, and unemployment. Students consider how these factors are related to micro-level performance. | 3 |
| POL 101 | U.S Government (or other 100 level or above political science class) | Reviews the structure and functions of the U.S. government and the system of checks and balances with regard to federal power. The course distinguishes the types of authority that are left to the individual states. | 3 |
| PSY 101 | Psychology (or other 100 level or above psychology class) | Introduces basic theoretical constructs of psychology that explain mental processes and behavior. Students compare various schools of thought regarding perception, cognition, emotion, personality, and interpersonal relationships. | 3 |
| PHL 101 | Business Ethics (or other 100 level or above philosophy class) | Analyzes practical moral dilemmas that arise in business environments and the ethical principles that guide resolution of them. Students examine issues from multiple points of view in order to describe the role of business ethics as reconciling conflicting interests. | 3 |
| BIO 101 | Environmental Studies I (with lab) (or other 100 level or above physical science class) | Identifies ways in which humans interact with and impact their environment, including natural, constructed, and cultural surroundings. Students consider relationships among these environments that give rise to diverse business and economic circumstances. There is a lab component in this course. | 3 |
| MAT 101 | Introductory Algebra (or other 100 level or above math or statistics class) | Introduces fundamental algebra concepts. Topics include integers; fractions, decimals, and percentages; algebra notation and symbols; solving equations with roots and powers; linear equations and inequalities; graphing and linear systems; exponents and polynomials; and factoring. | 3 |