UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNDERGRADUATE Academic Degree Requirements 2013 2013 Questions? Call 303-492-6515 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER Overview of the preparation for today’s competitive job and the Wall Street Journal from 1889 to the Leeds School of Business market. One-on-one coaching and workshops present. Today’s business leaders must be able to help students to clarify objectives, polish The Information Commons is open to think critically, communicate effectively, resumes, and enhance job-search abilities, students twenty-four hours a day for research adapt to and lead change, act ethically, value and provide students with a competitive and study and houses the Trep Café, a diversity, and act competitively in the global edge in the marketplace. Visit http://leeds. student-run coffee bar. economy. The Leeds School of Business colorado.edu/careerconnections for more Leeds’ Douglas Buck Electronic Media teaches students these skills, allowing you information on services offered. Center is devoted to on-line resources and to enter the marketplace with a compact disc subscriptions. They solid business foundation and the are accessible through the center’s promise of a thriving career. workstations and the campus The undergraduate program computer network. focuses on developing management The Koelbel building houses skills and proficiency in analytical computer classrooms with state- thinking and decision analysis. In of-the-art projection systems, and addition, the program includes a multimedia capabilities and is broad liberal arts component. Areas connected to the campus wireless of emphasis available in the college network. Students work with the include: Accounting, Finance, most current Microsoft software Marketing and Management including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, with tracks in Human Resources, Access, SPSS, and SAS statistical Operations, or Information analysis packages. Management. Students who complete their Internships allow students to take Undergraduate Degree coursework earn a Bachelor of Science (BS) advantage of the region’s thriving business Requirements degree in Business Administration. climate and integrate career management • Complete at least 120 credit hours toward In addition to one of the four areas of skills with the knowledge they gain in the graduation. emphasis, students may also pursue an area classroom. The Boulder-Denver area is • Complete at least 61 credit hours of of application or certificate in the following a hotbed for many large firms including business courses; 30 hours, including the 18 areas: Business of Sports, Entrepreneurial IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Century Link. in the area of emphasis, must be completed Studies, International Business, Operations Most internships are paid and all provide after admission to Leeds. and Information Management, Quantitative challenging and educationally meaningful • Complete at least 59 credit hours of non- Finance, Real Estate, or Socially Responsible experiences. Internships often evolve into a business courses, which includes content area Enterprise. career position with the company. courses taken from the Arts and Sciences Global Initiatives The school maintains ongoing Core Curriculum. relationships with the business community A global mindset allows business graduates • Maintain an overall, business, and area-of- through a variety of special programs, to recognize good ideas from wherever emphasis GPA of at least 2.0. which brings business leaders to campus for they might come and new market/product • Earn a minimum of C- in each Area of classes, workshops, and seminars. The school opportunities wherever they might exist. Emphasis Course. also hosts networking events to encourage Globally-aware graduates have more choices students to meet business leaders in a General Curriculum Policies for employment and are immediately ready business setting. 1. In addition to the 44 hours of arts and to contribute in global environments. The sciences content area courses, you must Facilities Leeds School of Business seeks to prepare complete at least 15 credit hours of non- students to perform at a high level within Technology encompasses the business world business electives. global businesses and diverse cultures. Our and affects all aspects of the marketplace. 2. The school will not accept workshops, goal is that every Leeds student graduates The Leeds School of Business emphasizes orientations, most internships, independent with a global experience by participating in technology in its educational environment, studies, or certain classes offered by the one or more of our programs, such as, the from electronic classrooms to high-tech team College of Arts and Sciences. If you are first-year global experience, global seminars, study rooms. uncertain, please check with your advisor. and global internships. Look for the “Leeds The Leeds School of Business’ William 3. You may use courses taken pass/fail to 100% Global” stamp that identifies all M. White Business Library and Information satisfy non-business electives only. The pass/ participating programs. Visit leeds.colorado. Commons, contains a wide variety of fail determination must be made before the edu/global for more information. business resources including over fifty university deadline and is irreversible. A Career Development online databases. They include Business maximum of 6 hours of pass/fail is allowed. & Company Resource Center, Factiva, The Leeds School of Business Career 4. Business courses and Arts and Sciences LexisNexis, Mergent Online, Proquest Connections Office is a resource for Core classes may not be taken pass/fail. Historical Annual Reports (back to the comprehensive career planning and 5. You must complete 30 hours of business 1880s), Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage, courses in residence on the Boulder campus 2 Visit http://leeds.colorado.edu/ Undergraduate Academic Degree Requirements LEEDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS after admission to the program, including requirements please see the Arts and Sciences IV. Human Diversity (3 semester hours) all 18 hours in the area of emphasis and webpage at: Courses fulfilling this requirement increase any hours toward an area of application or http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/students/ the student’s understanding of diversity certificate. undergraduates/core_curriculum.html and pluralism through the study of two 6. You must be in residence at the campus interrelated areas: (1) the nature and meaning awarding the degree and must be registered I. Mathematical Skills (6 semester hours) of the categories of women, race, ethnicity, as a business degree student during the term Students are required to demonstrate and gender; and (2) cultures other than those of graduation. competence in mathematical skills by of Europe and the United States. Minimum Academic completing one course from each of the V. Ideals and Values (3 semester hours) Preparation Standards following categories: (MAPS) • Finite Math (3 semester hours) The courses that meet the ideals and values Students who graduated from high school in MATH 1071-3: Finite Math/Social Science requirement inquire into a specific sphere 1988 or thereafter are required to meet the and Business or ECON 1078-3: Math Tools of human value (e.g., moral, religious, minimum academic preparation standards for ECON 1. Students who pass the ALEKS intellectual, environmental). Such inquiry (MAPS). Students admitted to CU-Boulder Math Assessment with a score of 60 or higher demands the development of critical with MAPS deficiencies must complete their will be exempt from this requirement and thinking skills, which helps students identify MAPS courses before graduation. three hours will be added to non-business the assumptions and ramifications of value The following is a list of MAPS electives. structures. It also requires consideration requirements for the Leeds School of • Calculus (3 semester hours) of approaches by which value systems are Business. One unit equals one year of high MATH 1081-3: Calculus/Social Science and constructed, justified, and applied, especially school study or one semester of college Business or ECON 1088-3: Math Tools for in regard to personal, societal, and cross- course work. ECON 2 or equivalent calculus course. cultural contexts. NOTE: One 5-credit calculus class or two • English: 4 units, including two VI. Literature and the Arts (6 semester consecutive semesters of calculus will fulfill both in composition hours, 3 of which must be upper division) • Mathematics: 4 units math requirements These courses promote a better understanding II. Contemporary Societies • Natural science: 3 units, including two of fundamental aesthetic and cultural issues. (6 semester hours) in laboratory science, one of which must They sharpen critical and analytical abilities be in chemistry or physics These courses acquaint students with so that students may develop a deeper • Social science: 3 units, including one descriptive statistics commonly used by appreciation for works of art. The goal of this unit of U.S. or world history & one economists. It will familiarize the student requirement is to enhance the student’s ability unit of geography with characteristics of the U.S. economy, and to read critically, understand the elements of Students who have taken U.S. history may differentiate characteristics from those in other art, and grasp the complex relations between use a half year of world history and half economies. This six-hour requirement must be artist