St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Davenport Iowa 52803 admit

Undergraduate Programs
Requirements for Bachelor of Arts with a
Teaching Major in General Business Education:
ACCT 201, 202; BUS 205, 301, 302, 303, 309,
310, 350; ECON 201, 202; CSCI 305; EDUC
205, (B or better), 284, 301, 305, 308, 309, 336,
419; PSYC 310; SOC 300; U.S. history or government.
All grades must be C or better unless specified.
For entrance into the Practitioner Preparation
program, students need a 2.7 cumulative and
major grade-point average, a 3.0 GPA in education
course work and 70 hours of field work. See
Education Department section for teaching major
and student teaching requirements.
Requirements for Bachelor of Arts with a
Teaching Major in Economics (7-12): 30 semester
hours including ECON 201, 202, 205, 305,
312, 313, BUS 350, and nine semester credits in
economic electives. Education courses required
for a teaching are found in the Education
Department section.
+ = Applicable toward general education degree requirements
WI = Writing intensive course
Minors
Requirements for a Teaching Minor in General
Business (7-12): ACCT 201, 202; BUS 201, 205,
310; CSCI 305. Education courses required for
teaching are found in the Education Department
section.
Requirements for a Teaching Minor in Business
Marketing and Management (7-12): BUS 309,
310, 316, 348; 12 credits of economics electives
including ECON 202. Education courses required
for teaching are found in the Education
Department section.
Requirements for a Minor in General Business:
ACCT 201, 202; BUS 205, 303, 309, 310;
ECON 101; three credits in a 300-level business
or economics elective; MATH 151.
Requirements for a Minor in Economics: ACCT
201, 202; BUS 205; ECON 201, 202, 312, 313;
three credits in 300-level economics.
Requirements for a Minor in Marketing (nonbusiness
majors): BUS 309, 348; three of the following:
BUS 311, 328, 322, 330, 347; ECON 202.
Course Descriptions
BUS 050. Business Horizons
2 credits
Business Horizons is a special course available
only to those high school students who successfully
complete the Business Horizons program
and meet the requirements specified for
St. Ambrose credit. (Requirements include: registering
for credit and preparing a final paper to be
written and submitted within one week of completion
of the program.) Business Horizons is
sponsored by the Iowa Association of Business
and Industry Foundation, local chambers of commerce,
Junior Achievement and St. Ambrose.
BUS 101. Foundations of Business 3 credits
Survey of the primary topics of business, including
management, personnel, finances, marketing,
economics, business ownership and ethics.
BUS 201. Legal Environment of Business3 credits
A practical overview of the law in relation to the
transaction of business, with particular attention
given to the study of material on law and regulation
for managers. Prerequisite: Sophomore
standing or above.
BUS 205. Elementary Economic and
Business Statistics
3 credits
Principles and techniques of basic descriptive statistics
with their applications in social and business
fields; probability models, random variables,
probability distributions, expectations and estimations.
Prerequisites: MATH 151 or equivalent;
ECON 201 or 202.
BUS 301. Business Law I
3 credits
A fundamental examination of the business
aspects of law relating to the legal environment of
business, contracts, agency, sales and commercial
paper. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
BUS 302. Business Law II
3 credits
A continuation of BUS 301, dealing with the law
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