2009-2010 - Bowie State University

DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
MAJOR CONCENTRATION DEGREE
OFFERED
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Accounting
Banking and Finance
Economics
BS
Chair:
Professor:
Samuel Duah
Granville Sawyer
Associate Professors: William Davidson,
Assistant Professors:
Lecturers:
LaTanya Brown, Samuel Duah, Fiseha Eshete, Joseph Lanciano, Sunando
Sengupta, Regina Tawah
Symon Manyara, Bernard McNeal
MISSION
This Department provides students with competence in the key areas of accounting, banking and
finance and economics. The students will gain the theoretical, analytical, organizational and technical
skills needed to be successful in the domestic and international business environment.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics offers a Bachelor of Science degree in business
administration with three concentrations: Accounting, Banking and Finance, and Economics.
Entering students are expected to successfully satisfy the requirements for the business mathematics
proficiency course by taking BUAD 100 (Business Mathematics). All majors are required to earn at least a
“C” grade in all courses in their major program. Graduating seniors are encouraged to take the national
standardized Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) during the fall semester of their senior
year. After completing Expository Writing (ENGL 101) and Argument and Research (ENGL 102), students
must take and successfully pass the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination. Transfer
students who completed their English composition requirements at another institution must also take
the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination during their first semester of enrollment at
the University.
Students are expected to familiarize themselves and comply with the School of Business and their
respective department’s standards for graduation. Each student’s program is individually reviewed and
may be adjusted to reflect student’s academic background and career goals.
ECONOMICS MINOR PROGRAM
Students majoring in areas other than business may pursue a minor in economics by taking 18 semester
hours of 300‐400 level economics courses. The eighteen semester hour do not include Principles of
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