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Calcruzer
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:45:45 +0000

Let me summarize the Business School requirements:

Here is the weblink that gives you the Business Undergraduate Bulletin that lists all the requirements:
[Kelley School of Business Undergraduate 2006-2008 Online Bulletin: Undergraduate Program](http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/business/2006-2008/program.shtml)

To get into the I-Core program, you’ll need to take the “Foundation” courses.
They can be found here: [Foundation Courses: Curriculum: Academics: Undergraduate Program: Kelley School of Business: Indiana University Bloomington](Undergraduate | Bachelor's Degree in Business | Indiana Kelley)

They are:


ENG-W 131 Elementary Composition (3 units)
BUS-X 104 Business Presentations or CMCL-C 121 Public Speaking (3 units)
BUS-X 204 Business Communications (3 units) (Prerequisite: ENG-W 131)
MATH-M 118 Finite Mathematics (3 units)
MATH-M 119 Brief Survey of Calculus (3 units)
BUS-K 201 The Computer in Business (3 units)
BUS-X 201 Technology (Prerequisite: BUS-K 201) (3 units)
BUS-X 220 Career Perspectives (2 units)
BUS-A 100 Basic Accounting Skills (1 unit)
BUS-A 201 Intro to Financial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)
BUS-A 202 Intro to Managerial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)
BUS-L 201 Legal Environment of Business (3 units) (Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing)
ECON-E 201 Intro to Microeconomics (3 units)
ECON-E 370 Statistical Analysis (3 units) (P: BUS-E 201 and MATH-M 118) or MATH-K 310
BUS-G 202 Corporate Social Strategy (formerly called Business and Economic Strategy in Public Arena) (2 units)


ECON-E 202 Intro to Macroeconomics (3 units) is highly recommended (but not required)

Also notice that BUS-X 100 Intro to Management (3 units) is not listed above, but is a required course also (or BUS-G 100) and your son is required to take BUS-X 230 Career Perspectives Lab (a zero unit course) at the same time as BUS-X 220. Since I’ve listed 15 courses here, plus ECON-E 202, plus BUS-X 100, that means there are17 courses total to be taken before I-Core can be taken (not counting BUS-X230—which I won’t count since it is just a one hour lab worth zero units)—Is this confusing?—yes, I know it is.

As you already know, courses #1, #2, #4, and #5 above plus the Intro to Management course need to be taken first, since those are the ones you have to take to get into the Kelley Business School.

Also notice which courses are the prerequisites for which other courses, since you son will need to take those first.

By the end of the summer, your son will hopefully have the following courses completed:

1. BUS-X 100 Intro to Management (3 units)

2. ENG-W 131 Elementary Composition (3 units)

3. BUS-X 104 Business Presentations (3 units)

4. MATH-M 118 Finite Mathematics (3 units)

5. MATH-M 119 Brief Survey of Calculus (3 units)

6. BUS-K 201 The Computer in Business (3 units)

7. BUS-A 100 Basic Accounting Skills (1 unit)

This will leave ten courses to be taken:


BUS-X 204 Business Communications (3 units) (Prerequisite: ENG-W 131)
BUS-X 201 Technology (Prerequisite: BUS-K 201) (3 units)
BUS-X 220 Career Perspectives (2 units)
BUS-A 201 Intro to Financial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)
BUS-A 202 Intro to Managerial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)
BUS-L 201 Legal Environment of Business (3 units) (Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing)
ECON-E 201 Intro to Microeconomics (3 units)
ECON-E 370 Statistical Analysis (3 units) (P: BUS-E 201 and MATH-M 118) or MATH-K 310
BUS-G 202 Corporate Social Strategy (formerly called Business and Economic Strategy in Public Arena) (2 units)
ECON-E 202 Intro to Macroeconomics (3 units) (recommended but not required)


Plus the zero unit BUS X-230 course

I suggest these courses be taken in the following order:

Fall 2008

1. BUS-X 201 Technology (Prerequisite: BUS-K 201) (3 units)

2. BUS-X 220 Career Perspectives (2 units) plus BUS-X230 (0 units)

3. BUS-A 201 Intro to Financial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)

4. ECON-E 201 Intro to Microeconomics (3 units)

5. BUS-G 202 Corporate Social Strategy (formerly called Business and Economic Strategy in Public Arena) (2 units)

Spring 2009 (or split between Spring 2009 and Fall 2009)

1. BUS-X 204 Business Communications (3 units) (Prerequisite: ENG-W 131)

2. BUS-A 202 Intro to Managerial Accounting (3 units) (Prerequisite: BUS-A 100)

3. BUS-L 201 Legal Environment of Business (3 units) (Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing)

4. ECON-E 370 Statistical Analysis (3 units) (P: BUS-E 201 and MATH-M 118) or MATH-K 310

5. ECON-E 202 Intro to Macroeconomics (3 units) (recommended but not required)

As you can see this leaves no time for any general education courses (except maybe one course in Fall 2008 if your son doesn’t mind taking 16 units).

Also, if your son finishes with at least a 3.7 GPA (overall) at the end of this semester, he can apply for the Hutton Honors college. This allows him to take certain of these courses as “honors” courses (and which are normally closed to others). If he takes 5 of these as honors courses prior to going into I-Core (and then takes one other course his senior year), he will get “college honors” noted on his diploma at graduation. However, that means half of the courses he takes during his sophomore year would be “honors” courses–so you and he will have to decide if this works for him.
Also, these honors courses have different numbers–so BUS-L 201, for example–would be replaced by BUS-L 293, which is the honors version of the same course. Look at the “Schedule of Classes” to see which courses are honors replacement for which other courses.

I’ll discuss transferring courses in my next post.