Penn & Wharton Curriculum

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Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:09:45 +0000

The Huntsman curriculum involves both the Wharton core requirements and the CAS sector and foundational requirements. The Wharton part of the requirements consists of the following courses: 2 management courses (100 & 101), 2 finance courses (100 & 101), 2 stat courses (101-102 or 430-431), 2 accounting courses (101 &102), marketing 101, OPIM 101, math 104, econ 010 and BPUB 250. In addition, you’ll have to take 4 courses in whatever business field you like to obtain a Wharton concentration. On the college side, you need to fulfill the 7 sector requirements and 5 foundational approaches. All the foundational requirements (except writing) are easily fulfilled while taking other requirements, so you don’t have to take any extra courses. Of the sector requirements, you can fulfill 2 of the requirements without taking any extra courses (depends on whether you take econ 010 or waive it). Finally, there are the international studies requirements: 4 advanced language courses, 3 area studies (taken when you study abroad), 3 international studies courses (one of them is history 107, which fulfills 3 requirements at once), 3 international business courses (can double count with the Wharton concentration) and a senior thesis.

To summarize the preceding paragraph, you need to take about 35 courses to fulfill all requirements. If you plan to take an average of 5.5 courses a semester, you can take 9 courses of whatever you want (enough to get an additional Wharton concentration with a college minor, if you can get stuff to double count). In my opinion, that’s very flexible for a dual-degree program.

To show you the power of double counting, I present to you the following case. Assume a math nerd starts the calculus curriculum at math 240 (he has Calc bc credit and decided to skip math 114). If he passes math 240, he’ll have credit for math 104, math 114 and math 240. Then, while fulfilling the Wharton requirements, he decides to take stat 430 and 431, which count as math courses as far as the math minor is concerned. Finally, he uses some econ course he took to count as his math cognate. To obtain a minor in math, he has to take only one additional math course!