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Business Administration

Catalog pages 140-147

Subject abbreviation: BUS The School of Business Administration

Yunzeng Wang, Ph.D., Dean Office, 142 Anderson Hall

  • (951) 827-2932

Undergraduate Business Programs Office 2340 Olmsted Hall

  • (951) 827-4551; fax: (951) 827-5061

soba.ucr.edu

Professors

Y. Peter Chung, Ph.D. (Finance) Mohsen El-Hafsi, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply

Chain Management) Jean Helwege, Ph.D. (Finance) Woody M. Liao, Ph.D. (Accounting) Birendra Mishra, Ph.D. (Accounting) Theodore Mock, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor

(Accounting) Amnon Rapoport, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor

(Management) Jorge Silva-Risso, Ph.D. (Marketing) Richard Smith, Ph.D. Philip L. Boyd Chair

(Finance) Yunzeng Wang, Ph.D. Dean’s Distinguished

Scholar (Operations and Supply Chain Management) Rami Zwick, Ph.D. Associate Dean (Marketing) Professors Emeriti

Bajis M. Dodin, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply

Chain Management) David Mayers, Ph.D. (Finance) Kathleen Montgomery, Ph.D. Distinguished

Professor (Management) Michael Moore, Ph.D. (Accounting) Waymond Rodgers, Ph.D. (Accounting and

Information Systems) David Stewart, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor

(Marketing) Associate Professors

Amitav Chakravarti, Ph.D. (Marketing) Long Gao, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply Chain

Management) Jerayr ‘John’ Haleblian, Ph.D. (Management) Thomas Kramer, Ph.D. (Marketing) Elaine Wong, Ph.D. (Management) Associate Professor Emeritus

Lawrence Zahn, Ph.D. (Management and

Marketing) Assistant Professors

Alexander Barinov, Ph.D. (Finance) Elodie Goodman, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply

Chain Management) Timothy Gubler, Ph.D. (Management) Michael Haselhuhn, Ph.D. (Management) Hyun ‘Shana’ Hong, Ph.D. (Accounting) Yawen Jiao, Ph.D. (Finance) Ivalina Kalcheva, Ph.D. (Finance) Sukwon (Thomas) Kim, Ph.D. (Finance) Kevin Li, Ph.D. (Accounting and Information

Systems) Ye Li, Ph.D. (Management) Haibo Liu, Ph.D. (Management) Yun Liu, Ph.D. (Finance) Boris Maciejovsky, Ph.D. (Management) Adem Orsdemir, Ph.D. (Operations and Supply

Chain Management) Marlo Raveendran, Ph.D. (Management) Ashish Sood, Ph.D. (Marketing) Y. Charles Zhang, Ph.D. (Marketing)

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Adjunct Professor

Richard Savich, Ph.D. (Accounting and

Information Systems) Lecturers

Paul Beehler (Management) Sean Jasso (Management and Marketing) Gary Patterson (Accounting and Information

Systems) Bruce Samuelson (Accounting and Information

Systems) Asish Satpathy (Information Systems and Finance) Raj Singh (Management and Marketing) Craig Weaver (Accounting and Information

Systems) Sari Silvanto-Ryan (Management and Marketing)

Majors

The B.S. in Business Administration is a two- year upper-division major offered by the School of Business Administration (SoBA). Students can enroll in a Pre-Business status and are advised in CHASS during their freshman and sophomore years. The Pre-Business curriculum includes the prerequisites to the major and the college breadth requirements. After admission to the major, students are advised by the SoBA through its Undergraduate Business Programs Office located at 2340 Olmsted Hall. The B.S. degree in Business Administration is conferred by the SoBA.

The program is accredited by the AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Admission A limited number of students are accepted into the Business Administration 141 / Programs and Courses 141 / Programs and Courses

major, chosen according to overall GPA. Students must apply for the major when they have completed not fewer than 75 and not more than 100 quarter units of college work. Final acceptance into the major is based on completion of all prerequisites and breadth requirements within a 100-quarter-unit limit, a GPA above 2.50 in major prerequisites, and cumulative GPA of at least 2.70. (Students who have not completed the foreign language breadth requirement may be accepted into the program, but they must complete the requirement before graduation.) Exceptions to the 100-quarter-unit maximum must be requested by petition.

UCR Students (excluding Pre-Business students) interested in changing major to Business Administration will be admissible to the Business Preparatory (BSPR), (which is not a major in UCR, but a holding group of transfer students who appear to be qualified for admission into business administration, but have some deficiencies which need to be completed before admission into business administration) status only if they can complete their deficiencies in breadth and/or major prerequisites within one quarter (the first quarter after admission into Bus-Preparatory).

The same rule will apply to students transferring in from a community college or a four-year school. In the event these students fail to meet this one quarter requirement, they will not be admitted into the BSPR category, and will be advised to find another major at UCR.

Students are encouraged to participate in at least one internship during their junior or senior year. Students interested in international business are encouraged to consider opportunities for study through the Education Abroad Program, which has centers affiliated with more than 150 institutions in 35 countries worldwide. For further details, visit Study Abroad Programs at studyabroad.ucr.edu or call

  • (951) 827-2508.

Outstanding academic achievement is recognized by the awarding of the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key to a graduating senior. Other awards, presented on an annual basis, include the Bank of America Business Leaders Scholarship, Deloitte and Touche Scholarship, Gordon Blunden/Provident Savings Bank Business Scholarship, and the Ernst & Young Scholarship.

Graduating seniors are also eligible for the School of Business Administration Award for Academic and Service Excellence, and also the SoBA Concentration Area Awards, which recognizes the student with the best overall performance in each concentration area.

Each Spring, the top 10% of juniors and seniors in the Business Administration program are invited to join Beta Gamma Sigma, the only international honors society recognized by AACSB International. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB Inernational. New Members are recognized by an official induction ceremony led by the Dean of the School of Business Administration in the Spring quarter.

University Requirements

See Undergraduate Studies section.

College Requirements

Students must fulfill all breadth requirements of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences or the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum prior to transferring to the UC.

Major Requirements

The following are requirements leading to the B.S. degree in Business Administration. At least 50 percent of business course requirements must be completed at UCR.

Business Administration Major

  • 1. Preparation for Business Administration

major (8 courses [at least 32 units])

Major prerequisites (non-BUS courses may be used to satisfy breadth requirements for the School of Business Administration):

The major requirements for the B.S. in Business Administration are as follows:

  • 2. Upper-division major requirements (18

courses [at least 72 units])

Core courses (at least 10 courses [at least 40 units]):

BUS 100W, BUS 101, BUS 102, BUS 103, BUS 104/STAT 104, BUS 105, BUS 106/ ECON 134, BUS 107, BUS 108, BUS 109

Concentration (At least 20 units): Students in the Business Administration major (BSAD) will be required to declare a concentration at least three quarters prior to graduation, provided they be allowed to change their concentration, if justified. The Office of Undergraduate Business Programs will manage the process. Students can declare one concentration.

Choose five courses from one of the concentrations listed below. Courses completed to meet upper division core requirements may not be used to meet concentration requirements.

Accounting and Auditing: BUS 154, BUS 160/ECON 160, BUS 161, BUS 162/ECON 162, BUS 165A, BUS 165B, BUS 165C, BUS 166, BUS 167, BUS 168A, BUS 168B, BUS 169A, BUS 169B

Finance: BUS 132 and at least four of the following: BUS 131, BUS 134, BUS 135, BUS 136, BUS 137, BUS 138, BUS 139, BUS 140E, BUS 146, BUS 147, BUS 148, BUS 153/ECON 153 Information Systems: BUS 125, BUS 128, BUS 171, BUS 172, BUS 173, BUS 174, BUS 175

Management: BUS 143, BUS 144, BUS 145, BUS 146, BUS 147, BUS 148, BUS 149, BUS 154, BUS 155, BUS 156, BUS 157, ANTH 105/BUS 158, BUS 173

Marketing: BUS 111, BUS 112, BUS 113, BUS 114, BUS 115, BUS 116, BUS 117, BUS 118, BUS 119, BUS 126

Operations and Supply Chain Management: BUS 122, BUS 124, BUS 125, BUS 126, BUS 127/STAT 127, BUS 128, BUS 129, BUS 130, BUS 173

An additional 3 courses (at least 12 units) of Business Administration elective courses from BUS 111-BUS 199H, excluding BUS 190. Courses completed to satisfy the five- course concentration requirement may not be used to meet this requirement. Related courses outside of Business Administration may be approved to satisfy theis requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean or Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Student Affairs of SoBA.

Majors with Administrative Studies Components

B.A. degrees are offered in Art History, Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology with Administrative Studies. A B.S. degree is offered in Sociology with Administrative Studies. Specified departmental requirements are listed under respective departmental listings.

  • 1. All requirements of the College of

Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • 2. Specified requirements of the relevant

department, to include at least 36 upper- division units in that discipline

  • 3. Administrative Studies requirements (37

units)

  • a) Four lower-division courses (17 units)

to satisfy breadth requirements)

  • (3) CS 008 (may be used to satisfy

breadth requirements)

  • b) Two upper-division courses (8 units) from

the list below:

These two courses must be outside the discipline of the relevant major and cannot be courses included as part of the three-course Business Administration track or their cross-listed equivalents.

  • c) A three-course track (12 units) in

Business Administration courses, from one of the following: Business Administration / 142

  • (1) Organizations (General): BUS 100,

BUS 107, BUS 176/SOC 176, BUS 158/ANTH 105, SOC 150, SOC 151

  • (2) Human Resources Management/Labor

Relations: BUS 100, BUS 107, BUS 152/ECON 152, BUS 153/ECON 153, BUS 155, BUS 157, PSYC 142

POSC 186

  • (4) Marketing: BUS 103, and two from

BUS 112, BUS 113, BUS 114 or BUS 117

from BUS 134, BUS 136, BUS 137, BUS 138, BUS 139

  • (8) Management Information Systems:

BUS 101, BUS 171, BUS 173

  • (9) Production Management: BUS 104/

STAT 104, and two from BUS 105, BUS 122, BUS 127/STAT 127

Minor

Students declaring a minor in Business Administration will petition the Undergraduate Business Programs Office at least three quarters prior to graduation. That office will publicize the deadlines each quarter to all colleges and major departments.

Prerequisites for the minor in Business Administration are as follows:

  • 1. Three lower-division courses (14 units) (must

be completed with no grade lower than “C”): BUS 020, ECON 003, STAT 048

Requirements for the minor in Business Administration are as follows:

  • 2. Six upper-division courses (24 units):
  • b) Two additional upper-division Business

Administration courses from BUS 100W-BUS 199H, exluding BUS 190. Courses completed to satisfy the four course requirement in section “a)” above may not be used to meet this requirement.

Courses