Undergraduate Guide to
Upper-Division General Education

All students are required to take one of the options listed below to complete their Upper Division General Education Requirements.

Option A: Any University-approved minor outside the College of Business, a second degree, or a second major outside the College of Business (students double majoring or minoring in Economics can also use this to satisfy the requirement).

Option B: Complete a cluster listed below.

Administrative Leadership,   Impacts of Technology, or  World Cultures: Values and Visions

Option C: BSBA majors adding a minor or second major in the College of Business: You must also take 6 hours of  200-400 level courses outside the Collge of Business.

What are clusters?  Three courses in a focus area at the upper-level (300+).  There are eleven "clusters" or focus areas available.  Normally, the cluster requires two courses outside of your normal business curriculum.  The check-off spaces for these two courses are listed under "Upper-level General Education-Clusters" in your major curriculum sheet.

What are the main rules for completing a cluster?  You choose three(3) courses from the list of the particular cluster you have selected. Here are the rules for choosing courses:

1. You may not mix and match courses from different clusters. Choose one cluster and select from courses in that cluster only.
2. One of the three courses can used to fulfill your business major.  There are only three clusters that give you that opportunity.  These threee clusters (Administrative Leadership, Impacts of Technology, and World Cultures: Values and Visions) allow you to take only two additional courses. These courses are described in more detail below.
3. A limited amount of substitution can be done with prior approval on an emergency basis.
4. Conisder scheduling and availability of classes closely.

Administrative Leadership Cluster

Option	Course	Comments
Required Busines Cousrse	MGMT 325 Principle of Management	All Business majors take this course
Choose Two courses from the following list	PHIL 303 Business Ethics
cannot take MKTG 414 if you take MGMT 350	MGMT 350 Employee Relations	You cannot use this for both the cluster as well as for a business elective
cannot take MGMT 350 if you take MKTG 414	MKTG 414 Business Ethics and Admin.	You cannot use this for both the cluster as well as for a business elective
	COMM 351 Interpersonal Communications in Organizations
	PSYC 303 Industrial/ Organizational Psychology	Requires a prerequiste of PYSC 201

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Impacts of Technology Cluster

Option	Course	Comments
Required Busines Cousrse	OPMT 303T Operations Management and Technology	All Business majors take this course
Choose Two courses from the following list	OTS 370T Technology and Society
	GEOG 306T Hazards: Natural and Technological
	OTS 382 Industrial Design
	HIST 389T Technology and Civilization
	GEOG 305 World Resourses
	PHIL 383T Technology: Nature and Significane
	CS 300 Computers and Society
	POLS 350T War and Technology

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World Cultures: Value and Visions Cluster

Note: Unlike the previous two clusters, this cluster does not have an "automatic" required major course. You still are allowed to use only one of these courses for a business or major elective as well as for the cluster.

Option	Course	Comments
Choose Three courses from the following list	IT 425 Info. Systems for International Business
cannot take COMM 400 if you take ENGL 371	ENGL 371 Communication Across Cultures
cannot take ENGL 371 if you take COMM 400	COMM 400 Intercultural Communications
	WMST 401 Women: Global Perspective
	MGMT 361 International Business	Can be used as the International Business Requirement
	MKTG 411 Multi-National Marketing	Can be used as the International Business Requirement
	3 hour Study Abroad Course Various locations and courses	Normally given in the summer
	PHIL 354 East and West Philosophy
cannot take PYSC 420 if you take ANTR 320	ANTR 320 Gender in Cross Cultural Perpective
cannot take ANTR 320 if you take PSYC 420	PSYC 420 Cross Culutural Psychology
	FR 320                        Various titles GER 355 GER/FLET/COMM 445 JAPN/FLET 310 SPAN 320 SPAN 321	Some of these courses may have W suffixes. Some are taught in the language, others involve the literature of that country.

Business majors with questions regarding their upper general education requirement should meet with their assigned academic advisor ( http://bpa.odu.edu/bpa/academics/advising/adv-facinfo2.shtml )

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