Major Requirements
I. The Business Curriculum
This component is normally completed at Wofford.
Prerequisites (9 hours):
- Mathematics 140 - Statistics
- Economics 201 - Principles of Microeconomics
- Economics 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics
Requirements (18 hours):
- Accounting 211 - Accounting Principles
- Accounting 345 - Accounting Information Systems
- Finance 321 - Business Finance
- Economics 372 - Business Law
- Two of the following: Business 331 - Management; Business 338 - Marketing; and Finance 376 - Collaborative Problem Solving.
II. The ISB Language Curriculum for Chinese, French, German, or Spanish
This component is normally undertaken on campus before fulfillment of the required study abroad component.
Prerequisites (6 hours):
- Chinese, French, German, or Spanish 201 and 202.
Requirements (12 hours):
- Chinese 301 and 302 or
- French 303 and either 304 or 306, or
- German 303 and either 306 or 403, or
- Spanish 303 and either 305 or 307
- Two 400-level courses taken at Wofford
- Two additional courses at the 300 or 400 level in the language taught at Wofford, or, in consultation with the advisors, in an approved study abroad program
- An official, certified ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview
OR
The ISB Culture Curriculum for languages other than Chinese, French, German, or Spanish
This component is to be undertaken on campus and overseas. It is open only to students who are not completing requirements in the Language Curriculum. It is available only through an approved Wofford-affiliated foreign study progam in a country where the business language is NOT Chinese, French, German, or Spanish.
Requirements (eighteen hours):
- 3-6 hours of a (business) internship or field placement abroad
- 2-9 hours approved by the major advisors in a language other than English
- 3-9 hours selected from
- culture and civilization (or politics and society) of the studied country and/or
- a course about the studied country in the context of its broader regional context
- 3-6 hours selected in consultation with major advisors from the disciplines of
- Anthropology
- Communications
- International Relations
III. Study Abroad
After consultation with a supervising committee and the Director of Programs Abroad, the student will select and complete an appropriate program of at least one semester. A substantial foreign study experience that requires full immersion in the language and culture of a chosen country is indispensable to the ISB major.
IV. Senior Capstone Seminar (one three-hour course)
ISB 400 - Senior Capstone: Intercultural Studies for Business
Senior students from all three language areas in the ISB major meet together in weekly seminars. Content of the seminars is divided between reading and discussing materials pertaining to business topics in an international-intercultural context and presentations by speakers from the international community. Laboratory sessions are devoted to field trips to local international businesses and to research and preparation of case students centered on the problems and successes of business ventures in intercultural settings. The case studies are prepared and submitted using multimedia computer software. Completed projects serve as resources for future seminars. Conducted in English by faculty from the Departments of Accounting and Finance and Foreign Languages. Offered only in spring semesters.