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Global Business

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Succeed in the global marketplace

The global business major prepares you for an international career by exploring topics like emerging markets, global finance and international marketing. With a flexible curriculum, you can focus on language and culture or dive into a business specialty, like marketing, finance or analytics. You’ll also have the chance to study abroad for credit, gaining firsthand experience with how business works around the world. This major positions you to lead with a global perspective across industries, cultures and borders.

AREAS OF STUDY

  • Business analytics
  • Foreign languages
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Marketing
  • Operations management

CAREER OPTIONS

  • Analyst
  • Account executive
  • Sales representative
  • International customer relations
  • Global business services consultant
  • Language and culture assistant

 

What’s special about this program?

You’ll start with international business foundations, then choose one of two tracks to shape your path. The global enterprise management track helps you build focused business expertise through a required concentration like finance, marketing or analytics. The international business studies track pairs business with a language and culture concentration, giving you deeper cross-cultural fluency.

Both tracks offer hands-on learning, career-focused coursework and the opportunity to study abroad for credit in countries around the world. Whether you're drawn to global strategy or international collaboration, this major helps you prepare for a career that crosses borders.

Students can also pursue an honors degree option for an additional academic challenge.

Get Involved

Blue Hen Investment Club

Geltzeiler Trading Center

Women in Business

Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity

Lerner Student Advisory Board

Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity

Sample curriculum

BUAD110

 

Basics of Business
ECON101

Microeconomics

 

ECON103

Macroeconomics

 

ENGL110

 

First-Year Writing

MATH115/MATH221  

 

Pre-Calculus or Calculus I

 

STAT200

 

Basic Statistical Practice

 

Creative Arts & Humanities Breadth Course
 

History & Cultural Change Breadth Course

 

 

Natural Sciences & Technology Breadth Course

 

 

Social & Behavioral Sciences Breadth Course

 

ACCT207

Accounting I

 

ACCT208

Accounting II

 

BUAD301

Introduction to Marketing

 

BUAD309

Organizational Behavior

 

COMM212/HOSP230

Public Speaking & Professional Presentation or
Executive Presentations & Professional Development

 

MISY160

Business Computing Fundamentals

 

MIST225/MISY261

Intro to Programming or Intro to Management Information Systems

 

MISY262

Fundamentals of Business Analytics

 

 

Cultural Competence Elective

 

 

Social & Behavioral Sciences Breadth Course

 

ACCT352

Law & Social Issues in Business

 

BUAD306

Introduction to Operations Management

 

BUAD384

Globalization and Business

 

BUAD386

Managing the Global Enterprise

 

FINC311

 

Principles of Finance
 

Concentration Courses

 

 

Free Electives

 

 

Global Business Elective

 

BUAD414

Navigating Global Dynamics: Perspectives and Principles

 

BUAD415

Navigating Global Dynamics: Practices and Processes

 

BUAD441

Strategic Management

 

 

Concentration Courses

 

 

Discovery Learning Experience Course

 

 

Free Electives

 

 

Global Perspectives Course

 

Go Global at UD

This major is eligible for the following programs:

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