UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC DEGREE PROGRAM DEPARTMENT: Marketing, Economics and Sports Business COMPLETED BY: Linda Dynan EMAIL ADDRESS: dynanl@nku.edu SECTION 1: Undergraduate Degree Program Core Curriculum Academic Degree Program - Associate: Baccalaureate: X of Required for Major (include all semester hours required to complete the major, i.e. history 42 semester hours): 36 Is the Program an Interdisciplinary Program? If yes, click in the following box Step 1 - List Program s Core Courses in Table 1. Core is defined as a set of discipline-specific courses required for all students in the degree program. The core must constitute at least 50% of all coursework in the program. For example, if the program requires 30 total hours, then at least 15 hours must be discipline-specific courses in the core. Core courses must be individual courses, or grouped into select one of these two courses or select two of these three courses, but no other options. If program requires a track, core courses (discipline-specific) can be added to program core to calculate the 50% core program requirement. Courses required to complete a track should be listed in the Section 2 tables. In this section do not include any general education courses (even if in the same discipline) or required courses outside the discipline. All general education and other required courses should be entered in Section 3. If an interdisciplinary Program, list all courses required to complete the major. Table 1: Program Core Curriculum ECO 200 Principles of Macroeconomics 3 ECO 201 Principles of Microeconomics 3 ECO 300 Intermediate Macroeconomics 3 ECO 301 Intermediate Microeconomics 3
ECO 310 Introduction to Econometrics 3 ECO 494 Seminar in Economics 3 TOTAL HOURS IN PROGRAM CORE CURRICULUM = 18 Next Step: If program requires a student to complete a track, complete Section 2. If not, proceed to Section 3.
SECTION 2: TRACKS FOR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS Does the major require students to select a track to complete requirements for the program? If so, please complete one table for each option. If the track requires discipline-specific courses, the total hours will be included in the count for core percentage and should be grouped and listed first. If not, ignore this section go to Section 3. Step 2 (if applicable): Complete Table 2 listing courses required for a track (all students must take) in Part 1 and list other courses in Part 2 (would include courses where student can select number of hours from a list of courses or nondiscipline courses. Table 2 - Track 1 Name: Click here to enter text. Table 2 - Track 2: Name: Click here to enter text. Part 1:Core Discipline Specific Courses for Track
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SECTION 3: Required Courses for the Academic Program not included in Core or Track Section 3 is broken down into two tables. Table 3 List all courses that serve as prerequisites to degree requirements, courses required for the major that are from other disciplines, and all electives (selection of one or more courses from list, i.e. choose 9 hours at 300 or above level) that are not in included in the discipline core (excluding general education courses). Table 4 List all general education courses required for the major. Include any general education course that is part of the major. For example, if the major is mathematics and the major requires MAT 128, then MAT 128 must be listed in Table 4, not Table 1. Table 3: Other Required Non Discipline-Specific Courses and all Electives (including discipline-specific courses where student can choose one or multiple courses from a long list of courses) STA 205 or Introduction to Statistical Methods 3 STA 212 Statistics for Business Application I 3 STA 314 Design and Analysis of Experiments 3 STA 316 Regression Analysis 3 ECO 302 Money and Banking 3 ECO 305 International Context for Business 3 ECO 330 Urban and Regional Economics 3 ECO 340 International Economics 3 ECO 342 Economic Development 3 ECO 350 Labor Economics 3 ECO 394 Topics in Economics 3 ECO 396 Internship 3 ECO 494 Independent Study
Table 4: General Education Courses Required for Major ECO 200 Principles of Macroeconomics 3 ECO 201 Principles of Microeconomics 3 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS IN CORE (Table 1): 18 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS REQUIRED FOR THE TRACK (choose one requiring least number of hours) (Table 2): TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS IN ELECTIVES (Table 3): 6 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS IN GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES: 6 TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS REQUIRED FOR PROGRAM (total of Table 1, 2 (if applicable), 3 and 4): 36 Thank you for completing template. Please completed template to Mary Lepper, FH 508 or lepperm@nku.edu.