Business Foundations Program Courses

The Texas Business Foundations Program (Texas BFP) is a certificate program meant to give undergraduate students of any discipline a fundamental background in business. The program allows non-business students to supplement their current course of study and equip themselves with the business knowledge to turn passions into successful careers. 

These courses are taught by the same faculty who teach in the traditional BBA program but do not require the same prerequisites as the traditional BBA courses and may not be counted toward the Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Course Descriptions and Prerequisites

ACC 310F. Foundations of Accounting - An introduction to financial and managerial accounting, with emphasis on the content, interpretation, and uses of accounting reports. Discussion of the determination and reporting of net income and financial position, and the theories underlying business financial statements; consideration of managerial accounting topics designed to extend the student's knowledge to the planning and controlling of the operations of the firm.

BA 320F. Foundations of Entrepreneurship - Introduction to the mechanics and strategies for starting a business.  Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

FIN 320F. Foundations of Finance - Principles of effective financial management, including planning, organization, and control; financial intermediaries; securities markets; evaluating alternative assets, debt, and capital structures. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; Accounting 310F OR 311 and 312.

LEB 320F. Foundations of Legal Environment - Not open to law students. Introduction to the legal problems confronting businesses in the global environment. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

MAN 320F. Foundations of Organizational Behavior and Administration - An introduction to the management of organizations. Issues are addressed from the perspectives of strategy and planning, organizational behavior, and operations management.  Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

MIS 302F. Introduction to Information Technology Management - Explores how information technology helps to achieve competitive advantage and improve decision making, business processes, operations, and organizational design. Uses a cross-functional perspective to recognize the role of technology across business activities of management, finance, marketing, human resources, and operations.  Management Information Systems 302F and 311F may not both be counted.

MKT 320F. Foundations of Marketing - Introduction to basic concepts and terminology in marketing: the process of developing marketing strategy, the role of marketing activities within the firm, external influences that affect the development of marketing strategy, and basic analytical tools appropriate to marketing decision making. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Traditional BBA Summer Courses

Traditional BBA courses that are typically restricted to students admitted to McCombs School of Business are now available to all UT students and transient (students from other universities) during the summer.  Students are still required to meet the prerequisites for the courses listed below.  Transient students may establish their eligibility using a transcript from their home school.  Students may use the Automated Transfer Equivalency system (ATE) to search how courses at other Texas colleges and universities transfer over to The University of Texas at Austin.

Course Descriptions and Prerequisites

ACC 311. Fundamentals of Financial Accounting - Concepts and their application in transaction analysis and financial statement preparation; analysis of financial statements. Prerequisite: Twenty-four semester hours of college credit.

ACC 312. Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting - Introduction to cost behavior, budgeting, responsibility accounting, cost control, and product costing. Prerequisite : Accounting 311 or 311H.

BA 324. Business Communication: Oral and Written - Theory and practice of effective communication, using models from business situations. Students practice what they learn with a variety of in-class activities, written assignments, and oral presentations. Teamwork and use of interpersonal skills are included. Prerequisite: E 603A, RHE 306, 306Q, 309K, or Tutorial Course 603A.

FIN 357. Business Finance - Principles of finance, with application to all aspects of the business firm; particular attention to cost of capital, investment decisions, management of assets, and procurement of funds. Prerequisite: Accounting 311 or 311H, 312 or 312H, Economics 304K and 304L, and Statistics 309 or 309H. *

FIN 367. Investment Management - Investment theory, alternatives, and decision making under differing uncertainties and constraints; formulation of objectives and strategies; development of conceptual managerial perspectives and philosophies for investment environments. Prerequisite : Finance 357 or 357H.

FIN 376. International Finance - The international financial environment, with emphasis on the factors affecting exchange rates and how exchange rate changes affect the firm. Prerequisite: Finance 357 or 357H.

LEB 323. Business Law and Ethics - Role of law in society; introduction to legal reasoning, dispute resolution, judicial process, constitutional law, agency, torts, government regulations; business ethics; study of contracts. Prerequisite: None. * 

MAN 336. Organizational Behavior - The process of managing organizations and the behavior of individuals and groups within the organizational setting.  Prerequisite: credit or registration for three semester hours of coursework in anthropology, psychology, or sociology.*

MAN 337. Business Professional Communication - Provides students with a conceptual framework and the tools to develop communication and critical thinking abilities for the employment process and succeeding in the workplace. Restricted to non-business students.

MAN 337. Entrepreneurship - Introduction to the mechanics and strategies for starting a business.

MAN 374. General Management and Strategy - Designed to enable students to analyze business situations from the point of view of the practicing general manager. Addresses key tasks involved in general management including strategic decisions that insure the long-term health of the entire firm or a major division. Restricted to BBA students.  Prerequisites: MAN 336, 336H, OM 335, or 335H; credit or registration for Finance 357 or 357H, and Marketing 337 or 337H; and credit or registration for the internship course.

MIS 301. Introduction to Information Technology Management - Explores how information technology helps to achieve competitive advantage and improve decision making, business processes, operations, and organizational design. Uses a cross-functional perspective to recognize the role for technology across business activities of management, finance, marketing, human resources, and operations. Prerequisite: None.

MIS 325. Database Management - Beginning and intermediate topics in data modeling for relational database management systems. Prerequisite: None.

MKT 337. Principles of Marketing - Designed to expand the student's understanding of the marketing system and basic marketing activities and to provide a framework for marketing strategy development and implementation of marketing tools and tactics. Prerequisite: Credit or registration for Accounting 312 or 312H, and Statistics 309 or 309H. *

OM 335. Operations Management - The operations or production function and the skills required for analyzing and solving related problems. Prerequisite: Credit or registration for Statistics 309 or 309H. *

STA 309. Elementary Business Statistics - Training in the use of data to gain insight into business problems; describing distributions (center, spread, change, and relationships), producing data (experiments and sampling), probability and inference (means, proportions, differences, regression and correlation). Prerequisite: M 408C or 408K and M 408D or 408L.

STA 371G. Statistics and Modeling - Optimization techniques for deterministic models (linear and integer programming) and stochastic models (queueing, simulation, Markov chains).  Prerequisites: M 408D, 408L, or 408M; STA 309 or 309H.*

*NOTE: Credit or registration for Business Administration 324 or 324H has been waived for all students for summer 2012.

How to Register for Summer Courses?

The McCombs School of Business is looking forward to working with three different populations of students this summer; current BBA students, UT nonbusiness students, and transient students.  According to what type of student you are, please follow the procedures below to help guide you through the summer registration process.

Current BBA students 

• The registration process will remain the same.  Please  use the course schedule and starting April 18th you may use the online registration system to register for classes.

Other UT students

• For traditional BBA coursework, check the prerequisites.
• Graduate students need a letter from their graduate advisor requesting permission to enroll in a undergraduate business course.  Letter needs to be on UT letterhead with the graduate advisors' signature.  Please address attention Michael Schuetz and bring to the Undergraduate Program Office (CBA 2.400)
• All UT undergraduate students will have direct access to business courses during the summer.    

Transient (Visiting) students

• Apply for summer transient admission by May 1. 
• View the summer class offerings on the Business Foundations tab and/or the Traditional BBA tab. 
• Check the prerequisites for each course to gauge your eligibility. Transient students may establish their eligibility using a transcript from their home school. The Automated Transfer Equivalency system (ATE) shows how courses at other Texas colleges and universities transfer to The University of Texas at Austin.
• Once admitted, you may register online, your first opportunity to register will be May 29 - 30.

Questions?

• About admissions, contact the Office of Admissions, (512) 475-7387.
• About registration (times, access, etc.), contact the Office of the Registrar, (512) 475-7575.
• About the BBA summer enhancement program (pre-req eligibility, course availability, course approval), e-mail Michael Schuetz.