Finance, B.S.

The Finance major consists of 75 credits. All students must complete 39 credit hours of the Business Core, 18 credits of Non-Business Related Courses, and 18 credits of Finance coursework.

Required Business Courses

Majors must complete a minimum of 30 credits in the major at Westfield State University in order to graduate.

Required Business Core - 39 Credits

ACCT 0104 - Principles of Accounting I Credits: 3
ACCT 0105 - Principles of Accounting II Credits: 3
FINC 0207 - Financial Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0107 - Software Applications in Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0220 - Production/Operations Management Credits: 3
MGMT 0221 - Business Management: A Survey of Organizational Development and Management Principles Credits: 3
MGMT 0241 - Business Law I Credits: 3
MGMT 0250 - Quantitative Approaches to Business Decisions Credits: 3
MGMT 0308 - Organizational Development & Behavior Credits: 3
MGMT 0321 - Management Information Systems Credits: 3
or ACCT 0345 - Accounting Information Systems Credits: 3
MGMT 0325 - Business Policy and Strategy Credits: 3
MGMT 0338 - International Business Credits: 3
MRKT 0231 - Marketing Management Credits: 3

Non-Business Required Courses - 18 Credits

ECON 0101 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ECON 0102 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ENGL 0103 - Speech Credits: 3
ENGL 0392 - Business and Technical Writing Credits: 3
MATH 0108 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 3
MATH 0115 - Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences Credits: 3 *

Note:

* MATH 0105 or MATH 0106 , Calculus I or II, will also satisfy this requirement.

Finance - 18 Credits

FINC 0318 - Advanced Financial Management Credits: 3
FINC 0312 - Investments: Security Analysis Credits: 3
FINC 0319 - Investments: Portfolio Management Credits: 3
FINC 0326 - Insurance and Risk Management Credits: 3
FINC 0320 - Money and Banking Credits: 3
or ECON 0300 - Money and Banking Credits: 3
FINC 0305 - Introduction to Econometric Methods Credits: 3
or ECON 0305 - Introduction to Econometric Methods Credits: 3
ECON 0305 - Introduction to Econometric Methods Credits: 3

Additional Graduation Requirements

All students must meet the University Graduation Requirements and complete a general education or common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in General Education: WISE or Common Core .