The second block of the BBA degree plan is the lower-level business core. It consists of six courses for a total of 17 hours.[1]
The lower-level core is pretty straight-forward. There is an issue with BUSI 2345. Here are the details:
| Course number | Course Title | TCCN Equivalent |
| ACCT 2301 | Principles of Financial Accounting | ACCT 2301 |
| ACCT 2302 | Principles of Managerial Accounting | ACCT 2302 |
| BUSI 1301 | Business Principles | BUSI 1301 |
| BUSI 2342 | Principles of Statistics | BUSI 2305. Actually, we’ll accept pretty much any first-semester statistics course as a substitute. |
| BUSI 2345 | Data Analysis with Excel | No equivalent, but transferring in TCCN BCIS 1305 may substitute for this course. Do not send students to take our COSC 1335 for this course. |
| ECON 2302 | Principles of Microeconomics | ECON 2302 |
Transferring in TCCN BCIS 1305
Notice the comment for BUSI 2345. BCIS 1305 is part of the business FoS, which means that if someone transfers it in, we must accept it in the degree plan somewhere. We have two options for that. The student can either
- use BCIS 1305 in place of BUSI 2345 or
- use BCIS 1305 in place of an upper-level business elective and take BUSI 2345.
It really all depends on if the student wants to take our spreadsheets class, BUSI 2345, enough to lose an upper-level business elective to BCIS 1305. The BBA degree plan allows a student up to six hours of lower-level courses in lieu of upper-level courses. The only way we allow that to happen is (a) if the student transfers in a lower-level business law course, TCCN BUSI 2301, and (b) transfers in BCIS 1305 and wants to use it for a business elective, so that the student can also take BUSI 2345.
THECB Guide to Implementing the FoS
The THECB’s guide to implementing the FoS is a useful resource. It can be found here.
Footnotes
- One of ECON 2302's hours is applied to the Gen Ed Component Area Option. See the previous chapter for an explanation. ↵
Texas Common Core Number. A standardized course-numbering system for saying that one course from Campus A is the same course as one from Campus B.