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Required Courses in the BA Program

Note: The following curriculum is in effect beginning Fall 2006. Note that you may use the graduation requirements in effect at any time you were attending Boise State.

In addition to the Core requirements, students must take the following courses, as indicated below.

• the following English courses: (27 credits)
  • ENGL 302 Technical Rhetoric
  • ENGL 304 Argument
  • ENGL 312 Technical Communication Applications (formerly ENGL 402 Advanced Technical Communication)
  • ENGL 403 Technical Editing
  • ENGL 405 Print Document Production
  • ENGL 415 On-Screen Document Production
  • ENGL 493 Internship (3 credits)
  • ENGL 499 Senior Seminar in Technical Communication
• the following Information Technology and Supply Chain Management courses: (9 credits)
  • ITM 104 Operating Systems and Word Processing Topics (1 credit)
  • ITM 105 Spreadsheet Topics (1 credit)
  • ITM 106 Database Topics (1 credit)
  • ITM 310 Business Intelligence (3 credits).
    • If you are using the 2006-07 Catalog and have not yet taken CIS 310, take ITM 310 Business Intelligence.
    • If you are using an earlier Catalog and have not yet taken CIS 310, take ENGL 499 Senior Seminar in Technical Communication. Your instructor will sign the Academic Adjustment form.)
  • ITM 315 Database Systems (3 credits).

two courses from the following: (6 credits)

• ART 107
• ART 108
• COMM 101 Fundamentals of Speech Communication
• COMM 302 Research Methods
• COMM 304 Perspectives of Inquiry
• COMM 307 Interviewing
• COMM 321 Rhetorical Theories
• COMM 361 Organizational Communication
• COMM 390 Conflict Management
• COMM 478 Public Relations
• COMM 481 Studies in Interpersonal Communication
• COMM 483 Studies in Organizational Communication
• COMM 484 Studies in Rhetoric and Public Persuasion

one course from the following: (3 credits)

• ACCT 205 Introduction to Financial Accounting
• ACCT 206 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• GENBUS 441 Business, Government, and Society
• MGMT 301 Management and Organizational Theory
• MGMT 401 Organizational Behavior
• MGMT 405 Management of Continuous Learning
• SOC 487 Organizational Theory and Bureaucratic Structure

Note. ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics is now a Core II requirement, in the "Area II core course in a second field" slot.

Revised 28 October 2009.