Gateway and Open Courses

COBE’s nine (9) gateway courses will consist of the following with an earned, minimum grade of C- or better:

Note: A student must achieve a minimum COBE Gateway GPA of 2.5. If a student completes all COBE gateways with the minimum acceptable grade of C-, their COBE gateway GPA would be 1.7 and not high enough for COBE admission. We encourage all students to aim high and do exceptionally well in the 9 COBE gateway courses.

Current Gateway Courses:

• ACCT 205 – Introduction to Financial Accounting
• ACCT 206 – Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• BUS 101 – Business for the New Generation
• BUSCOM 201 – Business Communication
• BUSSTAT 207 – Introduction to Business Analytics
• ECON 201 – Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 202 – Principles of Microeconomics
• ITM 105 – Spreadsheet Topics
• MATH 149 – Precalculus: Function for Business or MATH 143 – College Algebra

Open COBE Courses

COBE’s open courses will be available for any student to take without having a COBE admitted status. However, each student must have the corresponding prerequisites in order to enroll in each class. Prerequisites can be found in the most current catalog.

Please see your academic advisor if you have any questions regarding your eligibility for COBE Admission.

• ACCT 485 – Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) 
• BUS 301 – Leadership Skills
• ECON 307 – Cost-Benefit Analysis
• ECON 311 – History of Economic Thought
• ECON 315 – Global Economic Development 
• ECON 325 – Heterodox Political Economy
• ECON 327 – Labor Economics
• ECON 333 – Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 341 – Quantitative Methods in Economics 
• ECON 405 – United States Economic History 
• ECON 410 – Public Finance 
• ECON 431 – Regional Economics 
• ECON 432 – Urban Economics 
• ECON 440 – Health Economics
• ECON 455 – Decisions, Choices and Happiness in Behavioral Economics
• ECON 471 – Economic Growth 
• ECON 474 – Sustainability and Economic Policy
• FINAN 303 – Principles of Finance 
• HRM 305 – Human Resource Management
• ITM 310 – Business Intelligence
• ITM 315- Database Systems 
• ITM 320  – Systems Planning and Analysis 
• ITM 340 – Big Data and Web Analytics
• ITM 370 – Mobile Application Development 
• ITM 415 – Advanced Database
• ITM 430 – Predictive Analytics 
• MKTG 301 – Principles of Marketing
• MKTG 401 – Advertising Agency Operations 
• MKTG 402 – Creative Agency Immersion 
• MKTG 422 – Innovation New Product Development 
• MKTG 424 – Category Management 
• NONPROF 340 – Volunteer Management and the Nonprofit 
• NONPROF 440 – Funding for Nonprofits 
• SCM 301- Principles of Supply Chain Management