Business Administration in Equine Business (BSB)

This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2011 - Spring 2012 catalog year. For more
information about catalog year, go to Catalog Year Information.

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Equine Business

Major: EQIN

Degree: BSB

Unit: College of Business (BU)

Department: Economics

Program: Equine Industry Program

The mission of the Equine Business Discipline is to motivate students and professionals in the industry to read, think and
question; encourage development of the analytical, entrepreneurial, and management skills needed by the equine industry;
inspire enthusiasm, develop leadership; respond to the equine industry's dramatically changing economic environment by
undertaking rigorous, meaningful research; disseminate to the industry through publications, seminars, workshops or state-of-
the-art technology, research results and accumulated knowledge, and other business related skills.

+ See general education requirements section of this Catalog for course choices.

University wide General Education

Type Hours

English 101 and 102 6

Comm 111, 112, 115, PolS 111, or WGST 203 3

Math (See Programmatic Req.) *(3)

+ Natural Sciences 7

+ Arts & Humanities 6

+ Social & Behaviorial Sciences *(9)6

Total 28(34)

* Note: Programmatic Requirements include six hours of the

Gen. Ed. (3 hours Math and 3 hours Social & Behaviorial Sciences)
Programmatic Requirements of the COB

Type Hours

Camp 100 Campus Culture 1

Business 101 Logic of Business 3

Mathematics 180 or 205 *(completes Math Gen Ed) 31

Ethics, Phil 222, 225, 321 or 323 3

English 306 Business Writing 3

BUS 201 Career Development 1

Accounting 201-202 6

Economics 201-202 *(Completes 3 hours of Soc. & Beh. Sci.) 6

Management 201 (Statistics) 3

CIS 100 Microcomputer Applications 3

General Electives 3

Total 35

Business Breadth

Type Hours

FIN 301 Corporate Finance 3

MKT 301 Principles of Marketing 3

MGMT 301 Management and Org. Behavior 3

CLAW 301 Legal Environment of Business 3

CIS 300 Computer Information Systems 3

MGMT 401 Operations Management 3

Minimum Total 18

Equine Business Depth

Type Hours

EQIN 101 Equine Management 3

EQIN 202 Horse Industry Overview 3

EQIN 301 Org & Admin of Equine Ops 3

EQIN 302 Equine Economics 3

EQIN 304 Equine Marketing 3

EQIN 313 Equine Commercial Law 3

EQIN 402 Enterprise Analysis 3

EQIN 403 Equine Financial Management 3

EQIN 404 Current Equine Issues 3

EQIN 499 Independent Study or specified business elective2 3

EQIN Electives (EQIN 203, 205, 206, 303, 398, 401, 406, 490) 1-3

Business or Equine Elective (300-400 level) 3

Arts and Sciences Electives 12

*EQIN 398 Co-op in Equine (must have at least 3.0 GPA; optional course)

Minimum Total 1273

Note: All prerequisites must be followed.
1
If Math 205 is taken, there will be 4 total hours of math.
2
Students may select one of the following courses instead of the Independent Study: ACCT 353, ACCT 401, ECON 401,
ECON 402, ENTR 401 (must be admitted to ENTR Minor) FIN 401, FIN 402, FIN 414, FIN 441, FIN 450, MGMT 405,
MGMT 441, or MKT 441
3
6 hours of cultural diversity courses are required and may be included with the degree program.