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2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Business Administration, BA

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To declare a Business Administration Major:

  • Must have completed a minimum of 30 earned credits
  • Must have a minimum 2.0 GPA in courses required for the major
  • Complete the Major Declaration Form   

Major requirements:

  • Completion of core business, elective, and collateral courses
  • Exit cumulative GPA of 2.00 in major

Business Administration Sample Program  

A student who majors in Business Administration may not also major in Accounting, Digital Marketing, Finance, Management or Marketing.

Business Core Courses

Required Elective Courses

Elective Courses

At three credits from the following:

Collateral Courses

General Education Core Curriculum

Liberal Arts Core

Lutheran Theology

Professional Development

Approaches to Individual and Social Questions

Intercultural Knowledge and Competence

BA Foreign Language

  • For the BA, one of the following:

    Completion of three years of a high school foreign language, two of which must be sequential from the same language or completion of a college level foreign language course:

  • 4 credits
  • 4 credits
  • 4 credits

  • Note: If a course is used to satisfy the foreign language requirement it may not be used to satisfy the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence requirement.

Degree Credit Requirements

  • At least 120 degree credits are required for a bachelor’s degree along with completion of the GENED Curriculum and the requirements of at least one major.
  • There is no limit to the number of credits which may be earned in one department.
  • A minimum of 30 of the final 36 credits must be earned in residence to receive a bachelor’s degree from WLC.
  • Students must also earn at least 15 credits in residence in upper division courses (300 and 400 level) in the major to receive a bachelor’s degree from WLC.
  • If a major requires a capstone course, it is required to be taken at WLC.
  • At least 9 credits in the minor must be taken at WLC.
  • A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 must be achieved to satisfy the degree requirements. Individual programs may require grade point averages higher than a 2.0 for courses used to satisfy the major.

Suggested General Education Sequencing

  • Freshman : COL 101  (Fall), LAS 101   (Spring), Foreign Language/Foreign Language Diversity, Quantitative Reasoning, ENG 101 , COM 101 , THE 105 /THE 110 , ~9 cr. in the major

  • Sophomore: Biblical Theology, PED 100 , 1-2 Approaches, declare major

  • Junior: Applied Theology, 1-2 Approaches

  • Senior: Systematic Theology,  1-2 Approaches, LAS 401 /LAS 402  

 

(Full general education information may be found here.)

 

 

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