Prerequisite Guides - Leavey School of Business

Understand your course pre-requisites

This sequence chart will help you determine which course sequence you need to follow. Use the chart and the table below to complete your Requirements Checklists and Course Planning Worksheets.

Students may also confer with their academic advisor or an LSB Peer Advisor.

Course #	Course Title	Prerequisite
ACTG 5	Personal Financial Planning	BUSN students only (4 units)
ACTG 11	Introduction to Financial Accounting	Must be second year student and BUSN 70 or BUSN 170. Restricted to students who need this course to meet program requirements. Seniors who have not completed BUSN 70 may take this class with department permission on a space-available basis.
ACTG 12	Introduction to Managerial Accounting	Must be a second-year student and have completed BUSN 70 or 170. Seniors who have not completed BUSN 70 may take this class with department permission on a space-available basis.
ACTG 20	Recording Financial Transactions	ACTG 11 and must have 70 completed units or department's permission is required prior to enrollment. Course may not be taken before spring quarter of the sophomore year. For Fall and Winter enrollment, students must be concurrently enrolled
ACTG 130	Intermediate Financial Accounting I	Open to business majors only. ACTG 12 and 20, and must have 96 completed units or department's permission prior to enrollment. (ACTG 20 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 131	Intermediate Financial Accounting II	Open to business majors only. ACTG 130.
ACTG 132	Advanced Financial Accounting	Open to business majors only. ACTG 131
ACTG 134	Accounting Information Systems	Open to business majors only. ACTG 11 and 12. (ACTG 12 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 135	Auditing	Open to business majors only. ACTG 131. (ACTG 131 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 136	Cost Accounting	Open to business majors only. ACTG 130.
ACTG 138	Tax Planning & Business Decisions	Open to business majors only. ACTG 11 and 12. (ACTG 12 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 144	Accounting Ethics	Open to business majors only. ACTG 11 and 12, and either PHIL 26 or MGMT 6. This course must be taken for a letter grade.
ACTG 150	Financial Fraud Detection & Investigation	Open to business majors only. ACTG 131.
ACTG 151	Financial Statement Analysis	Open to business majors only. ACTG 11 and FNCE 121 or 121S.
ACTG 155	Financial Information Systems	OMIS 30 or 31, and OMIS 105. (5 units)
ACTG 161	Junior Contemporary Business Seminar Series I	Open to accounting and accounting and information systems majors only. ACTG 12 and 20. (ACTG 20 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 162	Junior Contemporary Business Seminar Series II	Open to accounting and accounting and information systems majors only. ACTG 12 and 20. (ACTG 20 may be taken concurrently.)
ACTG 171	Senior Contemporary Business Seminar Series I	Open only to senior-declared accounting and accounting and information systems majors.
ACTG 172	Senior Contemporary Business Seminar Series II	Open only to senior-declared accounting and accounting and information systems majors.
ACTG 191	Peer Educator in Accounting	Declared accounting major and permission of Instructor and Chair required prior to enrollment.
ACTG 198	Accounting Internship	Declared accounting major and permission of instructor and chair required prior to enrollment. (2-5 units)
ACTG 199	Directed Reading/Directed Research	Declared accounting major and permission of instructor and chair required prior to enrollment. ( 2-5 units)
BUSN 70	Contemporary Business Issues	Fall ONLY - Course restricted to incoming freshman business students. After freshman orientation, course will open up to students who need this course to meet program requirements. Other students may seek department permission to enroll in sections that
BUSN 71	Foundations of Leadership	-
BUSN 72	Business Leadership Skills	-
BUSN 85	Business Law	BUSN 70 and completion of 45 units, or permission of instructor
BUSN 132	Co-creative Leadership and Sustainability Program	-
BUSN 145	Entrepreneurship Practicum	-
BUSN 150	Feeding the World	-
BUSN 151	Food, Hunger, Poverty, Environment Immersion	-
BUSN 170	Contemporary Business for Non-majors	Must have completed at least 87.5 units. You may not take this course if you have completed BUSN 70.
BUSN 179	Effective Communication in Business	CTW 1 & 2 and OMIS 40. Must have completed at least 60 units.
BUSN 179S	Effective Communication in Business	CTW 1 & 2 and OMIS 40. Must have completed at least 60 units. Leavey Scholars
BUSN 180	Effective Presentations in Business	88 units. LSB Major or Minor. BUSN 179 preferred. (Non LSB Students with permission of instructor).
BUSN 182	Global Experience Practicum	-
BUSN 183	LSB Community Fellows Seminar	Must be a Leavey School of Business Community fellow.
BUSN 188	Field Studies: Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative	BUSN 188 is a continuation of a winter quarter course. Only students enrolled in BUSN 188 in the winter quarter are eligible to enroll in spring.
BUSN 189	Ethics and Practice of Offers in Compromise	ACTG 11, Junior or Senior standing, permission of instructor
BUSN 190	LSB Peer Advising Practicum	Must be a Leavey School of Business Peer Advisor.
BUSN 195A	The Global Fellow Experience	Must be a Leavey School of Business Peer Advisor.
BUSN 196	Leadership Practicum	Requires approval of the Assistant Dean of the Leavey School of Business.
BUSN 197	Business/Engineering Project Collaboration	Must be a Leavey School of Business Student and a Junior or Senior to enroll.
BUSN 197B	Business/Engineering Project Collaboration	Must be a Leavey School of Business Student and a Junior or Senior to enroll. Prerequisite Busn 197A.
BUSN 198	Internship/Practicum	Requires approval of assistant dean or dean. May be included as fulfilling a requirement for a major only with permission of that department chair.
ECON 1	Principles of Microeconomics	None
ECON 1E	Principles of Microeconomics	None
ECON 2	Principles of Macroeconomics	ECON 1
ECON 3	International Economics, Development, and Growth	ECON 1 and 2
ECON 3H	International Economics, Development, and Growth	ECON 1 and 2
ECON 41	Data analysis and econometrics	a grade of C- or better in ECON 1 and 2, and MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 8, or MATH 122, or OMIS 40, or AMTH 108, or equivalent. Economics majors only, or by permission of instructor. Must enroll simultaneously in ECON 42.
ECON 42	Data analysis applications	a grade of C- or better in ECON 1 and 2, and MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 8, or MATH 122, or OMIS 40, or AMTH 108 or equivalent. Economics majors only, or by permission of instructor. Must enroll simultaneously in ECON 41.
ECON 43	Data Wrangling and Visualization	grade of C- or better in ECON 41 and 42; or OMIS 30, 40, and 41. (2 units)
ECON 101	Resources, Food, and the Environment	-
ECON 111	Economics of the Environment	a grade of C- or better in ECON 1
ECON 113	Intermediate Microeconomics I	Additional prerequisite: a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30.
ECON 114	Intermediate Microeconomics II	a grade of C- or better in ECON 113 and MATH 11 or 30.
ECON 115	Intermediate Macroeconomics	a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30.
ECON 120	Economics of the Public Sector	-
ECON 122	Money & Banking	-
ECON 126	Economics & Law	-
ECON 129	Economic Development	-
ECON 134	African Economic Development	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41 and 42 or by permission of instructor.
ECON 135	Gender Issues in the Developing World	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41 and 42 or permission of instructor.
ECON 136	20th-century Economic History	a grade of C- or better in ECON 115.
ECON 137	World Economic History	a grade of C- or better in ECON 115 or permission of instructor.
ECON 138	History of Economic Thought	-
ECON 139	American Economic History	a grade of C- or better in ECON 115.
ECON 142	Economics of Sports	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, 113, and 114.
ECON 150	Labor Economics	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, and 113.
ECON 155	Economics of Immigration	ECON 3 and OMIS 41 or MATH 8
ECON 160	Economics of Poverty and Inequality	ECON 3
ECON 165	Economics and Justice	Additional prerequisite: a grade of C- or better in ECON 113.
ECON 166	Race, Ethinicity, and Gender in the US Economy	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41 and 42.
ECON 170	Mathematical Economics I: Static Optimization	a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 12 or 31, and ECON 113, or permission of instructor.
ECON 171	Mathematical Economics II: Dynamic Optimization	a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 12 or 31, and ECON 113, or permission of instructor.
ECON 172	Game Theory	a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 12 or 31, and ECON 113, or permission of instructor.
ECON 173	Econometrics	a grade of C- or better in MATH 11 or 30, and MATH 12 or 31, and ECON 41 and 42, and ECON 113.
ECON 174	Time Series Analysis	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, and 115.
ECON 181	International Trade	a grade of C- or better in ECON 113.
ECON 182	International Finance & Open Economy Macroeconomics	Additional prerequisite: a grade of C- or better in ECON 115.
ECON 185	The Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property	Additional prerequisite: a grade of C- or better in ECON 113 and 114.
ECON 186	Economics of Digitization	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, 113 and 1.
ECON 187	Dynamic Macroeconomics	a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, 113, and 115.
ECON 188	Advanced Macroeconomics: Theory and Empirics	Additional prerequisites: a grade of C- or better in ECON 41, 42, and 115.
ECON 190	Economics Seminar	Admission by invitation only.
ECON 199	Directed Reading/Directed Research	Written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair at least one week prior to registration.
FNCE 115	Quantitative Methods for Finance	FNCE 121
FNCE 116	Mathematical Finance	FNCE 115 or MATH 122 or AMTH 108. MATH 53 or permission of the instructor is required if FNCE 115 has not been taken. Cross-listed with MATH 125 and AMTH 367.
FNCE 118	Real Estate Principles	88+ units (junior/senior standing) or ACTG 11.
FNCE 121	Financial Management	ACTG 11, OMIS 40 and proficiency with spreadsheets. Restricted to students who need this course to meet program requirements
FNCE 121S	Financial Management	Enrollment in the Leavey Scholars Program, ACTG 11, OMIS 40, and proficiency with spreadsheets.
FNCE 124	Investments & Investment Institutions	FNCE 121 or 121S.
FNCE 125	Corporate Financial Policy	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124.
FNCE 126	Money & Capital Markets	FNCE 121 or 121S, 124 and 125.
FNCE 127	Introduction to Real Estate Transactions	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 118
FNCE 128	Real Estate Finance	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124.
FNCE 129	Real Estate Development	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 118.
FNCE 130	Ethics in Finance	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124.
FNCE 132	Financial Derivatives	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124.
FNCE 134	Fixed Income Securities	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124.
FNCE 135	Applied Portfolio Management	FNCE 121 or 121S, FNCE 124, and OMIS 41.
FNCE 141	New Venture Finance	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124.
FNCE 143	Entrepreneurial Finance	FNCE 121 and 124
FNCE 146	Introduction to Risk Management	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124.
FNCE 148	Principles of Risk Management & Insurance	FNCE 121or 121S and 124.
FNCE 149	Financial Institutions and Services	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 1.
FNCE 151	International Financial Management	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124
FNCE 155	Family Business Financial Management	Prerequisites: FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124
FNCE 163	Investment Practice	FNCE 121 or 121S, FNCE 124, and instructor approval.
FNCE 170	Business Valuation	FNCE 121 or 121S and 124.
FNCE 172	Corporate Treasury Management	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124.
FNCE 174	Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Governance	FNCE 121 or 121S, and FNCE 124.
FNCE 180	Open Book Management	FNCE 121 or 121S, FNCE 124, and FNCE 1.
FNCE 186	Applying Financial Models to Financial Data	FNCE 121 or 121S, FNCE 124, and FNCE 125 (or permission of instructor).
FNCE 191	Peer Educators in Finance	Enrollment is by permission of the instructor.
FNCE 197	Special Topcs in Finance	FNCE 121 or 121S
FNCE 198	Internship	Finance major, junior or senior standing, successful completion of FNCE 121 or FNCE 121S, and permission of instructor and chair required one week prior to registration. Anything less than 5 units will not count toward major requirements.
FNCE 199	Independent Study	Declared finance major, junior or senior standing, and written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair one week prior to registration.
MGMT 6	Business Ethics	Students who take PHIL 26 may not take this course for credit.
MGMT 6H	Business Ethics	Enrollment restricted to students in the University Honors or Leavey Scholars programs.
MGMT 40	Foundational Knowledge of Managing for Sustainability	-
MGMT 41	Foundational Skills of Managing for Sustainabililty	-
MGMT 42	Leading from the Triple Bottom Line	-
MGMT 80	Global and Cultural Environment of Business	BUSN 70 or 170, and ECON 3.
MGMT 160	Management of Organizations	Students must have completed 60 units.
MGMT 160S	Management of Organizations - LSP	Open only to students in the Leavey Scholars program. Must have completed 60 units.
MGMT 162	Strategic Analysis-The Business Capstone	ECON 41 and 42 or OMIS 41; FNCE 121 or 121S; MGMT 80, 160, or 160S; MKTG 181 or 181S; and senior standing.
MGMT 162S	Strategic Analysis - Business Capstone	ECON 41 and 42 or OMIS 41; FNCE 121 or 121S; MGMT 80, 160, or 160S; MKTG 181 or 181S; senior standing; and a minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA.
MGMT 164	Introduction to Entrepreneurship	ACTG 11 and MKTG 181.
MGMT 165	Building a New Business	MGMT 164
MGMT 166	Human Resource Management	MGMT 160 or 160S; or permission of instructor.
MGMT 169	Business and Public Policy	-
MGMT 170	International Management	MGMT 80 (MGMT 160 or 160S recommended).
MGMT 171	Managerial Communication	MGMT 160 or 160,; or permission of instructor.
MGMT 172	Soc. Entrep	Students must have completed 87.5 units.
MGMT 173	Resources, Food, and the Environment	-
MGMT 174	Social Psychology of Leadership	Student must have completed 87.5 units. Note: This course is required for those completing the Leadership Studies Certificate Program.
MGMT 175	Managing Family Businesses	MGMT 160 or 160S.
MGMT 177	Managing with the Internet	-
MGMT 179	Project Management	MGMT 160 or 160S or permission of the instructor
MGMT 180	Negotiation Skills in Business	MGMT 160 or 160S, may be taken concurrently with instructor permission.
MGMT 181	Conscientious Capitalism	-
MGMT 197	Special Topics in Management	MGMT 160 or 160S.
MGMT 198	Internship/Practicum	MGMT160 or 160S, and two other courses from the following list: 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177. The student must have completed 60 units and have approval of the undergraduate committee one week prior to registration.
MGMT 198E	Internship in Entrepreneurship	MGMT 164 and must have a declared entrepreneurship minor. MGMT 165 may be taken concurrently.
MGMT 199	Directed Reading/Directed Research	MGMT 160 or 160S, and written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair one week prior to registration.
MKTG 165	Multi-Channel Retail Marketing	ACTG 11 and MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 168	Advanced Retail Seminar	MKTG 165, 181, or 181S, and declared retail studies minor. MKTG 168 must be taken prior to 169.
MKTG 169	Advanced Retail Seminar	MKTG 165, 181, or 181S, and declared retail studies minor. MKTG 168 must be taken prior to 169.
MKTG 175	Internet Marketing	MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 177	Social Media Marketing	MKTG 181 or MKTG 181(s)
MKTG 178	Marketing Across Cultures	MKTG 181 or 181S and MGMT 80.
MKTG 181	Principles of Marketing	Must have 60 units or greater, or permission of instructor.
MKTG 181S	Principles of Marketing	Enrollment restricted to students in the Leavey Scholars Program. Must have 60 units or greater, or permission of instructor.
MKTG 182	Market Analysis	OMIS 41 or ECON 42 and MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 183	Customer Behavior	OMIS 41 or ECON 42 and MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 185	Sales Management	Prerequisite: MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 186	Integrated Marketing Communications	MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 187	Innovation & New Product Marketing	MKTG 181 or 181S.
MKTG 189	Sustainability Marketing	MKTG 181 or 181S
MKTG 197	Special Topics in Marketing	MKTG 181 or 181S and declared marketing major.
MKTG 198	Internship	Declared marketing major, MKTG 181 or 181S, 182, and permission of faculty coordinator.
MKTG 199	Independent Study	Written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair at least two weeks prior to registration.
OMIS 15	Introductions to Spreadsheets	Students must have at least 87.5 units completed
OMIS 17	Introduction to Business Computing	Students may not take both OMIS 15 and 17 for credit.
OMIS 30	Introduction to Programming	Students who receive credit for CSCI 10 (formerly MATH 10), COEN 6, COEN 11, or OMIS 31 may not take this course for credit.
OMIS 34	Science, Information Technology, Business and Society	-
OMIS 40	Statistics and Data Analysis I	MATH 11 or 30, and OMIS 15 or 17.
OMIS 41	Statistics and Data Analysis II	OMIS 15 or 17, and OMIS 40.
OMIS 43	Data Wrangling and Visualization	MATH 30 and OMIS 40
OMIS 105	Database Management Systems	OMIS 30
OMIS 106	Systems Analysis and Design	OMIS 30
OMIS 107	Systems Programming	OMIS 30
OMIS 108	Operations Management	OMIS 41 or ECON 41 and 42.
OMIS 108E	Sustainable Operations Management	OMIS 41 or ECON 41 and 42.
OMIS 108S	Operations Management	OMIS 41 or ECON 41 and 42
OMIS 109	Prescriptive Analytics	OMIS 41 or ECON 41 and 42.
OMIS 110	Computer Simulation Modeling	OMIS 41 or ECON 41 and 42 and OMIS 30
OMIS 111	Computer Communications Systems	OMIS 30
OMIS 113	Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence	OMIS 30, and OMIS 105.
OMIS 114	Data Science with Python	OMIS 30
OMIS 115	Predictive Analytics	OMIS 114
OMIS 116	Applied Machine Learning	OMIS 30
OMIS 117	Software Development Project	OMIS 30
OMIS 120	Web Programming	OMIS 30, and 1. (5 units)
OMIS 135	Enterprise Resource Planning Systems	OMIS 105 or COEN 178.
OMIS 137	Object-Oriented Programming	OMIS 30
OMIS 145	Competitive Quality	ECON 1 and OMIS 108/108E/108S.
OMIS 150	Financial Information Systems	OMIS 30, and OMIS 105.
OMIS 170	Physical Database Design	OMIS 105.
OMIS 173	E-Commerce Technologies	OMIS 30
OMIS 198	Internship	Upper-division standing and approval of the Undergraduate Committee one week prior to registration Written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair one week prior to registration.
OMIS 199	Directed Reading/Directed Research	Note: A student cannot use a collection of directed reading/directed research courses to satisfy the upper-division course requirement for any of the OMIS department’s major or minor programs. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing and approval of the undergraduate committee one week prior to registration. Written proposal must be approved by instructor and chair one week prior to registration.