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2026-2027 DRAFT Catalog
Business, BS
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Program Information
With an emphasis on the quantitative and analytical skills needed in the business environment, the Bachelor of Science in Business (BSB) provides a solid foundation in the functional areas of business organizations, including accounting, finance, operations, marketing, information technology, and data analysis. While studying the core subjects, students examine a broad range of business-related issues, such as how to organize and run a business; how to identify business opportunities and create value; how to understand profit and success within a global and diverse marketplace and the causes of business success and failure.
The BSB also offers pathway options that allow students to complete graduate coursework toward the following degrees: MS in Marketing, MS in Finance, MBA, MS in Information Technology Management, and MS in Business Analytics. Students also have the option to complete up to 12 units of graduate-level accounting coursework. The BSB implements a flexible course of study designed to build quantitative and analytical skills while maximizing the number of transfer credits that may be applied toward the degree and supporting pathways to graduate study. Student Learning Outcomes Institutional / GE Learning Outcomes - Written Communication: Write clearly and coherently for professional audiences, including contexts that involve AI-mediated drafting and collaboration.
- Oral Communication: Speak clearly and deliver clear, organized presentations appropriate to audience and context.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Interpret quantitative information, evaluate statistical claims, and use computational tools to analyze problems.
- Critical Thinking: Analyze arguments, weigh evidence, and evaluate claims - including those produced by AI systems - with appropriate critical awareness and rigor.
- Information & AI Literacy: Locate, evaluate, and ethically use information from human and AI sources to support inquiry and decision-making.
- Ethical Reasoning: Identify ethical dimensions of professional and personal dilemmas and decisions, including those raised by emerging technologies, and apply principled frameworks to navigate and address them.
- Human & Social Understanding: Apply psychological, social, and economic perspectives to analyze and interpret behaviors, ways of thinking and systems.
Disciplinary Learning Outcomes - Written Business Communication: Produce clear, professional written communications that support business analysis and decision-making.
- Oral Communication and Professional Interaction: Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills through persuasive speech, and in providing clear directions, instructions, and guidelines within a business setting.
- Quantitative Reasoning and AI in Business: Apply financial and quantitative methods, supported by digital tools and artificial intelligence, to interpret and analyze data and inform organizational decision-making.
- Ethics: Demonstrate ethical decision-making in business and develop strategies, practices, and policies that advance ethical management practices and corporate social responsibility.
- Information Literacy for Business Analysis and Decision-Making: Locate, evaluate, and apply relevant information using research methods, digital tools, and artificial intelligence to support business analysis and organizational decision-making.
- Functional Business Knowledge: Integrate and apply core knowledge across functional areas in accounting, finance, management and marketing to develop solutions to complex organizational challenges.
- Leadership: Demonstrate leadership by communicating strategic direction and guiding teams to achieve organizational objectives in dynamic business environments.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Business
The degree requires completion of 120 units as follows: - General Education - 30 units
- Major: Directed Electives - 36 units
- Major: Free Electives - 24 units
- Core Course: Capstone - 3 units
- Free Electives - 27 units
Each course listed carries three semester units of credit, unless otherwise noted. A cumulative grade-point average of 2.00 “C” or higher is required in all courses taken at Golden Gate University. General Education - 30 units
Core Courses - 9 units
Students must complete the following courses: Competencies and Ethics: Directed Electives - 15 units
Select 15 units from the following: General Studies: Free Electives - 6 units
Select 6 units from the following: Major: Directed Electives - 36 units
Select 36 units from the following: Major: Free Electives - 24 units
Students may select 8 courses (24 units) from any of the undergraduate courses, graduate courses or Graduate Pathways below: Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
Graduate Pathway to MS in Marketing
Graduate Pathway to MS in Finance
Graduate Pathway to MS in Information Technology Management
Graduate Pathway to MS in Business Analytics
Graduate Pathway to Financial Planning Certificate
Students who complete the following seven courses will satisfy the requirements for the Graduate Financial Planning Certificate: Core Course: Capstone - 3 units
Free Electives - 27 units
Students may take any 27 units of undergraduate coursework, including transfer credit, or approved graduate courses, or pathways from degrees not directly related to their discipline, to fulfill this requirement. Declaring Minors
Students may declare up to two minors for their bachelor’s degree programs. Students seeking to declare more than two minors will be required to appeal to the dean for approval. Students will not be permitted to declare minors at the point of application but may do so following admission or prior to degree conferral. Students should make their minor declarations through their assigned academic advisors by submission of the Declaration of Minor form. Students’ diplomas will list the minors that they had successfully completed at the time their degrees were conferred. Students may not declare additional minors after their degrees have been conferred. Bachelor’s degree-seeking students may declare the minors shown below. Note: students may not declare minors that are the same as their majors. |
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