ADDITIONAL MAJOR IN BUSINESS
Curriculum Requirements: Additional Major in Business
A minimum of 120 semester hours is required for all students who graduate from Hebrew
Theological College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Students pursuing an additional major
in Business must complete 38-39 semester hours in Business and related courses, as outlined
below.
Residency Requirement
The following 14-15 semester hours must be completed in residence:
- BUSN 385 Business Policy and Strategic Management (3 semester hours)
- 3 additional Business courses at the 300 level or above (9 semester hours)
- PHIL 302 Fundamentals of Jewish Business Ethics (2 semester hours)
or
PHIL 322 Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics (3 semester hours)
Judaic Studies: Consistent with the mission and policies of Hebrew Theological College,
all degree-seeking students pursuing an additional major in Business or Accounting must
complete the requirements for a primary major in an area of Judaic Studies. Any students
not progressing satisfactorily (see Academic Progress Policy, page 90) in the Judaic Studies
major will not be permitted to continue in the additional major program.
General Education: Students must complete HTC’s General Education Requirements as
listed in the catalog. Additional requirements:
- ENGL 211 Advanced Composition: Writing Across the Disciplines. or ENGL 213
Business Communication: Clarity and Persuasion, either of which satisfies the
LAS Core requirements. - BUSN/MATH 272 preceded by either MATH 105 or ACCT 250 / MATH 250
Mathematics and Computation for Business Majors, which satisfies the LAS
mathematics requirement. A student who lacks the appropriate background must
take the needed prerequisites before enrolling in these courses. - PHIL 302 Fundamentals of Jewish Business Ethics (2 semester hours)
or PHIL 322 Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics (3 semester hours).
Either course may be used to partially satisfy the AHS Philosophy requirement. - BUSN 215 Macroeconomics or BUSN 217 Microeconomics may be used to
satisfy the LAS requirement in Behavioral and Social Sciences.
consists of 36 semester hours as outlined below:
MATH 301 Probability and Statistics
CAIS 215 Database Systems
CAIS 231 Visual Programming
CAIS 310 Statistical Programming
CAIS 315 Advanced Database Programming
An additional course in Statistical Programming may be substituted, upon
approval of advisor.
CAIS 318 Data Mining
CONCENTRATION IN ECOMMERCE AND WEB-BASED BUSINESS
The concentration in Ecommerce and Web-based Business is a cross-disciplinary
curriculum of the Department of Business and the Department of Computer and Information
Sciences. It provides a foundation in web technologies used by businesses to build and
maintain their websites, with an emphasis on the graphics design tools needed to develop
websites that conform to both aesthetic and functional design standards. Students opting for
an additional major in Business or Accounting who choose to pursue a concentration in
Ecommerce and Web-based Business must complete an additional 18 credits in BUSN and
CAIS. At least nine credit hours in this concentration must be taken in residence.
CAIS 250 Introduction to Web Programming
CAIS 263 Web Site Design and Development I
CAIS 271 Graphic and Multimedia Design I
CAIS 272 Graphic and Multimedia Design II
CAIS 363 Web Site Design and Development II
One additional course at the 300 level from the Departments of Business or
Computer and Information Systems, with advisor approval.
