Stark State's finance-focused business management major builds strong skills in financial planning, investment markets, and basic taxation, combined with core management knowledge. It prepares students to manage an organization’s current and future finances and supports entry-level roles with growth potential toward financial analysis careers.
Major code: 2061 Business, Engineering, and Information Technologies Division Management, Marketing, and Culinary Arts Department
The catalog in force is assigned to students based on the academic year they first applied to the college, and changes only when students change their major or request the change in writing. Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-28.
2026-27 Catalog
Effective Summer 2026
Some courses listed within the program may require a prerequisite or co-requisite.
Pre/Co-requisites will be listed within each course hyperlink below.
Refer to Policy No. 3357:15-13-04 and 3357:15-13-05
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | ||
| ACC130 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| BUS121 | Business Administration | 3 |
| FIN220 | Business Finance | 3 |
| FIN221 | Investments and Securities | 3 |
| FIN227 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| MGT121 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGT221 | Supervision | 3 |
| MGT223 | Business Decision Making | 4 |
| MGT224 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| MKT121 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Non-technical | ||
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| ACC132 | Financial Accounting 1 | 4 |
| ACC133 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| BUS124 | Business Analysis | 3 |
| BUS221 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| BUS222 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| COM121 | Effective Speaking | 3 |
| ENG124 | College Composition | 3 |
| AOT226 | Spreadsheet - Microsoft Excel | 3 |
| or ITD122 | Computer Applications for Professionals | |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Statistics 2 | ||
| College Algebra 2 | ||
| Select one (1) Arts & Humanities Elective | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 64-65 | |
- 1
Student may elect to take ACC121 Introduction to Accounting prior to taking this course.
- 2
Should only be taken by students planning to transfer to a four-year institution.
Full-time Student Advising Notes
Academic Advising
Students should make an appointment to see their advisor before registering for classes each semester. They should have prepared a completed registration form, including courses they wish to take, prior to this meeting.
Course Sequence
The semester-by-semester listing below provides the normal scheduling option for full-time associate degree students who plan to finish in two years.
| First Semester | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| SSC101 | Student Success Seminar | 1 |
| BUS121 | Business Administration | 3 |
| AOT226 or ITD122 |
Spreadsheet - Microsoft Excel or Computer Applications for Professionals |
3 |
| BUS124 | Business Analysis | 3 |
| ENG124 | College Composition | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||
| Statistics 2 | ||
| College Algebra 2 | ||
| Hours | 16-17 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ACC130 | Business Law and Ethics | 3 |
| MGT121 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| BUS221 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| ACC132 | Financial Accounting 1 | 4 |
| COM121 | Effective Speaking | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| MGT221 | Supervision | 3 |
| MKT121 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| FIN227 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| ACC133 | Managerial Accounting | 4 |
| FIN221 | Investments and Securities | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Fourth Semester | ||
| MGT224 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| BUS222 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| MGT223 | Business Decision Making | 4 |
| FIN220 | Business Finance | 3 |
| Arts Humanities Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Total Hours | 64-65 | |
Arts & Humanities Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENG233 | British Literature: Medieval to 1785 | 3 |
| ENG234 | British Literature: 1785 to Present | 3 |
| ENG235 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG236 | American Literature: Colonial to 1865 | 3 |
| ENG237 | American Literature: 1865 to Present | 3 |
| ENG240 | Women's Literature | 3 |
| ENG241 | Major Modern Writers | 3 |
| HIS121 | United States History I to 1877 | 3 |
| HIS122 | United States History II from 1877 | 3 |
| PHL122 | Ethics | 3 |
Program Learning Outcomes
This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- Describe and analyze patterns of organizational behavior within contemporary organizations and apply management skills, human relations skills and motivational methods to create and maintain a positive work environment.
- Apply appropriate mathematical, statistical and other quantitative and business methods to analyze business situations.
- Demonstrate and apply professionalism, teamwork, and written and oral communications skills.
- Utilize specialized business skills in the areas of marketing, entrepreneurship, business development, operations, economics, as applicable, to understand businesses and how they interact with stakeholders inside and outside the organization.
- Formulate goals and strategies to analyze the internal and external environment of business and demonstrate proficiency with developing strategies to identify and solve organizational problems for new and existing businesses.