Learning Has No Borders
The majority of IB courses are open to students from all majors, and allow students to learn how traditional business skills like accounting and management change as they cross borders. Although a knowledge of business practices is helpful, and upper division standing is usually required, IB courses often have no course prerequisites and are accessible to students from all backgrounds.
All IB Courses
IB 350: International Trade
Study of the principles, policies, and problems of the international exchange of goods and investments. Non-Business majors are encouraged to take the course through its EUS 348.2 cross-listing. Typically offered in the Fall and Spring semesters.
See Spring 2024 details (two sections offered)
IB 360D: International Security
Explore the conditions and motivations behind the use of military force in world politics. Cross-listed as GOV 360D.
Offered annually (varies between Fall and Spring Terms).
IB 362: Global Regulatory Strategy
Discover ways to manage a firm in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Explore how new technology reshapes social norms, legal rules, and society itself in different ways throughout the world.
Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 366: International Accounting & Transfer Pricing
Discover how to price transactions between subsidiaries of multinational corporations buying and selling goods, services, intellectual property, and other assets in light of tax obligations and other considerations.
Typically offered in the Spring semester.
IB 367: Strategic Supply Chain Management
This course is restricted to BBA students.
Restricted to Business Majors. Management of manufacturing process technology in international competition. Cross-listed as OM 367. Prerequisites: O M 334M, 235, or 235H with a grade of at least C-; O M 338; and credit or registration for O M 368.
Typically offered in the Fall and Spring semesters.
IB 367C: Intercultural Management
Acquire tools for understanding culture-based motives and priorities to achieve your goals on international teams, negotiations, and partnerships. Learn how the cultural patterns of world regions and countries affect corporate management.
Formerly IB 372.12. Typically offered in the Spring semester.
IB 367D: Global Entrepreneurship
Explore the practicalities of starting, managing, and exiting a business in a global context. Learn how entrepreneurs analyze opportunities, create business plans, raise funds, compete in a global marketplace, and manage crises through practical experience and real-world examples.
Formerly IB 372.11. Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 368: Global Value Chains
Learn how firms organize international production, trade, and investments within global value chains across multiple countries through outsourcing and offshoring. Hear from industry experts who join the class to discuss real-world global value chain problems.
Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 372: Global Trade & Principles of Import/Export
Restricted to students in the May Term Abroad Program. Contact the BBA Program Office for permission to register for this class. Class meets May 8-June 5 in Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction and overview of the world trading system and international trade policy. Topics include the policies and realities of international economic relations for the United States and major U.S. trading partners, founding trade institutions and their impact on importing and exporting commerce, and a brief history of negotiating rounds, international negotiations, and the anatomy of a Free Trade Agreement. In addition, students will also learn the basics of importing & exporting in relation to the business world, how free trade policy (including institutions, free trade agreements, dispute resolution, etc.) affects normal commerce and trade flows, and key steps to export from the United States.
IB 372.13: Procurement & Supplier Management
This course is restricted to BBA students.
Explores contemporary management problems including: procurement and supplier management; competitive analysis and benchmarking; the purchasing role in fulfilling a firm’s operational and competitive strategies; supplier evaluation, development, and relationship management; and commodity planning. Cross-listed as O M 337.3. Prerequisite: O M 334M, 235 or 235H with a grade of at least C-.
Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 372.14: Intro to Global Finance
Explore how international finance operates in theory, mechanics, and current events. Examine how firms react to risks posed by international developments.
Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 372.15: Global Political Economy
Explore ways for firms to enhance their strategies in the global arena by engaging with international non-market actors such as foreign governments, regulators, political parties, NGOs, and the media. Discover the tools for crafting successful, integrated firm strategies in diverse institutional and political environments.
Cross-listed as BGS 374. Typically offered in the Fall semester.
IB 372.16: Global Marketing
This course is restricted to BBA students.
Gain understanding of the global business environment and how to apply this understanding to marketing strategy, including how to assess and address local and global buyers and competitors, how to select and enter foreign markets, how to best balance global and local considerations when developing the marketing mix, and how to best organize the firm for global marketing
- Prerequisite: MKT 337 or 337H.
- May be counted toward the Global Cultures flag requirement.
- May count toward IB elective hours.
IB 372.17: Global Net Zero Strategy
While governments around the world can write rules and regulations to control global warming, ultimately business will need to produce solutions. The course provides insights into the actions that firms around the world are taking, and whether these actions and innovations will keep the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
IB 378: International Business Operations
This course is restricted to BBA students.
Establishment and conduct of international business operations: trade, investments, branch and subsidiary management, intermediary functions; case studies in international enterprise.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; at least 75 semester hours of coursework, including ECO 339K or IB 350; and credit or registration for one of the following: BA 353 or equivalent practicum course.
Offered only during the spring semester.