College of Business and Global Affairs

Dr. Joey Mehlhorn, Interim Dean
100 Business Administration Building
mehlhorn@utm.edu
Phone: 731-881-7306

Organization

The College of Business & Global Affairs (CBGA) has two academic departments: (a) Accounting, Economics, Finance, and (b) Management, Marketing, and Information Systems. The College also has within its umbrella the Office of Advising Services, Office of MBA Program and Student Services, the Dunagan Chair of Excellence in Banking, the Hendrix Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise, and the Regional Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (REED) Center.

Vision Statement

CBGA will be recognized for excellence in its academic and experiential learning programs.

Mission Statement

CBGA prepares students for success in the global environment through emphasis on excellence in teaching, research, ethical leadership, and experiential learning.

Master Goals

Goal I:             Encourage and reward teaching excellence that impacts learning.
Goal II:            Encourage and reward research excellence that impacts business and society.
Goal III:           Develop graduates for career success with ethical and global mindset.
Goal IV:           Provide experiential learning opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.
Goal V:            Encourage, promote, and support regional economic development.

Core Values (4Es)

Excellence through high quality in advising, programs, small classes, and innovative teaching.
Engagement through students’ interactions with peers, faculty, staff, business community, and society.
Experiential learning through impactful projects, internships, and travel-studies.
Entrepreneurial spirit through opportunities to transform ideas to products and services.

Guiding Principles

The faculty, staff, and administrators of the College of Business and Global Affairs (CBGA) strive to be guided by the following principles in their communications, interactions, and collaboration with internal and external constituencies.

Accountability - We seek to create a culture of accountability wherein we take responsibility for the consequences of our decisions and behaviors with commitment to our ethical, legal, and moral obligations.
Respect - We seek to build a culture of mutual respect characterized by regards for personal dignity, positions, knowledge, and beliefs of our students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
Transparency - We strive to demonstrate transparency in our decision-making, record-keeping, and reporting with commitment to the highest standards of individual and institutional integrity.
Trust - We strive to create an environment in which trust, and personal integrity underpin all our actions and interactions.

Admission, Retention, and Academic Requirements

Business Major (Accounting, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Management, Marketing) Classifications and Business Undecided Classification of Students

To be admitted to the College of Business and Global Affairs as B.S.B.A. majors or as business undecided, students must:

be academically eligible;
have earned a minimum of 45 hours credit; and
completed ACCT 201 ; ECON 201 , ECON 202 ; and ENGL 112 with minimum grades of C in each course.

Exception: Students with less than 45 cumulative hours and an ACT composite score of 25 or above will automatically be admitted to the B.S.B.A. degree program in the major of their choice or business undecided.

Once admitted into the College of Business and Global Affairs as a B.S.B.A. major, students are also permitted to double major and to complete any one minor offered by The University of Tennessee at Martin except for the Minor in Business Administration.

Other Majors

Students not pursuing a major in the B.S.B.A. program may enroll in upper-division business courses provided the students meet the prerequisites of the course(s).

Students not pursuing a major in the B.S.B.A. program may be permitted to complete one minor from business fields. These currently include accounting, business administration, economics, finance, management, management information systems, marketing, business communication information systems, and sport business. However, students not pursuing a major in the B.S.B.A. program may earn no more than 29 semester hours of credit in courses from the following disciplines: accounting, business administration, business law, upper-division economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing, and sport management.

Students must achieve sophomore standing before enrolling in ACCT 201 and a grade of C or better in MATH 110 or MATH 140 or MATH 160 or MATH 185 or MATH 210 or MATH 251 At least a grade of C must be earned in prerequisite accounting and business law courses before taking the course that requires the prerequisite. For example, a student may not take ACCT 301 until the student has earned a grade of at least a C in ACCT 202 . Specific courses can have higher requirements for grades of prerequisite courses; student should consult the catalog course descriptions.

Majors and Minors

The College of Business and Global Affairs offers the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.). Students may major in accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management or marketing. Those majors and their concentrations are outlined on the following pages. The B.S. in Business Administration degree is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Accounting (4110)

Economics

Economics (4140)

General Business (4143)

International Business (4142)

Finance (4160)

Information Systems

Business Communication Information Systems (4631)

Management Information Systems (4632)

Management (4610)

Management Concentration (4611)

Sport Business Concentration (4618)

Supply Chain Management Concentration (4613)

Marketing (4620)

Professional Sales Concentration (4622)

Strategic Marketing Concentration (4621)

General Information

Academic Requirements

Students must achieve sophomore standing before enrolling in ACCT 201 . At least a grade of C must be earned in prerequisite accounting and business law courses before advancing to the following accounting or business law course.

Transfer Credit

If a student transfers credit in courses which are classified as upper-division courses at this university but were taken as lower-division credit or taken at a two-year institution, these courses may be validated by examination. Unsuccessful validation requires the student to take the upper-division course. A minimum of 50% of the business courses required for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration must be taken at UT Martin.

Required Achievement Examinations

Students graduating from the College of Business and Global Affairs are required to participate in comprehensive tests in their majors as specified by the university.