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Major Program Requirements

Core courses
MARK 112 Marketing Management [3-0-0:3]
ACCT 101 Introduction to Accounting for Business Majors [4-0-0:4]
(1) ECON 110 Introductory Microeconomics [3-1-0:4]
or
ECON 111 Microeconomics [3-1-0:4]
or
ECON 191 Honors Microeconomics [3-1-0:4]
FINA 111 Financial Management [3:1-0:3]
ISMT 101 Introduction to Information Systems [3-0-1:3]
ISMT 111 Business Statistics [3-1-0:4]
ISMT 161 Operations Management [3-0-0:3]
MGTO 121 Organizational Behavior [3-1-0:3]


Required courses
MARK 222 Marketing Research [3-1-0:4]
MARK 242 Consumer Behavior [3-1-0:4]
MARK 321 Strategic Marketing [3-1-0:4]
(2) LANG 111 Chinese Business Communication I [0-3-0:3]
(3) MATH 005 Pre-Calculus [3-1-0:3]

or

MATH 006 Calculus and Linear Algebra [3-1-0:3]
MGTO 222 Business, Society and the Individual [1-0-0:1]


Elective courses
Elective types

Minimum
no. of courses

Minimum 
total credits

  MARK  Marketing Elective

12

General Education Requirements

Electives must be selected from amongst those general education courses that are listed on Course Description.
 
Elective types
Minimum
no. of courses
Minimum 
total credits
GEE(SCIE) Science General Education Elective 1 6
GEE(ENGG) Engineering General Education Elective 1
(4) GEE(H&SS) Humanities and Social Science General Education Elective 4 12

Required Courses in English Communication
LABU 101 Business Case Analyses [0-3-0:4]
LANG 201 Business Communication [0-3-0:3]

Other Requirement
HLTH 001 Healthy Life Style

[0 credit]

Notes:
(1) Students entering with AL Economics take ECON 111; however, those with grade B or above in HKAL Economics will take ECON 191.  All other students without AL Economics background, including those entering with AL Business and Economics, take ECON 110.
(2) Students cannot replace this course by LANG 014/015 for graduation purposes.  Students recruited from Mainland China will replace this course by a free elective.  For international students who are assessed as having inadequate Chinese background to take LANG 111, they will replace this course by LANG 113.
(3) Students should take one of MATH 005, MATH 006 or a free elective with respect to their prior mathematics background as follows:
  Prior mathematics background Course to be taken
  HKCEE Mathematics only; or grace C or below in HKCEE Additional Mathematics MATH 006
  Grade B or above in HKCEE Additional Mathematics; OR

a passing grade in AS Mathematics and Statistics, AL/AS Applied Mathematics or AL Pure Mathematics

Free Elective
  Qualification apart from the above - students in this group are required to take a Mathematics Placement Test MATH 005, MATH 006 or a free elective, subject to School approval on consideration of the placement test result.  Details are available at http://www.ust.hk/math-placement.
(4) Of these courses, at least one course in Humanities and one in Social Science are required.
(5) Students are required to take and pass this course in their first year of study.  Details of the course and its requirements are announced on the course website http://www.ab.ust.hk/sao/HLTH001 managed by the Student Affairs Office.

A minimum of 102 credits is required for the BBA program in Marketing. Students must take additional course(s) and/or elective(s) of higher-than-required credit value to meet this minimum total of 102 credits.
 

Recommended Pattern of Study for the Curriculum
 
1st year Fall C ACCT 101, ISMT 111, MGTO 121
R LABU 101, MATH 005/MATH 006/FREE
O HLTH 001 (Total: 14 credits)
Spring C MARK 112, ECON 110/111/191, FINA 111, ISMT 101, ISMT 161
R LABU 101
O HLTH 001 (Total: 20* credits)
2nd year Fall R LANG 111/LANG 113/FREE, MGTO 222
E MARK, GEE(ENGG), GEE(H&SS), FREE (Total: 18 credits)
Spring R MARK222, MARK 242, LANG 201
E GEE(SCIE), GEE(H&SS) (Total: 17 credits)
3rd year Fall E MARK, GEE(H&SS), three FREE (Total: 16-17 credits)
Spring R MARK 321
E GEE(H&SS), MARK, two FREE (Total: 17 credits)
* LABU 101 and MATH 005 are two-semester course. The course credits will be earned on completion of the course at the end of 1st year Spring.

C = core course; R = required course; E = elective course