The George Washington University
School of Business: Undergraduate Programs

Non-Business Electives

Students in the BBA program have six non-business electives that are usually taken during students‘ sophomore, junior, and senior years. Students ordinarily fulfill non-business electives by taking 3-credit courses offered by the departments listed below. Students may not take classes offered by the Departments of Accountancy, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, International Business, Information Systems Technology Management, Mathematics, Management Science, Marketing, Strategic Management & Public Policy, Statistics, or Sport, Event and Hospitality Management to fulfill these requirements. Students may take up to nine credit hours of Computer Science courses. In addition, SPBM students may not use EDUC 180: Computer Literacy to fulfill any requirement within GWSB as it repeats much of the content of BADM 64: Management Information Systems Technology.

BBA students have three lower-level non-business electives and four upper-level non-business electives. The lower-level electives are usually taken in the sophomore year and may be fulfilled by courses numbered below 100; however, students may also fulfill these requirements with courses numbered 100-199 if they have the appropriate prerequisites. In the junior and senior year, all of the non-business electives must be numbered 100-199. Exceptions are made for a few courses, such as language courses numbered three and above, honors courses, applied science courses, Physics courses, and science for science majors courses. Please check with The Advising Center in Duquès 456 before registering for non-business electives to verify that they will fulfill a requirement. We can be reached by phone at 202- 994-7027 or by e-mail at gwsbadv@gwu.edu.

Students are encouraged to pursue their interests in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences with their non-business electives. Many students successfully use their non-business electives to obtain a Secondary Field in a school outside of GWSB or to gain fluency in a language. All GWSB students are encouraged to plan ahead; some requirements in the junior and senior years (such as certain Field Tools Elective) have prerequisites which must be used as lower-level non-business electives if they are to count towards the credits required for graduation.

Student with more than 60 credit hours and a minimum GPA of 2.5 may take one non-business elective PASS/NO PASS each semester. Students must receive the professor’s permission and signature on a Registration Transaction Form to do so; they should also discuss what constitutes a passing grade. The deadline for changing a course’s grading status is the last day to drop classes (the end of the eighth week of classes). This date will be posted outside The Advising Center each semester. No exceptions will be made after this date.

Department

  • American Studies (AMST)
  • Anthropology (ANTH)
  • Applied Science (APSC)
  • Biological Sciences (BISC)
  • Chemistry (CHEM)
  • Classical Languages and Literatures: Arabic (ARAB)/ Greek (GREK)/ Hebrew (HEBR)/ Latin (LATN)/ Yiddish (YDSH)
  • Classical Studies (CLAS)
  • Communication (COMM)
  • Counseling (CNSC)
  • East Asian Languages and Literatures: Chinese (CHIN)/ Japanese (JAPN)/ Korean (KOR)/ Vietnamese (VIET)
  • Educational Leadership (EDUC) EXCEPT EDUC 180
  • English (ENGL)
  • English for Academic Purposes (EAP) International Students Only
  • Exercise Science (EXSC)
  • Film Studies (FILM)
  • Fine Arts and Art History: Fine Arts (FA)/ Art History (AH)
  • Forensic Sciences (FORS)
  • Geography (GEOG)
  • Geology (GEOL)
  • German and Slavic Languages and Literatures: German (GER)/ Russian (SLAV)
  • Health Sciences (HSCI)
  • History (HIST)
  • Humanities (HMN)
  • Interdisciplinary Courses (IDIS)
  • International Affairs (IAFF)
  • Linguistics (LING)
  • Media and Public Affairs (SMPA)
  • Music (MUS)
  • Peace Studies (PSTD)
  • Philosophy (PHIL)
  • Physics: Astronomy (ASTR)/ Physics (PHYS)
  • Political Science (PSC)
  • Psychology (PSYC)
  • Public Administration (PAD)
  • Public Health (PUBH)
  • Religion (REL)
  • Romance Languages and Literatures: French (FREN)/ Italian (ITAL)/ Portuguese (PORT)/ Spanish (SPAN)
  • Service-Learning Program (SLP)
  • Sociology Human Services (SOC)
  • Speech and Hearing (SPHR)
  • Teaching Preparation and Special Education (TRED)
  • Theatre and Dance (TRDA)
  • University Professors - 700 series
  • Women’s Leadership Program (WLP)
  • Women’s Studies (WSTU)

For course listings, see the Undergraduate Bulletin.