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DEDMAN COLLEGE
MARKETS AND CULTURE

Professor Linda B. Stearns, Director

The B.A. in Markets and Culture provides students the opportunity to learn about the world's market places from an interdisciplinary study in the social sciences and the humanities. Students will explore the economic principles of markets, the values and history of commerce, and the motives and myths that move people. By choosing from courses in a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, history, psychology, literature, and foreign languages, students will gain an understanding of the multiple institutions and cultures that shape the world's markets.

Requirements for the B.A. Degree. The Markets and Culture major requires 36 total hours, consisting of 24 hours of core classes and 12 hours of electives. The core classes provide the student with the appropriate tools to understand the social basis of economic behavior as well as basic business concepts and practices.

A cocurricular requirement for a degree in Markets and Culture is one year of college-level study of a foreign language or equivalent. Majors are strongly encouraged to take advantage of opportunities for study abroad and internships to broaden their classroom experience.

Core Courses

SOCI 2377 Markets and Culture

SOCI 3377 Organizations and Their Environments

SOCI 4377 Contemporary Markets and Culture

ECO 3355 Money and Banking Prerequisites: ECO 1311 and ECO 1312

ACCT 2310 Accounting for Markets and Culture (ACCT 2311 Fundamentals of Accounting I may substitute)

ENGL 2302 Business Writing: Effective Communication at the Workplace

STAT 2301 Statistics for Modern Business Decisions (STAT 2331 Introduction to Statistical Methods or ITOM 2305 Managerial Statistics may substitute)

CSE 2337 Introduction to Database Design and SQL (ITOM 2308 Information Systems for Management may substitute) Prerequisite: Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel packages and both creating and editing files in a Windows environment. Recommended: EMIS 1307

Elective Courses

(Twelve advanced hours required. Courses must be selected from at least three departments with no more than 6 hours in any one area)

ADV 3354 International Advertising (SMU-in-London)

ANTH 3327 Culture Change and Globalization

ANTH 3336 Gender and Globalization

ANTH 3344 Cultural Aspects of Business

ANTH 3346 Culture and Diversity in American Life

ANTH 3350 Good Eats and Forbidden Flesh: Culture, Food, and the Global Grocery Market

ANTH 4303 Political Economy of Health Prerequisites: Advanced standing and ANTH 2301 or permission of instructor for non-anthropology majors.

ANTH 4384 Global Issues and Development: An Overview Prerequisites: Advanced standing and ANTH 2301 or permission of instructor for non-anthropology majors).

BA 3000 European Business Environment: The EU (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

BA 3301 Economies in Transition: Doing Business with Russia and Eastern Europe (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

BA 3300 Business in Europe (SMU-in-Paris)

BA 3300 Special Topics: Japanese Business (SMU-in-Japan)

BA 3300 Management and Ethics in a Cross-Cultural Context (SMU-in-Spain)

BA 4315 EU Seminar (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

CCPA 3321 International Public Relations (SMU-in-London)

CHIN 3311 Advance Chinese Prerequisites: CHIN 1401, 1402, 2401, and 2402

CHIN 3312 Advance Chinese Prerequisite: CHIN 3311

CHIN 3311-12 Advance Chinese (SMU-in-Beijing)

CHIN 4411 China in the 1990s (SMU-in-Beijing)

CHIN 4412 Chinese Literature and Culture (SMU-in-Beijing)

ECO 3301 Price Theory (Intermediate Microeconomics) Prerequisites: ECO 1311 and 1312

ECO 3321 International Economic Policy Prerequisites: ECO 1311 and 1312

ECO 4357 International Trade (SMU-in-Japan)

FINA 4329 International Finance in a European Context (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

FREN 3455 Advanced French I Prerequisite: FREN 2401

FREN 3356 Advanced French II Prerequisites: FREN 3101 and FREN 3455

FREN 4391 Commercial French for International Trade Prerequisites: FREN 3455 and FREN 3356

FL 3306 The Heart of Aztlán: Chicano Literature of the Southwest

FL 3320 Postwar Japanese Culture and Society (SMU-in-Japan)

GERM 3311 Talking and Writing about Modern Germany Prerequisite: GERM 2312

GERM 3313 German Today: People, Culture, Society Prerequisite: GERM 3311

GERM 3313 German Today: People, Culture, Society (SMU-in-Germany)

GERM 3350 Business German Prerequisite: GERM 3311 or permission of instructor

HIST 3327 Economic History of the United States

HIST 3328 Economic History of Europe

HIST 3343 Twentieth-Century European History (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

HIST 3349 Images of Power (SMU-in-Paris)

HIST 3364 Consumer Culture in the United States, 1770-1990

HIST 3365 Problems in European History: The Making of Modern Europe (SMU-in-Spain)

HIST 3380 Problems in Ibero-American History: Latin American History (SMU-in-Spain)

HIST 3390 The Modern Middle East: From the Ottoman Empire to OPEC

HIST 3395 Problems in Asian History (SMU-in-Japan)

HIST 4365 Australian Society (SMU-in-Australia)

HIST 4381 History of Spain, 1469 to Present

JAPN 3311 Advanced Japanese

JAPN 3312 Advance Japanese Prerequisite: C- or better in JAPN 3311 or permission of area chair

JAPN 3501 Japanese Level 2 (SMU-in-Japan)

JAPN 4381 Readings in Japanese Culture and Business Prerequisite: JAPN 3312 or permission of area chair

JAPN 4501 Japanese Level 3 (SMU-in-Japan)

MNO 3300 Environmental Business Strategy (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

MNO 3301 Global Business Strategy (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

PLSC 3340 Western European Politics

PLSC 3341 Politics of Participation and Representation in Western Democracies

PLSC 3346 Governments and Politics of Japan

PLSC 3346 Government and Politics in Japan (SMU-in-Japan)

PLSC 3348 Governments and Politics of Latin America

PLSC 3349 Politics of Major Latin American Countries

PLSC 3358 Government and Politics of Russia

PLSC 3359 From Communism to Democracy

PLSC 3381 Current Issues in International Politics (SMU-in-Oxford)

PLSC 3389 International Political Economy

PLSC 3390 Negotiating International Trade

PLSC 4340 Political History of Contemporary Spain (SMU-in-Spain)

PLSC 4340 Australian Government (SMU-in-Australia)

PLSC 4340 Danish Politics and Society (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

PLSC 4353 Government and Politics of East Asia

PLSC 4355 Comparative Political Economy of Industrialized Democracies

PLSC 4356 Latin American Political Economy

PLSC 4358 Soviet Politics: Revolution to Revolution

PLSC 4380 Historical and Contemporary Issues of the European Construction (SMU-in-Paris)

PLSC 4391 NAFTA and Free Trade in the Americas

PLSC 5341 Western European Politics: The European Union (SMU-in-Copenhagen)

PSYC 3341 Social Psychology Prerequisite: PSYC 1300 or permission of instructor

PSYC 5343 Organizational Psychology Recommended: PSYC 1300

SOCI 3300 Contemporary Urban Problems: Japanese Society (SMU-in-Japan)

SOCI 3305 Race and Ethnicity in the United States

SOCI 3310 Wealth, Status, and Power

SOCI 3340 Global Society

SOCI 3371 Changing Sex Roles

SOCI 3372 Chicanos in the Southwest

SOCI 4379 Markets and Culture Internship

SOCI 4360 Social Effects of Mass Media

SOCI 5321 Population Problems

SOCI 5331 Human Behavior in Groups

SOCI 5375 Complex Organizations

SPAN 3311 Conversation and Composition Prerequisite: SPAN 2401 or equivalent

SPAN 3312 Conversation and Composition: Mexican Culture Prerequisite: SPAN 2401 or equivalent

SPAN 3313 Conversation and Composition: Latin American Culture Prerequisite: SPAN 2401 or equivalent

SPAN 3355 Advanced Conversation (SMU-in-Xalapa, Mexico) (SMU-in-Spain)

SPAN 3358 Advanced Grammar (SMU-in-Xalapa, Mexico) (SMU-in-Spain)

SPAN 3373 Spanish Civilization (SMU-in-Spain)

SPAN 3374 Spanish American Civilization (SMU-in-Xalapa, Mexico)

SPAN 4391 Commercial Spanish for International Trade Prerequisites: SPAN 3355 and SPAN 3358, or permission of the instructor

SPAN 4391 Commercial Spanish for International Trade (SMU-in Xalapa, Mexico)

SPAN 4395 Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SMU-in-Spain)