The Business concentration offers a broad-based business management education with required courses that include finance, international business, and marketing. Before entering the concentration, students must have completed micro- and macroeconomics, financial and management accounting, and statistics. The Information Technology concentration is a management-oriented program with courses drawn from UVa s Engineering and Commerce Schools. Required courses include business software development, database management and data communications. The Social Sciences concentration teaches students how to conduct research and solve problems in the social science disciplines.
Students take at least two courses in each of three disciplines and two interdisciplinary courses.
The Individualized concentration allows students to work with a faculty advisor to design a curriculum that draws upon other BIS offerings. Students may also use this option to prepare for teacher licensure by developing an education program that combines general education and BIS course work with professional courses in the Curry School of Education. Students can consult a librarian who serves the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and BIS staff are always available to answer questions about the program and link students to University and community resources. BIS students have access to computer facilities, an e-mail account, Internet access and technical support, and the University library system. Sixty transferable semester credit hours of preparatory course work are required to enter the BIS program.