This is not the final word in electives.* If you’re interested in a course not listed below, ask your DS faculty advisor about it, and the advisor will consider it, provided the course is analytical in nature. DS majors should take at least two of their electives from the same department. Be sure to check course prerequisites.
Elective Courses Within the Lam Family College of Business
ACCOUNTING (#)
ACCT 303: Accounting for Financial Analysis
ACCT 305: Cost Accounting
ACCT 506: Auditing
ACCT 507: Information Systems Auditing
ACCT 508: Federal Tax Accounting I
ECONOMICS
ECON 312: Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 500: Money and Banking
ECON 505: Public Economics
ECON 616: Experimental Economics and Game Theory
FINANCE (#)
FIN 351: Financial Management
FIN 353: Financial Institutions
FIN 355: Investments
FIN 365: Real Estate Principles
FIN 536: International Finance
FIN 653: Seminar in Bank Management
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
ISYS 350: Building Business Applications
ISYS 463: Information Systems Analysis and Design
ISYS 464: Managing Enterprise Data
ISYS 475: Building Web Applications …
ISYS 512: Business Application Design and Development
ISYS 569: Info. Systems for Business Process Mgmt.
ISYS 650: Business Intelligence
ISYS 663: Information Technology Project Mgmt.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
IBUS 430: Import-Export Management
IBUS 590: International Environmental Analysis
IBUS 690: Global Strategic Management
MANAGEMENT
MGMT 354: Starting a Small Business
BUS 450: Greening of Business
MGMT 670: Organization Design & Change
MARKETING (#)
MKTG 436: Retail Management
MKTG 441: Business to Business Marketing
MKTG 469: Digital Marketing
MKTG 632: Marketing Research
MKTG 660: Marketing Analytics
Elective Courses Outside the Lam Family College of Business
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSC 210: Introduction to Computer Programming; Prereq: Math 109
CSC 211: Introduction to Software Lab (1 unit)
CSC 309: Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers; Prereq: Math 226
CSC 413: Software Development
DESIGN AND INDUSTRY
DAI 460: Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing Systems
DAI 523: Information Design I: Data Visualization
ENGLISH
ENG 620: Introduction to Computational Linguistics
ENG 680: Applied Computational Linguistics
MATHEMATICS
MATH 338: Introduction to SAS; Prereq: MATH 124 or equivalent
MATH 430: Mathematics of Optimization; Prereq: MATH 325
MATH 442: Probability Models; Prereq: MATH 340 with grade of C or better
MATH 449: Categorical Data Analysis; Prereq: MATH 340 with grade of C or better, or consent of instructor
MATH 490: Mathematics Seminar; Prereq: Any introductory statistics course with grade of C or better; Course contents vary by semester; check its content in the specific semester you plan to take it.
NOTES:
* Revised January 13, 2020
(#) These departments generally limit their courses to majors.