Outside Elective Courses for Students Majoring or Minoring in Decision Sciences

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.