BBA concentration in FinTech

Unlike other BBA majors including the Finance Major Corporate Finance Concentration, students in the Finance Major FinTech Concentration are cannot take to fulfill the calculus requirement.  They need to take a calculus course from the following choices: //.  Students in the Finance FinTech concentration need a more in-depth background in calculus to understand programing (MATH 111), machine learning (), and advanced econometrics ( and ), all of which are part of the FinTech concentration.

Admissions to BBA Finance: Fintech

1. Admission requires a GPA of 3.0 (subject to revision) in the first four courses listed below.
2. The minimum GPA is 2.7 for courses taken for the major in finance at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ.
3. No Individual Grade below C- is accepted.
4. No more than 21 credits can be transferred into the program from other colleges.

Requirements:

1. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Accounting I
2. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Accounting II
3. : Introduction to Macroeconomics
4. Introduction to Microeconomics
5. Calculus/Differentiation or : Calculus/Differentiation & Integration
6. ECON 249: Statistics as Applied to Economics and Business (1 Pre-requisite: /) or : Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics
7. Introduction to Econometrics (2 Pre-requisites: ECON 249/;
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9. Business Law I
10. Corporate Finance
11. Economics of Distribution and Marketing (1 Pre-requisite: )
12. Business Economics
13. Macroeconomic Analysis (Pre-req.: or and or ) or ECON 215 Money and Banking (Prereq.: or Ìý²¹²Ô»å or )
14. Spread Sheet Programing
15. Introduction to Business Writing
16. /RM711: Applied Financial Analysis with VBA Programming (1 Pre-requisite: ; 1 Pro/Co-requisite: )
17. : Foundations of FinTeth (2 Pre-requisites: ; )
18. : Intermediate Finance (3 Pre-requisites: ; BUS 160W; ECON 249/)
19. Economics of CryptoAssets (1 Pre-requisite: OR )
20. Blockchain and Money (1 Pre-requisite: )
21. : Machine Learning in Business (1 Pre-requisite: /)
22. /: Introduction to Python for Financial Applications (1 pre/co-requisite: ) or : Advanced Econometrics (1 pre-requisite: ) or /RM 708: Financial Econometrics (2 pre-requisites: ; ECON 249/)

New Class: (3hr; 3 cr.)

Course Description:

Understand exactly what a blockchain is, why it matters for business activities with emphasis on the financial sector.  Blockchain’s role as a decentralized distributed ledger is analyzed through use cases in technology, business, and enterprise products and institutions.  Topics include the governance and regulatory issues surrounding blockchain’s applications.