Welcome to USF’s School of Management! I’m Pearl, a Marketing student and I’m here to tell you about this major.

Marketing is an exciting major where you will gain many new skills, including how to launch a new product, as well as how to manage its success over time, across markets, and around the world.

As a marketing major, you will take courses such as Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research and International Marketing.

Then you will have the opportunity to broaden your understanding of marketing with specific courses that interest you like Digital Marketing and Brand Strategy, or Marketing Analytics and Services Marketing, or courses such as Entertainment Marketing and Marketing for Social Change.

Your learning goes beyond the classroom. You can join the Marketing Club, where I’m a current member. You might also want to study abroad, and complete a professional internship.

I encourage you to get to know your professors who can be valuable resources, both in and out of the classroom.

USF’s Marketing professors have experience as advisors, as authors of books, research, and trade articles, and as executives in successful corporations.
Now, here’s some important information to help guide you through the online registration process, so you can select your first semester’s courses.

Hi! I’m Homa, a USF business student, and I’m going to help you with selecting your first semester’s classes!

USF students typically register for 16 to 18 credits every semester to stay on track for graduation.

That’s four, 4-credit courses and perhaps a 1 or 2 credit elective course. You’ll need to take at least 16 credits each of your 8 semesters in order to graduate in 4 years with 128 credits.

The first class to add to your schedule is the Rhetoric and Composition course that you placed into.

Rhetoric and Composition is a University Core requirement and a prerequisite for your business classes. It is important for business majors to complete the Core A2 requirement as soon as possible.

If you are a transfer student and you have completed and passed a composition course with a grade of D- or better, you should register for Rhetoric and Composition 310.

For your next course, you should register for either: Economics 111 OR Economics 112.

Both courses are part of the Business Core curriculum and taking either course will fulfill your University Core E social science requirement. We recommend that you take them consecutively, and not at the same time!


Next, you can register for MATH 106, which fulfills your University Core B1 Math requirement and is a business core requirement.

For your next course, you can enroll in another University Core course that fulfills one of your open required areas such as history, philosophy, theology, ethics and more.
 
One option you have is to enroll in a First Year Seminar, or, for transfers, a Transfer Year Seminar, that fulfills a University Core area.

These seminars have especially small class sizes, are interactive, offer excursions, and are a great way to make new friends.

Once you’ve chosen your 16 credits, you may want to add a 1 or 2 credit course.

There’s a wide variety of fun and interesting choices, but freshman business majors are required to take Business 100 Launch into Business during either their first or second semester for an overview of USF’s business program. 

In this 2-credit course, you will learn many foundational business concepts as well as gain skills in workplace professionalism.

Once you have selected your courses for the semester, your schedule should look something like this:

(Freshman Student Sample Schedule displayed)
Freshman Student Sample Schedule
RHET XXX - Rhetoric & Composition course that you place into (4-6 credits)
ECON 112 - Principles of Macroeconomics (4 credits)
MATH 106 - Business Statistics (4 credits)
University Core course (4 credits)
BUS 100 - Launch into Business (2-credit optional course)

Or, for transfers, something like this:

(Freshman Student Sample Schedule displayed)
Freshman Student Sample Schedule
RHET XXX - Rhetoric & Composition course that you place into (4-6 credits)
ECON 112 - Principles of Macroeconomics (4 credits)
MATH 106 - Business Statistics (4 credits)
University Core course (4 credits)
BUS 100 - Launch into Business (2-credit optional course)

If you are a transfer student, don’t forget to review your degree evaluation to determine which courses you’ve already completed.

If you need help, please contact us (email displayed: somundergrad@usfca.edu).


From all of us at the School of Management… Welcome to USF!