DIVISION OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS Talmage Y. De Lange, Acting Chairman The Division of Business and Economics aims to provide men and women with the opportunity to make a life and a living, to train them to enter private business, to prepare them for employment with federal and state government agencies, to assist them to become teachers, to help them acquire skills required in the many phases of economic and business research, and to develop in them an understanding of our economy from the point of view of the social sciences. At present, the Division includes the Departments of Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, and Secretarial Training. The Division offers baccalaureate programs in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, and Secretarial Training, and a secondary teaching major in Business Education. Baccalaureate Degree RequirementsCandidates for the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree must complete at least 183 hours of work approved by the head of the Division and its faculty. In addition to completing the General Education Requirements of the College, at least 90 of the 183 hours must be completed in the Division of Business and Economics. At least 60 of the 183 hours must be upper division courses those with numbers 100 or abovewhich are not open to Freshmen and Sophomores without approval of the head of the department offering the course, except where Division requirements provide otherwise. Candidates for the B.A. degree must have the equivalent of 24 credit hours of foreign language during high school and/ or college. Required CoursesThe following courses are required, with some exceptions for business education majors, of all students majoring in the Division in order that they may have a fundamental background in courses basic to successful professional employment. Many of these courses provide training helpful in the successful completion of additional work. They are listed, as a suggestion, according to the years in which they should be taken: 81