International Business Certificate

Program Overview

It emphasizes international business practices, policies, and cultural nuances, preparing students to navigate diverse markets and succeed in a globalized economy. The program offers highly ranked courses and industry insights through the G. Brint Ryan College of Business, equipping students with the knowledge and expertise to excel in international business careers.

Program Outline

It is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct business in a global marketplace.

Other:

• The program is offered through the G. Brint Ryan College of Business, which is ranked 9th in Texas and 61st in the South by Best-Business-Colleges.com.
• The college's management program is ranked 6th among public universities in the Southwest and 38th among public universities in the nation by Texas A&M/University of Georgia Rankings of Management Department Research Productivity.
• The program highlights the college's achievements, including its graduates becoming CEOs or presidents of organizations, students earning top spots in business competitions, and the Distinguished Speaker Series that provides opportunities to learn from prominent business leaders.

International Business Certificate Courses You Could Take:

• Topics in International Business Practices and Policies (3 hrs): This course analyzes issues in accounting, marketing, management, finance, the legal environment, and information systems between international companies and U.S. companies.
It introduces students to business practices and the role of culture in international business transactions.
• International Finance (3 hrs): This course covers international and regional financial institutions and arrangements, balance of payments, theory, adjustments, and their impact on world trade.
It explores the role of commercial and central banks in financing international flows, financing exports and imports, foreign exchange instruments and markets, and the determination of exchange rates.
• Global Alliances and International Supply Chain Management (3 hrs): This course focuses on supply chain and alliance strategy in multinational firms.
It examines materials management, international sourcing and distribution, importing/exporting procedures, and international carrier management and operations.
• International Management Perspectives: This course provides a comprehensive framework for studying the management of multinational operations in cross-cultural environments.
It emphasizes the decisions managers must make, including strategic planning, organization, human resources, operations management, entrepreneurship, and ethics.
• Global Marketing Issues and Practice: This course examines marketing decision-making in an international context.
It emphasizes issues and concepts relevant to firms competing in the global marketplace, including problems and opportunities arising from economic, legal/political, sociocultural, geographic, and technological environments. Specific topics include multinational distribution, international product adaptation, and cross-cultural consumer behavior. The course requires a project that emphasizes using and refining secondary data collection skills. Students may be required to work in a group context.
• International Business Law (3 hrs): This course examines selected aspects of the international legal environment affecting transnational commerce.
It considers relevant U.S. constitutional, treaty, and statutory provisions, international conventions and agreements, sovereign immunity and act of state doctrines, and nationalization and expropriation.