Option 1 – GEM Professional Program
The GEM Professional Program is the most powerful and comprehensive blend of technical and business skills available at the undergraduate and graduate level. Students in this program obtain a BBA in Finance with a GEM specialization. For those who choose to do so, they may continue for the MS in Finance with a GEM specialization by obtaining a graduate energy finance certificate in Energy Risk Management or Energy Accounting and Finance or Economics of the Energy Value Chain, or Energy Investment Analysis.
Meant to begin at the freshman year and carry through graduation, the GEM Professional Program requires a higher level math and science core than the traditional BBA in Finance. In addition to the required business core course work, GEM PP students take all their advanced-elective courses in energy business. Students in the program ideally are also members of the Bauer Business Honors Program and the UH Honors College.
Having completed the 4-year undergraduate curriculum students may choose to continue for an additional year in graduate coursework in Energy Finance. Graduates of the GEM Professional Program waive 6 hours of graduate credit for their completed undergraduate coursework – In other words, a 36 hour MS in Finance can be completed with only 30 additional hours (10 classes)! The combination of the undergraduate GEM program and the graduate energy finance certificate ultimately provides these graduates with the most powerful knowledge base in Energy Finance available from any university today!
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Undergraduate Coursework (BBA in FInance)
UH CORE COURSES (30 HRS)
COMMUNICATION
ENGL
1303 (Honors: ENGL 1370H; non-native: ENGL1309)
ENGL 1304 (Honors: ENGL 2361H; non-native: ENGL1310)
US HISTORY
HIST 1376 (or 1377) (The United States
to 1877)
HIST 1379 (or 1378) (The United States since
1877)
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
POLS 1336 (US & Texas Constitutions & Politics)
POLS 1337 (US Government: Congress, President & Courts)
SOCIAL SCIENCE
PSYC 1300 or SOC 1300 required
for business majors
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHYS 1321* plus 6 hrs from following
options:
option 1**: CHEM 1331, CHEM 1332
option 2***: CHEM 1301, GEOL 1330/PHYS 3378
* The prerequisite for PHYS 1321 is credit for
or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1432.
** CHEM 1331-1332 require lab courses CHEM 1111-1112,
adding 2 additional hours to the degree.
*** The prerequisite for CHEM 1301 and GEOL 1330
is credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH
1310. The prerequisite for PHYS
3378/GEOL 3378 is MATH 1310 and CHEM 1301 or 1331
or GEOL 1330 or 1340 or PHYS 1301 or 1321.
PRE-BUSINESS COURSES (require a grade
of “C” or
higher) (31 HRS)
MATH
1431* Calculus
1
MATH 1432 Calculus 2
MATH 2431 Linear Algebra
MATH 2433 Calculus 3
ACCT 2331 Financial Accounting
ACCT 2332 Managerial Accounting
DISC 2373 Intro to Computers and MIS
ECON 3332** Intermediate Micro-Economics
ECON 3334 Intermediate Macro-Economics
* Students not prepared to enroll in MATH 1431
will be required to complete MATH 1310 and MATH
1330, depending on the area of deficiency prior
to enrolling in MATH 1431.
** Students may waive ECON 2304 and 2305 as prerequisites
for ECON 3332 and 3334 with consent of the instructor.
Students who do not take either ECON 3332 or
3334 are required to take an additional Social
Science-Writing Intensive course unless waived
due to transfer work. Consult an advisor for
information.
Requirements
to File a Degree Plan: |
• Be
a pre-business major (a GPA of 2.75 on last
60 hours, including transfer work)
• Have a grade point average of 2.5 or higher on a minimum of 12 hours
at UH
• Complete the UH CORE courses listed on side one under 1. above with
a passing grade
• Complete each Pre-Business course listed on side one under 2. with a
grade of “C” or higher
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| Students
who become PRE BUS FALL 2005 or later must
complete the following additional requirements
to file a degree plan: |
• Complete Modules I, II, & III
of the non-credit component of the Bauer Experience.
• Take the Business Writing Evaluation (BWE).
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ADDITIONAL REQUIRED & UH CORE COURSES
(required for the degree but not to file a degree
plan) (6 HRS)
HUMANITIES
(see
approved list; for Honors: HON 2301H)
VISUAL PERFORMING ARTS
(see UH approved core
list)
ADVANCED-LEVEL BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS* (30
HRS)
DISC 3301** Service and Manufacturing
Operations
FINA 3332 Principles of
Financial Managemento
DISC 3331 Statistical
Analysis for Business Applications
MANA 3335 Introduction
to Organizational Behavior and Management
MARK 3336 Elements of
Marketing Administration
MARK 3337/COMM 3356*** Professional
Selling/Bus & Prof Speaking
GENB 4350 Business Law
and Ethics
*INTB 3350 (formerly MANA 3350) is not required
of GEM-PP students due to more specific coverage
of International Business in other required coursework.
**Students in the Bauer Business Honors Program
are required to take the Honors section of DISC
3301 to meet the Honors Colloquium requirement.
***COMM 3356 requires completion of 60 hours; consult
advisor for policy on substitution of speech course
transferred from another school
GLOBAL STUDIES SEQUENCE
INTB 3351 History of Globalization
INTB 3352 Politics of Globalization
INTB 3353 Economics of Globalization
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION (25-26
HRS)
FINA 4320 (formerly 4366)
Investment Management
FINA 4330 (formerly 4332)
Corporate FInance
FINA 4397 Economics
of Energy
FINA 4350 Options and
Futures
FINA 4360 International
Finance
FINA 4397 Futures and
Swaps
ACCT 3367 Intermediate
Accounting
DISC 4397 Energy Supply
Chain
GENERAL ELECTIVE* (if
required to meet the 123 hour minimum)
* A minimum of 123 hours is required for the
BBA.
See the University of Houston course catalog for
all relevant polices pertaining to the degree plans
and minors
Graduate Coursework (MS in Finance)
Foundation Courses
ACCT 6331 - Financial Accounting
DISC 6360 – Statistical
Methods for Business
FINA 6335 – Managerial
Finance
Advanced Courses – Any
two of:
FINA 7320 – Investments
(7366)
FINA 7330 – Financial
Management (7336)
FINA 7340 – Financial
Markets & Institutions (7376)
FINA 7350 – Financial
Engineering & Derivatives (7338)
Elective Courses (6 Course ERM certificate)
Energy Trading concentration (required)
FINA 7397 – FINANCIAL
ENGINEERING
FINA 7397 - GAS AND POWER
MARKETS
FINA 7397 – Energy Trading
And either of
Energy Investment Analysis
FINA 7397 – Adv. Problems
in the Evaluation of Energy Projects
FINA 7397 – Strategy
of Project Financing
FINA 7397 – Real Options
Or
Energy Industry Economics
GENB 7397 – Petrochemical
and Refining Economics
GENB 7397 – Upstream
Oil & Gas Economics
GENB 7397 – Power Industry
Economics
Note: Students may petition
the Director of the MS in Finance Program to
substitute the course listed below for credit.
The Program Director is the final authority in
regard to course substation.
FINA 7341(7337) - Commercial
Banking
FINA/INTB 7360 (7386) - Int’l
Finance
FINA 7380 (7391) - Real Estate
Finance
FINA 7368 - Cases in Finance
FINA 7321 - Fixed Income Security
Analysis
FINA 8338 - Seminar in Financial
Management
See the University of Houston course catalog for
all relevant polices pertaining to the degree plans
and minors.
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