Business Minor
This minor is aimed at building core business skills.
The minor contains five courses consisting of three core courses and two electives.
Prerequisites
In order to be accepted into the Minor in Business, students must first satisfactorily complete:
a. One statistics course.
Acceptable courses:
| STT 211 Applied Statistics for the Social Sciences I | |
| STT 212 Applied Statistics for the Biological and Physical Sciences I | |
| STT 213 Elements of Probability and Statistics | |
| STT 216 Applied Statistics II | |
| ECO 230 Economic Statistics | |
| MTH/STT 203 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics | |
| PSY/CSP 211 Introduction to Statistical Methods in Psychology | |
| PSC 200 Applied Data Analysis | |
| PSC 201 Political Inquiry |
b. ECO 108 Principles of Economics (ECO 207, Intermediate Microeconomics, can substitute for ECO 108).
Core:
Three required courses.
| ACC 201 Principles of Accounting | |
| MKT 203 Marketing [prerequisites ACC 201, ECO 207 or equivalent] | |
| FIN 205 Financial Management (for students with ECO 207 and the first semester of calculus) [prerequisites ACC 201, ECO 207 or equivalent] OR FIN 204 (new course for students without ECO 207 or the first semester of calculus) |
Electives:
Two required courses.
| LAW 205 Business Law | |
| OMG 231 Operations and Information Systems Management | |
| ACC 221 Cost Accounting [prerequisite ACC 201] | |
| FIN 206 Investments [prerequisites FIN 205, MTH 210] | |
| MKT 213 Marketing Projects and Cases [prerequisite MKT 203] | |
| ECO 211 Money Credit & Banking [prerequisite ECO 207] | |
| ECO 217 Economics of Contracts, Organizations and Markets [prerequisite ECO 207, calculus] | |
| Internship (Independent Studies, either Simon or ECO 394) | |
| PHL 118 Business Ethics | |
| CSP/PSY 264 Industrial and Organizational Psychology | |
| MTH 208 Operations Research [prerequisite MTH 165] | |
| EAS201K/CAS201K Entrepreneurship and New Product Development |
Students must meet prerequisites and/or co-requisites for individual courses.
College rules on overlap apply (No more than two courses may overlap between the five required courses comprising this minor and a major, or between the five required courses comprising this minor and a separate minor.)
Students using the Business minor to fulfill the Social Science distribution area requirement must complete, in addition to ECO 108 or ECO 207, a minimum of two additional ECO or CSP courses from the list of electives.