Business Minor

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The minor in business is available to students in all schools and departments except the Marshall School of Business and the Leventhal School of Accounting. The minor provides the opportunity for students to gain understanding of key concepts and tools of business.

To enroll in the business minor, students must have completed a minimum of 32 units of college-level courses and attained a minimum overall GPA of 2.75.

Successful completion of the business minor requires a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in the courses applied to the minor.

Minor Course Requirements

Choose one of the following five options: (units 2-8)

BUAD 200x Economic Foundations for Business Units: 2 ^*
or
BUAD 201x Introduction to Business for Non-Majors Units: 4
or
BUAD 351 Economic Analysis for Business Decisions Units: 4 or
ECON 351x Microeconomics for Business Units: 4
and
BUAD 352 Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions Units: 4 or
ECON 352x Macroeconomics for Business Units: 4
or
ECON 203g Principles of Microeconomics Units: 4 and
ECON 205g Principles of Macroeconomics Units: 4
or
ECON 303 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Units: 4 and
ECON 305 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory Units: 4

Additional Required Course Work:

ACCT 410x Foundations of Accounting Units: 4 or
BUAD 280 Introduction to Financial Accounting Units: 3 or
BUAD 305 Abridged Core Concepts of Accounting Information Units: 4
BUAD 215x Foundations of Business Finance Units: 4 ^** or
BUAD 306 Business Finance Units: 4
BUAD 302 Communication Strategy in Business Units: 4
BUAD 304 Organizational Behavior and Leadership Units: 4
BUAD 307 Marketing Fundamentals Units: 4 or
MKT 385x Marketing of Creative Disruption and Innovation Units: 4
BUAD 315x Basics of Project and Operations Management for Non-Majors Units: 2 or
BUAD 311 Operations Management Units: 4

Notes:

^*Students who have earned scores of 4 or 5 on both the AP Microeconomics and the AP Macroeconomics exams will be waived out of the first requirement (BUAD 200 , BUAD 201 , 351/352 or ECON).

^**ACCT 410 or BUAD 280 or BUAD 285a or BUAD 305 must be taken before BUAD 215 .

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