Business Academic Minor Requirements
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Business Minor
This minor is not open to students pursuing other college business options (e.g., foreign language/business option, music/business option, forest products/business option) or to students pursuing a major in the College of Business and Economics.
Students in the business minor must achieve at least a 2.35 GPA in statistics, economics, and accounting courses before enrolling in upper-division CBE courses.
Introduction to Financial Accounting and |
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Introduction to Managerial Accounting (6 cr) |
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Prin of Economics or |
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Foundations of Econ Analysis (3-4 cr) |
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Prin of Statistics or |
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Statistical Inference and Decision Analysis or |
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Probability and Statistics (3-4 cr) |
Five of the following courses (or Bus 340-345) (15 cr)
Introduction to Business Enterprises (3 cr) |
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Financial Management (3 cr) |
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Introduction to Management (3 cr) |
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Marketing (3 cr) |
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Management Information Systems or |
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Introduction to Electronic Commerce (3 cr) |
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Introduction to Operations Management (3 cr) |
Economics Minor
This academic minor (with its five different areas) is offered through the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences.
Prin of Econ or |
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Foundations of Econ Analysis (4-6 cr) |
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Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis (3 cr) |
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Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis (3 cr) |
And one of the following areas (with the permission of the student's advisor, the student may petition to have one substitute course for one of the following specific courses in the first four areas):
Forecasting
Money and Banking (3 cr) |
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Quantitative Economics and Forecasting (3 cr) |
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Econometrics (3 cr) |
Public Policy
Public Finance (3 cr) |
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Market Structure and Governmental Policy (3 cr) |
Development
International Economics (3 cr) |
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International Development Economics (3 cr) |
Economic Resources
Environmental Economics (3 cr) |
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Labor Economics (3 cr) |
Course approved by student's advisor (3 cr)
General Economics
Upper-division economics courses approved by student's advisor and dept chair (9 cr)
International Business Minor
Note: This minor is limited to students majoring in the College of Business and Economics.
Business Operating Decisions (3 cr) |
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International Finance (3 cr) |
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International Marketing (3 cr) |
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International Economics (3 cr) |
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International Politics (3 cr) |
One of the following courses or another approved elective (3 cr):
Marketing Structure and Governmental Policy (3 cr) |
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International Development Economics (3 cr) |
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The European Union (3 cr) |
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International Organizations and International Law (3 cr) |
Foreign language mastery is required equivalent to completion of the introductory and intermediate courses, and an upper-division course in a language. A semester of study and/or internship in another country is recommended. CBE students currently have direct access to academic programs at Växjö University (Sweden), Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Chambéry (France), Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Griffith University (Australia), Fachhochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (Germany), University of Zaragoza (Spain), Haagse Hogeschool (The Netherlands), the Southern Denmark Business School, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (United Kingdom). CBE students also have access to programs in Australia, Chile, France, Italy, and Spain through the University Studies Abroad Consortium, and to numerous schools in various countries through the International Student Exchange Program. Internships are developed on an ad hoc basis.
International Political Economy Minor
For information on an academic minor in international political economy, see the Department of Political Science & Public Affairs Research section (Part 5).