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Business Academic Minor Requirements

Business Minor

Economics Minor

International Business Minor

International Political Economy Minor

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.

Acct 201

Introduction to Financial Accounting and

Acct 202

Introduction to Managerial Accounting (6 cr)

Econ 202

Prin of Economics or

Econ 272

Foundations of Econ Analysis (3-4 cr)

Stat 251

Prin of Statistics or

Stat 271

Statistical Inference and Decision Analysis or

Stat 301

Probability and Statistics (3-4 cr)

Five of the following courses (or Bus 340-345) (15 cr)

Bus 101

Introduction to Business Enterprises (3 cr)

Bus 301

Financial Management (3 cr)

Bus 311

Introduction to Management (3 cr)

Bus 321

Marketing (3 cr)

Bus 350

Management Information Systems or

Bus 351

Introduction to Electronic Commerce (3 cr)

Bus 370

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.

Econ 201, 202

Prin of Econ or

Econ 272

Foundations of Econ Analysis (4-6 cr)

Econ 351

Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis (3 cr)

Econ 352

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

Econ 343

Money and Banking (3 cr)

Econ 353

Quantitative Economics and Forecasting (3 cr)

Econ 453

Econometrics (3 cr)

Public Policy

Econ 407

Public Finance (3 cr)

Econ 415

Market Structure and Governmental Policy (3 cr)

Development

Econ 446

International Economics (3 cr)

Econ 447

International Development Economics (3 cr)

Economic Resources

Econ 385

Environmental Economics (3 cr)

Econ 441

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.

Bus 345

Business Operating Decisions (3 cr)

Bus 481

International Finance (3 cr)

Bus 482

International Marketing (3 cr)

Econ 446

International Economics (3 cr)

PolS 237

International Politics (3 cr)

One of the following courses or another approved elective (3 cr):

Econ 415

Marketing Structure and Governmental Policy (3 cr)

Econ 447

International Development Economics (3 cr)

FLEN 307

The European Union (3 cr)

PolS 440

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).