Minor in Business for Non-Business Majors
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The Business Minor is designed for students pursuing majors in colleges other than the College of Business (BUS). The minor provides course work through which students can obtain skills and learn tools used in business. Students will learn the theories, techniques and concepts of accounting, marketing, management and finance. The Business Minor provides a background that will be useful for non-business students who wish to pursue careers in their majors by working for a business or by creating their own businesses. The Business Minor is not available to Business majors or Technology and Management minor students. The minor is not to be considered as preparation for transfer into BUS to earn a business degree.
Admission to the minor is competitive and is based upon the Prerequisite Course and Cumulative GPAs of the pool of applicants. All courses required for the minor must be taken for a Letter Grade. Grade exceptions will be made only for Prerequisite Course Requirements that are fulfilled by AP credits. Students are admitted by application into the Business minor. Applications are accepted during the months of January and May each year in the Office of Undergraduate Affairs, 1055 Business Instructional Facility.
Application Requirements:
1. Have completed at least 60 hours by the end of the spring semester of application.
2. Have completed or be concurrently enrolled in the four Prerequisite Courses during the spring semester of application. Please see Business Minor website for approved substitute prerequisite courses. www.business.illinois.edu/minor
Prerequisite Course Requirements:
| Course |
|---|
| MATH 234-Calculus for Business I |
| CS 105-Intro to Computing for Non-Tech |
| ECON 102-Principles of Microeconomics |
| STAT 100-Statistics I |
All students must be in academic good standing (2.0 Cumulative GPA or higher). In addition, a Cumulative 2.0 GPA is required in the four Prerequisite Courses. Application is made by submitting the "Statement of Intent to Pursue a Campus-Approved Minor" to the College of Business’s Office of Undergraduate Affairs. Applications will be reviewed by the College in February and June. All applicants will be notified of a decision by mid-February or mid-June. Planning to pursue a Business minor does not offer special registration privileges.
Only students officially admitted by the College of Business may earn the minor.
Core Course Requirements:
| Course |
|---|
| ACCY 200-Fundamentals of Accounting (Enrollment in the Fall semester in the year of acceptance) Enrollment is restricted to approved minor students. |
| BADM 320-Principles of Marketing (Enrollment in the Spring semester) |
| FIN 221-Corporate Finance Prerequisites: ACCY 200 (Enrollment in the Spring semester) |
| BADM 310-Management and Organizational Behavior (Enrollment in the Fall semester) |
Note: ACCY 200, BADM 310, BADM 320 and FIN 221 must be taken on the UIUC campus. No exceptions for Study Abroad credits.
Elective Course Requirements:
Students must select at least two of the following Elective courses to complete the minor requirements.
Students must first fulfill the Elective Course prerequisites before enrollment into the Elective Courses.
| Course |
|---|
| BADM 300 The Legal Environment of Business |
| BADM 313 Human Resource Management (Prerequisite: BADM 310) |
| BADM 321 Principles of Retailing (Prerequisite: BADM 320) |
| BADM 322 Marketing Research (Prerequisites BADM 320 and STAT 100) |
| BADM 325 Consumer Behavior (Prerequisite BADM 320) |
| BADM 340 Ethical Dilemmas in Business |
| BADM 350 Information Technology for Networked Organizations |
| BADM 352 Database Design and Management |
| BADM 379 Business Process Improvement |