A minor consisting of 24 units is offered in the field of Business Administration for the student not majoring in Business.

Students working toward a minor in Business Administration may select from the following concentrations: Human Resources Management; Marketing; Real Estate and Land Use Affairs; Risk Management and Insurance.

A student wishing to minor in Business Adminstration must file a Minor request petition (obtain in the Degree Programs Center). At least nine (9) upper division units must be taken in residence. ACCY, MGMT, MIS and OBE 195 and 199 will not count for credit towards the minor.

Lower-division courses must be completed prior to enrolling in upper-division courses. To earn a minor in Business Administration, a student must have a minimum 2.0 (“C” average) grade point average in the courses presented for the minor, with a minimum acceptable grade for any course being a “C-”.

NOTE: All business minors shall demonstrate computer literacy and competency prior to taking 100-level business courses. The computer literacy requirement may be satisfied by either: 1) Completing MIS 1A, 1B, and 1C or equivalent coursework; or 2) Passing the MIS Challenge Exams. Challenge Exam dates are posted at www.csus.edu/mis1abc.

Courses in parentheses are prerequisites.

COMPUTER LITERACY:
MIS 1A - Microcomputer Hardware and Software
MIS 1B - Spreadsheets
MIS 1C - Word Processing and Presentation Graphics

REQUIRED COURSES:
ACCY 1- Accounting Fundamentals
ACCY 2 - Managerial Accounting (ACCY 1)
STAT 1 - Introduction to Statistics (MATH 9)
OBE 118 - Legal Environment of Management
OBE 150 - Management of Contemporary Organizations

ELECTIVE COURSES:
Select one of the following courses:
MGMT 120 - Principles of Marketing
MGMT 133 - Business Finance
MGMT 180 - Operations Management

Select two 100-level Business courses designated as: Accountancy (ACCY)
Management (MGMT)
Management Information Systems (MIS)
and
Organizational Behavior and Environment (OBE).

NOTE: The student pursuing a minor in Business Administration is cautioned that other students who are enrolled in 100-level business courses and majoring in Business Administration normally have satisfactorily completed all prerequisites. To ensure the successful completion when prerequisites are not met, the student should obtain explicit permission of the instructor in each course prior to enrolling.

Business Minor Concentrations

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