Business Programs

This minor in accounting examines key areas within accounting, including financial accounting, managerial accounting, accounting cycle analyses, and financial accounting and reporting. The accounting minor is a 21-credit program that explores related areas such as macroeconomics and statistics. The minor in accounting is an ideal secondary area of focus for HR management, management, and business administration majors.

This business administration minor develops management, organizational, and leadership skills that can enhance a number of roles and career fields. The business minor is a 15-credit program that explores business essentials such as human resource management, principles of marketing, basic statistics, and principles of finance. This minor in business administration lets students choose either a microeconomics or macroeconomics elective path.

This minor in fashion business explores the fashion industry through the lens of entrepreneurship. The fashion minor is an 18-credit program that covers the essentials of running a fashion venture, including apparel design, digital apparel production management, management, marketing, business law, and financial accounting. Students can choose to specialize in small business and entrepreneurship or fashion business and entrepreneurship in their elective focus, depending on their career goals.

This minor in finance develops fundamental expertise in financial accounting, corporate finance, and investments. The finance minor is a 21-credit program that lets students specialize in areas such as retirement planning, financing business ventures, international finance and more. Students can further refine their finance studies through a focus in macroeconomics or microeconomics.

This minor in HR management examines key areas such as recruiting, hiring, talent management, performance management, HR metrics, compensation, employee benefits, employee training, and labor relations. The minor in human resources management is an 18-credit program that develops management and leadership skills, along with problem-solving and communications aptitudes. HRM faculty enhance learning through their real-world HR leadership experience in a number of sectors.

This management minor develops expertise in the foundational principles of management. The minor in management is a 27-credit program that explores key aspects of organizational management, including finance, HR management, operations management, and project management. The business management minor enhances core studies with specialized focuses in statistics, as well as elective coursework in international management, organizational behavior, and more.

This marketing minor covers the foundational principles, concepts, and theories of contemporary marketing. The minor in marketing is a 15-credit program that gives students the opportunity to refine their core learning through marketing elective focuses in marketing information and research, advertising and promotional strategy, digital marketing, and selling. The marketing minor offers further opportunity to define learning interests and career goals through electives in consumer behavior, product management, contemporary audience analysis, and more.

This social media marketing minor covers the fundamentals of social media marketing, including social media platforms, social media strategy, personal branding, digital content and demographics and demographic analysis. The social media marketing minor is an 18-credit program that lets students refine their learning through elective focuses in visual branding, writing for media, graphic communications, and digital marketing, among others. This minor can enhance majors such as business administration, management, marketing, and more.

This sports management minor covers the essentials of the sports business industry, including sport marketing and promotion, principles of marketing, and sport business management. The sports management minor is a 15-credit program that offers specialized elective focuses in sport law, sport economics and finance, strategic management of sports facilities, and more. This minor complements business administration and management degrees and prepares students for any number of careers in the sport industry.