Business Administration Minor

A Business Administration minor is designed to provide an opportunity for non-business students to examine and evaluation the complex components of today’s competitive business environment. The Business Administration minor gives students a clear understand of how business works, and, ultimately, gives them a strategy for using business as a tool to achieve their professional and personal goals. The Business Administration minor will provide students with a wide spectrum of fundamental business principles to give them a start in the right direction.

Learning goals for the Business Administration Minor

• Students will demonstrate an ability to evaluate the foundations of the various business disciplines and how they function together to create a sustainable business operation.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the principles and theories of marketing and apply them to marketing program design, diving into social media and other marketing tools.
• Students will demonstrate knowledge of theories of economic behavior and the ability to explain economic decisions of consumers and firms within the markets and economies in which they participate.
• Students will demonstrate and ability to create value for future employers by learning how to read and create financial statements and exploring the impact of transactions on the financial position and profitability of a business by analyzing financial reports of real-world corporations.
• Students will demonstrate an ability to practice key planning and models or organizational change and their impact on management practice.