Minors
General Business
Accounting
Finance
International Business
Logistics & Operations Management
Management
Marketing
IS
Transportation Studies
MINOR IN GENERAL BUSINESS
(Available Only to Students Seeking Non-Business Degrees)
See also general rules for minor below.
Students must successfully complete five of the following courses:
INFSYS 1800 Computers and Information Systems
ACCTNG 2400 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
BUS AD 2900 Legal Environment of Business
LOG OM 3320 Introduction to Operations Management
FINANCE 3500 Financial Management
MGMT 3600 Management and Organizational Behavior
MKTG 3700 Basic Marketing
MINOR IN ACCOUNTING
(Not available to BSA Students)
Accounting Area Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
ACCTNG 2400 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
ACCTNG 2410 Managerial Accounting and
three of the following courses:
ACCTNG 3401 Financial Accounting and Reporting I
ACCTNG 3402 Financial Accounting and Reporting II
ACCTNG 3411 Cost Accounting
ACCTNG 3421 Acct. Info Systems & Spreadsheet Appl
ACCTNG 3441 Income Taxes
ACCTNG 3451 Acct. for Governmental & Nonprofit Entities
ACCTNG 4401 Financial Accounting and Reporting III
ACCTNG 4402 Financial Accounting and Reporting IV
ACCTNG 4435 Auditing
ACCTNG 4441 Business Income Taxation
MINOR IN FINANCE
(Not available to BSBA students)
Finance Area Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
FIFNANCE 3500 Financial Management and
four of the following courses:
FINANCE 3501 Financial Policies
FINANCE 3502 Treasury Management
FINANCE 3503 Computer Applications in Finance
FINANCE 3520 Investments
FINANCE 3521 Financial Risk Management
FINANCE 3525 Practicum in Investments
FINANCE 3540 Financial Services Industry & Instruments
FINANCE 3541 Commercial Bank Management
FINANCE 3542 Principles of Real Estate
FINANCE 3560 Personal Financial Planning
FINANCE 3561 Principles of Insurance
FINANCE 3562 Life Insurance & Employee Benefits
FINANCE 3563 Retirement Planning & Employee Benefits
FINANCE 3564 Estate Planning and Trusts
FINANCE 3580 International Finance
FINANCE 3590 Practicum in Finance
MINOR IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(Not available to BSIS Students)
IS Area Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
BA 1800 Computers and Information Systems and
one of the following programming courses:
BA 3805 COBOL Programming
BA 3806 Managerial Applications of Object- Oriented Programming I and
three of the following elective courses (at least one of the three courses must be BA 3845, BA 3810, or a 300-level course):
INFSYS 3807 Legacy Systems
INFSYS 3815 Object Oriented Applications in Business
INFSYS 3841 Enterprise Information Systems
INFSYS 3842 Management of Telecommunications
INFSYS 3843 Decision Support Systems
INFSYS 3844 Developing Business Applications in .NET
INFSYS 3846 E-commerce
INFSYS 3847 Web Design
INFSYS 3848 Security and Information Systems
*INFSYS 3895/3898 Business Administration Problems/Seminar
*INFSYS 3899 Independent Study
* These are restricted to those approved by the faculty and the area coordinator
* May be used if it was not used to satisfy the preceding programming course requirement.
MINOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
(Not available to BSBA students)
International Business Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must complete any 5 courses in International Business:
BUS AD 3980 The Law of International Business Transactions
FINANCE 3580 International Corporate Finance
FINANCE 3581 Business in China
FINANCE 3582 International Investments
LOG OM 4381 International Logistics and Operations Management
MGMT 3680 International Management
MGMT 3682 Managing the Global Workforce
MGMT 3684 The Japanese Management System
MGMT 3685 Role of the Global Corporation
MKTG 3780 International Marketing
MGMT 4689 International Strategic Management
MINOR IN LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(Not available to BSBA students)
LOM Area Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
LOG OM 3320 Introduction to Operations Management and
four of the following courses:
*INFSYS 3806 Managerial Applications of Object-Oriented Programming I
INFSYS 3843 Decision Support Systems
*INFSYS 3844 End-User Computing for Business Applications
LOG OM 4312 Business Forecasting
LOG OM 4320 Productions & Operations Management
LOG OM 4322 Lean Production in Manuf. & Service Operations
LOG OM 4324 Service Operations Management
LOG OM 4326 Quality Assurance in Business
LOG OM 4330 Business Logistics Systems
LOG OM 4350 Operations Research
LOG OM 4354 Operations Research II
*No more than one of these programming courses may be counted toward the minor.
MINOR IN MANAGEMENT
(Not available to BSBA students)
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
MGMT 3600 Management & Organizational Behavior
MGMT 3611 Advanced Management & Organizational Behavior and
three of the following courses:
MGMT 3621 Human Resources Management
MGMT 3622 Industrial and Labor Relations
MGMT 3680 International Management
MGMT 3623 Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Cross-listed as PSYCH 3318)
MGMT 3624 Employee Training and Development
MGMT 3682 Managing the Global
MGMT 3684 Japanese Management System
MGMT 3685 Role of Global Corporation
MGMT 4614 Entrepreneurship
MGMT 4689 International Strategic Management
MINOR IN MARKETING
(Not available to BSBA students)
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
MKTG 3700 Basic Marketing and
four of the following courses:
MKTG 3710 Consumer Behavior
MKTG 3720 Management of Promotion
MKTG 3721 International Marketing
MKTG 3740 Marketing Research
MKTG 3741 Quantitative Marketing Methods
MKTG 3750 Sales Management
MKTG 3760 Business-to-Business Marketing
MKTG 3770 Introduction to Transportation
MKTG 3771 Traffic and Transportation
MKTG 3780 International Marketing
MKTG 3798 Topic: Aviation in American Life
MKTG 3798 Topic: Domestic Transportation
MKTG 3798 Topic: Economic in Transportation
MKTG 3798 Topic: Railroads in American Life
MKTG 3798 Topic: Seminar in International Marketing
MKTG 4700 Marketing Management
MINOR In TRANSPORTATION STUDIES
See also general rules for minors below.
Students must successfully complete:
MKTG 3770 Introduction to Transportation
MKTG 3771 Traffic and Transportation Management
Plus three additional courses selected from:
MKTG 3700 Basic Marketing
MKTG 3790 Internship in Marketing
MKTG 3798 Topic: Aviation in American Life
MKTG 3798 Topic: Domestic Transportation
MKTG 3798 Topic: Economics of Transportation
MKTG 3798 Topic: Railroads in American Life
MKTG 3799 Independent Study in Business Administration*
LOG OM 3320 Intro to Operations Management
*No more than one approved independent study course may count towards the minor.
GENERAL RULES
- Grade point average of 2.0 or better, and must earn a C- or better grade (no satisfactory/unsatisfactory) in all courses included in the minor.
- At least 9 credit hours of the courses required for a minor must be taken in residence at UM-St. Louis. A minor is not conferred without completion of a UM-St. Louis baccalaureate degree.
- Minors may be completed for up to two years following conferral of the baccalaureate degree. All work towards a minor following conferral of the baccalaureate must be completed in residence at UM-St. Louis.
- For non-business degree seeking students no more than 30 hours of business courses within the 120 required for a degree are permitted.