Minors

General Business
Accounting
Finance
International Business
Logistics & Operations Management
Management
Marketing
IS

MINOR IN GENERAL BUSINESS
(Available Only to Students Seeking Non-Business Degrees)

Students must successfully complete five of the following courses:

BA 1800 Computers and Information Systems
BA 2400 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
BA 2900 Legal Environment of Business
BA 3500 Financial Management
BA 3700 Basic Marketing
BA 3600 Management and Organizational Behavior
BA 3320 Introduction to Operations Management

Students must complete course prerequisites listed in schedule, however, some areas may permit alternative prerequisites.

In addition, the following requirements must also be met: No more than 30 hours of business courses within the 120 required for a degree. 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 and 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.

MINOR IN ACCOUNTING
(Not available to BSA Students)

See also general rules for minors below. Accounting Area Web Page

Students must successfully complete:

BA 2400 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
BA 2410 Managerial Accounting and

three of the following courses:

BA 3401 Financial Accounting and Reporting I
BA 3402 Financial Accounting and Reporting II
BA 4401 Financial Accounting and Reporting III
BA 4402 Financial Accounting and Reporting IV
BA 3451 Acct. for Governmental & Nonprofit Entities
BA 3421 Acct. Info Systems & Spreadsheet Appl
BA 3411 Cost Accounting
BA 3441 Income Taxes
BA 4435 Auditing
BA 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:

BA 3500 Financial Management and

four of the following courses:

BA 3525 Practicum in Investments
BA 3590 Practicum in Finance
BA 3564 Estate Planning and Trusts
BA 3561 Principles of Insurance
BA 3562 Life Insurance & Employee Benefits
BA 3520 Investments
BA 3521 Financial Risk Management
BA 3502 Treasury Management
BA 3542 Principles of Real Estate
BA 3560 Personal Financial Planning
BA 3563 Retirement Planning & Employee Benefits
BA 3501 Financial Policies
BA 3503 Computer Applications in Finance
BA 3540 Financial Services Industry & Instruments
BA 3541 Commercial Bank Management
BA 3580 International Finance

MINOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
(Not available to BSBA students)

International Business Web Page
See also general rules for minors below.

The minor in International Business is available to all students except those pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with an Emphasis in International Business.

Students must complete any 5 courses in International Business:

3580 International Finance
3581 Business in China
3680 International Management
3682 Managing the Global Workforce
3684 The Japanese Management System
3685 Role of the Global Corporation
3780 International Marketing
4288 Internship in International Business
4689 International Strategic Management
5280 International Business Operations
3582 International Investments
3980 The Law of International Business Transactions
4381 International Logistics and Operations Management
3X98 Business Administration Problems

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:

BA 3320 Introduction to Operations Management and

four of the following courses:

BA 3843 Decision Support Systems
BA 4320 Productions & Operations Management
BA 4330 Business Logistics Systems
BA 4322 Lean Production in Manuf. & Service Operations
BA 4324 Service Operations Management
BA 4312 Business Forecasting
BA 4326 Quality Assurance in Business
BA 4350 Operations Research
BA 4354 Operations Research II
CS 1250 Introduction to Computer Science *
BA 3806 Managerial Applications of Object-Oriented Programming I *
BA 3844 End-User Computing for Business Applications *

* 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:

BA 3600 Management & Organizational Behavior
BA 3611 Advanced Management & Organizational Behavior and

three of the following courses:

BA 3621 Human Resources Management
BA 3622 Industrial and Labor Relations
BA 3680 International Management
BA 3623 Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Cross-listed as Psych 3318)
BA 3624 Employee Training and Development
BA 4614 Entrepreneurship

MINOR IN MARKETING
(Not available to BSBA students)

See also general rules for minors below.

Students must successfully complete:

BA 3700 Basic Marketing and

four of the following courses:

BA 3720 Management of Promotion
BA 3740 Marketing Research
BA 3710 Consumer Behavior
BA 3741 Quantitative Marketing Methods
BA 3760 Business-to-Business Marketing
BA 3701 Marketing Management
BA 3780 International Marketing

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):

BA 3805 COBOL Programming #
BA 3815 File Management
BA 3806 Managerial Applications of Object- Oriented Programming I #
BA 3816 Managerial Applications of Object- Oriented Programming II
BA 3845 Database Management Systems
BA 3810 Information Systems Analysis
BA 3841 The Management of Information Systems
BA 3842 Management of Telecommunications
BA 3843 Decision Support Systems
BA 3844 End-User Computing for Business Applications
BA 4850 Information Systems Design

# May be used if it was not used to satisfy the preceding programming course requirement.

Minor in Transportation Studies

Available to all students. (For those pursuing the BSBA degree, this will result in an emphasis in marketing if the marketing capstone course, Bus Ad 4700, Marketing Management, is taken in addition to the requirements listed below. Such individuals will have completed both Bus Ad 3320, Introduction to Operations Management, and Bus Ad 3700, Basic Marketing.)

Students must complete five courses to include:

BA 3770 Introduction to Transportation
BA 3806 Traffic and Transportation Management

Plus three additional courses selected from:

BA 3090 Internship in Business Administration
BA 3099 Independent Study in Business Administration*
BA 3198 Business Administration Seminar: Domestic Transportation
BA 3198 Business Administration Seminar: Railroads in American Life
BA 3198 Business Administration Seminar: Aviation in American Life
BA 3198 Business Administration Seminar: Economics of Transportation
BA 3320 Introduction to Operations Management
BA 3700 Basic Marketing

*No more than one approved independent study course may count towards the minor.

GENERAL RULES

The following requirements apply to the minors in Accounting, Finance, Logistics & Operations Management, Management & Organizational Behavior, Management Information Systems, and Marketing and must be met in order to complete the minors:

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 and 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 the120 required for a degree are permitted.