Minor in Business

Major Courses
BI 1100	Business Analysis with Excel How to answer key business questions, analyze company finances, forecast sales, and prepare business cases while improving your Excel skills.
AC 2201	Accounting Principles I Elements of accounting theory, covering revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, and equity; account classification; analysis and recording of transactions; sources of accounting data; corporation accounting; theory of accounting valuations; preparation of financial statements; manufacturing cost flows and analysis.
AC 2202	Accounting Principles II Elements of accounting theory, covering revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, and equity; account classification; analysis and recording of transactions; sources of accounting data; corporation accounting; theory of accounting valuations; preparation of financial statements; manufacturing cost flows and analysis. Prerequisite: AC 201 or AC 2201.
EC 2202	Principles of Economics I Microeeconomic principles and problems. The nature of economics and its method, the economic problem, demand and supply analysis, costs of production, market structures, product and resource pricing, and international trade. Algebra is used throughout both EC 201 and 202.
EC 2202	Principles of Economics II Macroeconomic principles and problems. Economic goals, basic information about the American economy, national income accounting, international finance, theories of income determination, economic growth and instability, money and banking, monetary and fiscal policy, the public debt, and selected economic problems. Algebra is used in both EC 2201 and 2202.Prerequisite: EC 201 or EC 2201.
BI 2200	Data-Driven Decision-Making Introduction to business intelligence and analysis concepts, including data management, summarization, and visualization. Database, spreadsheet, and visualization software offer a hands-on perspective of key tools in data analysis and business decision-making. The course goes beyond software tutorials by using lectures, exercises, and assignments to present data modeling and analytical concepts and techniques. Prerequisite: BI 100 or BI 1100.
MOL 3301	Managing Employees for Competitive Advantage Introduction to the theories and practices of managing employees for competitive advantage. Topics include employee acquisition, career and talent development, reward systems, labor relations, employment law and government regulations, and strategic human resource management. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.Please note that this replaces MHR 352.
MK 3301	Marketing Principles Introduces students to the field of marketing. Provides an overview of marketing concepts and strategies critical to value-driven marketing. Emphasis on how to develop, promote, distribute, and price an organization’s offerings in a dynamic economic, social, political, and international environment. Ethical issues are also examined.Prerequisite: Sophomore standing with a minimum of 25 credit hours.

Please note the following:

• The Boler College encourages students to take a statistics course (e.g. EC 2210 – Business Analytics and Statistics or DATA 1220 – Elementary Statistics) to satisfy the Quantitative Analysis (QA) requirement in the integrative core which could allow them to take FN 3312 – Business Finance.
• Business minors may take up to two additional Boler College courses.
• The minor must be completed with a GPA of at least 2.0.