Accounting Minor

NOTE: This minor is not available to students seeking a B.S. in Accounting.
Business majors must take an additional two (2) courses in accounting.

• Available to business and non-business majors (business majors are required to take two additional accounting courses).
• Students are exposed to the basic accounting principles as well as at least one advanced topic area.
• Opportunities for career-relevant work experience through the College's Cooperative Education and Internships programs, Small Business Institute, and Volunteers in Tax Assistance.
• Course scheduling accommodates both full and part-time students with accounting courses offered during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Financial Management

• Available to business and non-business majors (business students are required to take an additional finance or economics course).
• Students are exposed to the basic concepts of corporate financing and investment analysis.
• Faculty are practicing bankers and investment specialists who inject "real world" relevance into the required readings, lectures, and case studies.
• Course scheduling accommodates both full and part-time students with finance and economic courses offered during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Program Benefits

Students integrate classroom learning with job experience (through cooperative education) and can also determine if they wish to pursue a career in finance (brokerage houses, investment companies, or banks).

Program Outcomes

• Graduates acquire marketable skills that are critical to a successful career in business with a specific orientation towards financial management.
• Graduates participating in the Co- operative Education program typically receive job offers from their employers.

Marketing Management Minor

Note: Note available to students seeking a B.S. in Accounting or Business Administration

• Available to all non-business majors.
• Students are exposed to the basic management and marketing principles as well as advanced topics in each area.
• Faculty are practicing managers and marketers who inject "real world" relevance into the required readings, lectures, and case studies.
• Opportunities for career-relevant work experience through the College's Cooperative Education and Internships programs, the Small Business Institute, and Volunteers in Tax Assistance.
• Course scheduling accommodates both full and part-time students with business
  courses offered during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Program Benefits

Students integrate classroom learning with job experience (through cooperative education) and can also determine if they wish to pursue a career in management and marketing. This is an important option for students majoring in related fields such as Communications, Writing, and Environmental Studies.

Program Outcomes

Graduates acquire marketable skills in a fast-growing industry that are critical to a
successful career in business with a specific orientation towards management and
marketing.

Management Information Systems Minor

• Available to accounting, business and non-business majors (business students are required to take an additional computer science or data processing course).
• Students are exposed to the basic concepts of management information systems and computer hardware/software design.
• Faculty are practicing computer programmers, systems analysts, and information processing consultants who inject "real world" relevance into the required readings, lectures, and case studies.
• "Hands-on" experience with computer software and hardware.
• Opportunities for career-relevant work experience through the College's Cooperative Education and Internships programs, the Small Business Institute and Volunteers in Tax Assistance.
• Course scheduling accommodates both full and part-time students with computer science and data processing courses offered during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Program Benefits

• Students integrate classroom learning with job experience (through cooperative education) and can also determine if they wish to pursue a career in management information systems.
• Students are exposed to the latest developments in computer application software technology including the world-wide web.

Program Outcomes

• Graduates acquire marketable skills in a fast-growing industry that are critical to a successful career in business with a specific orientation towards management information systems.
• Graduates participating in the Co- operative Education program typically receive job offers from their employers.

Sports Administration Minor

• Available to all business and non- business majors (business and accounting students are required to take two additional sport administration courses).
• Faculty are practicing sport managers and marketers who inject "real world" relevance into the required readings, lectures, and case studies.
• Opportunities for career-relevant work experience through the College's Cooperative Education and Internships programs and the Small Business Institute.
• Course scheduling accommodates both full and part-time students with business courses offered during the day, evenings, and weekends.

Program Benefits

• Students are exposed to one of the fastest growing industries in the United States and an industry with tremendous demand for competent employees with diverse job skills.
• Students integrate classroom learning with job experience (through cooperative education) and can also determine if they wish to pursue a career in sport administration.

Program Outcomes

• Graduates acquire marketable skills in a fast-growing industry that are critical to a successful career in business with a specific orientation towards sport management and marketing.
• Graduates participating in the Co- operative Education program typically receive job offers from their employers.