Business Administration Minor - Georgetown College

The Spring 2012 application deadline for the Business Administration Minor has passed. The next application cycle will occur in Spring 2013.

The Business Administration Minor in Georgetown College offers students an opportunity to develop business knowledge and skills, in combination with their liberal arts education, to better equip them to contribute to the global economy with creativity, integrity, and a commitment to social responsibility. This minor brings College students together with MSB students in various curricular programs to examine the field of business from diverse intellectual perspectives and more thoroughly understand business in a cultural, political and social context. The minor allows College students to take business courses in the six main areas of accounting, finance, operations, management, marketing, and strategy, ethics, and public policy, as well as in selected liberal arts disciplines that build bridges between a student’s major, minor or other interests and the broad field of business. All students in the Business Administration Minor take a capstone course in Social Responsibility of Business that challenges students to apply their learning in an ethical manner and prepares them to contribute generously to their intellectual and professional communities.

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION FOR THE MINOR

PLEASE NOTE: Students accepted to the Business Administration Minor and students interested in applying for the minor should not take ACCT 001 or FINC 150.

A College student is eligible to apply for the Business Administration Minor if he/she:

• is in the spring term of sophomore year,
• is completing the final of the 4 prerequisites (see below),
• has a minimum 3.3 cumulative average,
• has a minimum 3.3 average in the prerequisites.

The program is limited to 50 students per class, selected on the basis of an application submitted in spring of their sophomore year. Junior and senior students are not eligible to apply retroactively. The application will consist of an essay outlining the student’s reasons for seeking a minor in Business Administration, with an emphasis on how the minor would complement the student’s other major or minor interests. A committee of deans in the College and MSB will review the applications.

MINOR REQUIREMENTS

4 PREREQUISITES

• Calculus: MATH 035
• Statistics: MATH 040, OPIM 173, or ECON 121
• Economics: 2 courses in ECON, only one of which may be completed with AP credit.
o If you have AP credit for both ECON 001 and 002, take ECON 101.
o If you have AP credit for ECON 001 only, take ECON 002 or ECON 003.
o If you have AP credit for ECON 002 only, take ECON 001 or ECON 003.
o If you have no AP credit in ECON, take ECON 001 and 002, or ECON 003 and 101.

6 REQUIRED COURSES (plus OPIM 170)

• OPIM 170, Computational Business Modeling (1 cr.; pass/fail)

• ACCT 101, Accounting I

• STRT 282, Social Responsibility of Business (Required Capstone Course)

• 4 Advanced Electives: Students must take at least 3 courses in the Business School, excluding ACCT-001 and FINC-150. Students may choose to take a broad-based minor or to specialize in a single area by taking at least 3 electives in one area to gain in-depth knowledge. Students may choose the 3 MSB courses from offerings in:
o Accounting
o Finance
o Management, Leadership, and Innovation
o Marketing
o Operations (Statistics/Analytics; Management Science; Operations Management)
o Strategy, Ethics, and Public Policy

o The fourth elective may be from any of the above MSB areas or from the list of approved College “Bridge Electives,” courses that explore the cultural, political, and social contexts of business. These are designated electives in College departments. Students are encouraged to take as their fourth elective an approved College course in their major or minor discipline, or in another area of interest to enhance the integration of their curricular programs. This course, however, will only count toward the Business Administration minor, and not toward the student’s major or other minors. The list of Bridge Electives follows:

• ANTH411: Consuming Drug Food
   
• COSC011: Intro to Information Privacy
• COSC014: Intro to Information Systems
• COSC380: Intro to Database (students may not take this and OPIM257)
   
• ECON243: International Trade
• ECON244: International Finance (students may not take this and FINC250)
• ECON391: Japanese Economy
• ECON408: Economics of Information
• ECON429: Topics in Competition and Regulation
• ECON458: Economic Crises
• ECON461: Industrial Organization
• ECON471: Unemployment, Search, and Matching
• ECON481: Labor Economics
• ECON484: Political Economy of Trade Policy
   
• ENGL345: Organizational Rhetoric and Writing (students may not take this and MGMT200)
   
• GOVT288: International Political Economy
• GOVT291: International Organizations
• GOVT354: Environmental Politics
• GOVT415: Dept Sem: Globalization and International Law
• GOVT478: Poverty & Inequity
• GOVT499: Dept Sem: Politics, Markets, and Cultures
   
• HIST284: History of American Labor
• HIST285: American Consumer Culture
• HIST290: Oil and World Power
• HIST328: China and the US
• HIST406: Shopping! A Global History
   
• MATH240: Applied Statistical Methods
• MATH605: Intro to Financial Mathematics
   
• PHIL377: Ethics and Economics
   
• PSYC361: Children and Technology
   
• SOCI166: Modernization and Development
• SOCI167: Globalization and Social Change
• SOCI168: Social Entrepreneurship and Change
• SOCI223: Visual Sociology and Consumer Technology
• SOCI226: Consumer Culture: East Asia
• SOCI245: Philanthropy and Social Change
• SOCI437 & 438: Project DC

o FLL options:

• CHIN321: Business Chinese
• FREN293: Business French
• GERM292: German Business Culture
• JAPN322: Business Japanese II
• KREN216: Business Korean I
• KREN217: Business Korean II
• PORT171: Business Portuguese
  

STUDY ABROAD

Students are strongly advised to complete all business electives on campus at Georgetown. Study abroad programs should be appropriate for students' majors, but students may receive credit toward the Business Administration Minor for a course (maximum of one) taken while studying abroad. Students must receive approval in advance from the MSB Dean’s Office to do so.

Questions about the Business Administration Minor may be directed to Academic Counselor Jessica Ciani-Dausch .