Business Administration/Business Studies Minor

Note: The Business Administration minor has been renamed to Business Studies for the Class of 2024, with some adjustments made to the curriculum as well. The Business Administration/Business Studies minor is open by application only and students apply in the spring semester of their sophomore year.
Applications for the Business Studies minor for the Class of 2024 are now closed. All applicants will receive decisions later in March 2022.
The Business Administration/Business Studies 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 and integrity. This minor brings College students together with McDonough School of Business (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 and analytics, management, marketing, and strategy, economics, 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.
The minor 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/Business Studies, with an emphasis on how the minor would complement the student’s other major or minor interests. A committee of deans from the College and the McDonough School of Business will review the applications.
*Interested transfer students who matriculate to Georgetown in spring of sophomore year or in junior year should speak to their advisor as soon as possible upon matriculation to Georgetown.
Students accepted to the minor and students interested in applying for the minor should not take ACCT-001 or FINC-150 (these courses do not count toward the minor). All College students (including minors) are limited to a maximum of 6 MSB courses (ACCT, BADM, FINC, MARK, MGMT, OPIM, and STRT) within their College degree. All MSB courses taken above and beyond 6 will not count toward the College degree.
Students who wish to complete the minor and take FINC-150 must make sure that 1 of the Advanced Electives required for the minor is a College bridge elective (see below), thereby keeping the total number of MSB courses in the degree within the limit of 6.
Minors must take ACCT-101 in the fall term of their junior year (or upon return if a student is studying abroad in the fall term of junior year). Students in the minor or interested in applying for the minor should not take ACCT-001.
As part of completing the minor, students may take up to one “bridge” elective. These are designated courses within the College that explore the cultural, political, and social contexts of business. Bridge electives offered in a particular semester can be found in the Schedule of Classes using the “College/Bus Admin Minor Bridge” attribute search. Past courses that have been recognized as suitable bridge electives are:
AMST-382 Advertising and Social Change
ANTH-170 Commerce Across Cultures: Trade in Turbulence
CATH-205 Catholicism and the Origins of Modern Business
CLSS-342 Ancient Roman Economy
COSC-011 Introduction to Information Privacy
COSC-287 Data Science
COSC-411 Information Warfare
ECON-156 Poverty
ECON-243 International Trade
ECON-244 International Finance (students may not take this and FINC-250)
ECON-264 Global Equity Capital Markets
ECON-384 Topics in Trade
ECON-391 Japanese Economy
ECON-408 Economics of Information
ECON-429 Topics in Competition and Regulation\
ECON-458 Economic Crises
ECON-461 Industrial Organization
ECON-465 Money, Banking, & Financial Markets
ECON-481 Labor Economics
ECON-484 Political Economy of Trade Policy
ENST-441 GIS Environment and Health
GOVT-261 International Political Economy
GOVT-262 International Organizations
GOVT-354 Environmental Politics
GOVT-362 Poverty and the World Economy
GOVT-382 Max Weber
GOVT-415 Dept Seminar: Globalization and International Law
GOVT-478 Poverty and Inequity
GOVT-499 Dept Seminar: Politics, Markets, and Cultures
HIST-203 Global/Local Foods and Food Systems
HIST-284 History of American Labor
HIST-290 Oil and World Power
HIST-328 China and the US
HIST-382 Topics in US History: Unfree Labor in US after 1865
MATH-240 Applied Statistical Methods
MUSC-261 Perform Arts & Museum Mgmt I
MUSC-262 Perf Art Adm:Fund/Grnt/Mkt/PolJ
PHIL-129 Ethics: Global Justice
PHIL-377 Ethics and Economics
PHIL-141 Ethics: Moral Foundations of Market Society
SOCI-154 Sociology of the 1 Percent
SOCI-157 Global Power Elites
SOCI-166 Modernization and Development
SOCI-167 Globalization and Social Change
SOCI-168 CBL: Social Entrepreneurship
SOCI-220 CBL: Global Inequalities/Social Justice
SOCI-223 Visual Sociology and Consumer Technology
SOCI-226 Consumerism in East Asian Societies
SOCI-245 Philanthropy and Social Change
SOCI-258 Inequality and Social Chance in Latin America
SOCI-437/438 Project DC
WGST-224 Labor, Sexuality, Globalization
ARAB-328 Business Arabic
CHIN-321 Business Chinese
FREN-293 Business French
GERM-292 German Business Culture
JAPN-322 Business Japanese II
KREN-321 Business Korean I
PORT-171 Business Portuguese
SPAN-209 Adv Spanish for Business
For students in the Class of 2021, 2022, and 2023, please see “Business Administration Minor” for prerequisites and minor requirements.
For the Class of 2024 and later, please see “Business Studies Minor” for prerequisites and minor requirements.
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 Studies minor for a course (maximum of one) taken while studying abroad. The course must be approved in advance by the MSB Undergraduate Program Office. For more information, including to view MSB-approved study abroad programs, please visit the Office of Global Education.
Questions about the Business Administration/Business Studies minor may be directed to Assistant Dean Jessica Ciani-Dausch at cianij@georgetown.edu.