Business Administration Minor - Georgetown College

Applications for the Business Administration Minor are available here and must be emailed to Dean Tad Howard (hrh@georgetown.edu) by the deadline, Friday, February 18. Late applications will not be considered.

Beginning with the Class of 2012, 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

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
• 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; the list will be maintained by the College Dean’s Office. 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.

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

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. For more information, please visit the Office of International Programs at overseasstudies.georgetown.edu.

Questions about the Business Administration Minor may be directed to Associate Dean Tad Howard.