Minors in Business

If you are pursuing a non-business major, some business understanding will certainly enhance your undergraduate learning experience. The college offers three business minors—business, entrepreneurship, or marketing. Your minor will be awarded at graduation along with your major degree.

Business minor requirements

To earn a business minor, you'll need to take five business courses, some of which have lower division prerequisites. If you complete the courses with grades of "C" or higher, the minor status and the knowledge are yours.

The following courses are required:

• ACG 3024 Accounting for Managers and Investors
• FIN 3140 Personal Financial Management
• CGS 3300 Introduction to Information Systems
• MAN 3025 Organization and Management
• MAR 3023 Marketing Management

Entrepreneurship minor requirements

The Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, founded in 2003 at Florida International University, facilitates all entrepreneurial activities at FIU, which includes academic programs. The center's programs provide campus-wide awareness of entrepreneurship as an approach to life that enhances and transcends traditional academic experiences. It is woven into the fabric of FIU through activities and courses across the university.

The multi-dimensional nature of the program allows it to address the unique entrepreneurial needs of the nation's largest ethnically diverse academic institutions, located in one of America's most entrepreneurial and dynamic international cities, Miami.

Whether in the arts, sciences, business, engineering, or humanities, entrepreneurship at FIU adds value to every discipline and enhances the creativity and innovation of students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The center encourages all majors to enroll in entrepreneurship courses.

Non-business students must take the following required courses (fifteen credit hours) to obtain an entrepreneurship minor:

• GEB 4113 Entrepreneurship (or cross-listed course)
• GEB 4110 Business Plan Development (or cross-listed course, pre-requisite GEB 4113 or equivalent)

Plus three of the following elective courses (9 credit hours):

• ACG 3024 Accounting for Managers and Investors
• AMH 4373 Entrepreneurs in the US
• AMH 4375 Technology & American Society
• GEB 4117 Product Development and Innovation (or cross-listed course)
• MAN 4142 Intuition in Management (or cross-listed course)
• MAN 4802 Small Business Management
• MAN 4864 Family-Owned Businesses
• MAR 4025 Marketing of Small Business Enterprises

Marketing minor

The minor in marketing is offered to students pursuing a non-business major. Upon completing of the five courses with grades of 'C' or higher, a student will be conferred a "minor in marketing" concurrently with the bachelor's degree in his/her major area. It is the student's responsibility to meet the prerequisites for the courses in his/her minor.

To earn a Marketing minor, a student must complete the following courses:

Required:

MAR 3023 Marketing Management
MAR 4503 Consumer Behavior

Three courses (9 credit hours) selected from the following electives:

MAN 4065 Business Ethics
MAN 4731 Modern Business History
MAR 4001 Marketing Yourself in Today's Competitive Job Market
MAR 4002 Tools for Managing Marketing Information

MAR 4144 Export Marketing
MAR 4156 International Marketing
MAR 4203 Marketing Channels
MAR 4231 Retail Marketing
MAR 4323 Integrated Marketing Communication
MAR 4400 Personal Selling
MAR 4403 Sales Management
MAR 4613 Managing Marketing Information
MAR 4853 Marketing Strategy
MAR 4722 e-Marketing