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Program Description
This minor offers fundamental courses in business, the opportunity for more advanced business courses, and Liberal Arts coursework emphasizing entreprenuership, ethics, and a range of perspectives on business.
What is Business and the Liberal Arts?
This minor offers fundamental courses in business, the opportunity for more advanced business courses, and Liberal Arts coursework emphasizing entrepreneurship, ethics, and a range of perspectives on business. All students take a course on Business and the Liberal Arts co-taught by alumni, along with a course on Leadership, and have a reasonable degree of flexibility in remaining courses.
You Might Like This Program If...
You want to mix business courses with Liberal Arts courses to acquire core knowledge and quantitative skills that are invaluable assets for success in the business professions. Companies will favor liberal arts majors with a business minor because you have the business expertise through your minor, but there’s an added bonus: your major likely provided you with communication skills, worldly knowledge, cultural awareness, or expertise in government/politics—all things beneficial for an organization.
Program Requirements
| Requirement | Credits |
|---|---|
| Requirements for the Minor | 25 |
Requirements for the Minor
Students pursuing the Minor in Business and the Liberal Arts are encouraged to use ENGL 202D to satisfy their English 202 requirement. ECON 102 is a required prerequisite for some of the business courses.
A grade of C or better is required for all courses in the minor, as specified by Senate Policy 59-10. In addition, at least six credits of the minor must be unique from the prescribed courses required by a student's major(s).
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prescribed Courses | ||
| Prescribed Courses: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| ACCTG 211 | Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making | 4 |
| BA 301 | Finance | 3 |
| LA 202 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts | 3 |
| PHIL 119 | Ethical Leadership  | 3 |
| Additional Courses | ||
| Additional Courses: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| Select 6 credits of the following: | 6 | |
| Supply Chains | ||
or SCM 301 | Supply Chain Management | |
| Marketing | ||
or MKTG 221 | Contemporary American Marketing | |
or MKTG 301 | Principles of Marketing | |
| Management and Organization | ||
or MGMT 100 | Survey of Management | |
or MGMT 301 | Basic Management Concepts | |
| Legal Environment of Business | ||
or BA 243 | Social, Legal, and Ethical Environment of Business | |
| Media Programming Strategies | ||
| Advertising Campaigns | ||
| Public Relations Campaigns | ||
| Entrepreneurship in the Information Age | ||
| International Business Operations | ||
| Undergraduate Field Experience or Practicum | ||
LER 100 | ||
LER 201 | ||
| New Venture Creation | ||
| Invention Commercialization | ||
| Marketing Techniques for Electronic Commerce | ||
| Public Relations and Marketing | ||
| Retailing | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Marketing Research | ||
| Select 6 credits of the following: | 6 | |
| Interpersonal Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Conflict Resolution and Negotiation | ||
| Nonverbal Communication | ||
| Studies in Public Address | ||
| Communication Ethics | ||
| Group Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Organizational Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Organizational Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Intercultural Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Law and Society | ||
| History and Function of Criminal Justice Components | ||
| Law and Society | ||
| Decision Making and Strategy in Economics | ||
| Economics of Labor Markets | ||
| Labor Economics and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Advanced International Trade Theory and Policy | ||
| International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics | ||
| Managerial Economics | ||
| Economics of Law and Regulation | ||
| Economics of the Corporation | ||
| Health Economics | ||
ECON 463 | ||
| Growth and Development | ||
| Advanced Business Writing | ||
| Business and Literature | ||
| Commercial and Technical Translation | ||
| German Business Communication | ||
| Advanced German Business Communications | ||
| The Emergence of Modern America | ||
| America Between the Wars | ||
| Recent American History | ||
| American Environmental History | ||
| History of Work in America | ||
| The Making and Emergence of Modern India | ||
| Modern Japan Since 1800 | ||
| China in Revolution | ||
| Level Four Japanese A | ||
| Level Four Japanese B | ||
LER 400 | ||
LER 401 | ||
| Employment Compensation | ||
| Employee Benefits | ||
LER 426 | ||
LER 434 | ||
LER 437 | ||
LER 444 | ||
LER 458Y | ||
LER 460 | ||
LER 464 | ||
LER 465 | ||
PHIL 406 | ||
| Seminar in Ethical Theory | ||
| Medical and Health Care Ethics | ||
| International Political Economy | ||
| The Bureaucratic State | ||
| Political Parties and Interest Groups | ||
| Globalization and Its Implications | ||
| Government and the Economy | ||
| Politics of Affirmative Action | ||
| Civil Liberties and Due Process | ||
| Selection and Assessment in Organizations | ||
| Work Attitudes and Motivation | ||
| Leadership in Work Settings | ||
| World Population Diversity | ||
| Translation | ||
| Interpretation | ||
| Spanish for Business and International Trade | ||
WMNST 420 | ||
| Work-Life Practices and Policies | ||
Academic Advising
The objectives of the university’s academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their academic goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take advantage of both in-and out-of class educational opportunities in order that they become self-directed learners and decision makers.
Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising relationship succeed. By encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a significant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment will provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.
READ SENATE POLICY 32-00: ADVISING POLICY
University Park
Liberal Arts Academic Advising
814-865-2545
Use the Liberal Arts Majors and Minors web page to see the contact information for the specific adviser(s) of this program
Wilkes-Barre
Theresa Clemente
Program Coordinator, Business
44 University Drive
Dallas, PA 18612
570-675-9293
tmc12@psu.edu
Career Paths
The business minor offers you an excellent opportunity to complement your major program of study and expand your employment and career opportunities upon graduation. Common majors with this minor include Recreation Tourism Management, majors in the College of Communications, Liberal Arts majors such as Economics and Labor Employment Relations.
Careers
- Financial Analysts
- Human Resources Managers
- Personal Financial Advisors
- Management Analysts
- Banking
- Education
- Accounting
- Finance
- Marketing
Contact
University Park
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
202 Pond Lab
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-4597
https://polisci.la.psu.edu/undergraduate/advising/
Wilkes-Barre
44 University Drive
Dallas, PA 18612
570-675-9293
tmc12@psu.edu