Business and the Liberal Arts, Minor

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

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).

Course List

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
BA 302	Supply Chains
or SCM 301	Supply Chain Management
BA 303	Marketing
or MKTG 221	Contemporary American Marketing
or MKTG 301	Principles of Marketing
BA 304	Management and Organization
or MGMT 100	Survey of Management
or MGMT 301	Basic Management Concepts
BLAW 243	Legal Environment of Business
or BA 243	Social, Legal, and Ethical Environment of Business
COMM 385	Media Programming Strategies
COMM 424	Advertising Campaigns
COMM 473	Public Relations Campaigns
COMM 493	Entrepreneurship in the Information Age
IB 303	International Business Operations
LA 495	Undergraduate Field Experience or Practicum
LER 100
LER 201
MGMT 425	New Venture Creation
MGMT 426	Invention Commercialization
MKTG 302	Marketing Techniques for Electronic Commerce
MKTG 310	Public Relations and Marketing
MKTG 327	Retailing
MKTG 330	Consumer Behavior
MKTG 342	Marketing Research
Select 6 credits of the following:		6
CAS 403	Interpersonal Communication Theory and Research
CAS 404	Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
CAS 470	Nonverbal Communication
CAS 475	Studies in Public Address
CAS 426W	Communication Ethics
CAS 450W	Group Communication Theory and Research
CAS 452	Organizational Communication Theory and Research
CAS 452W	Organizational Communication Theory and Research
CAS 471	Intercultural Communication Theory and Research
CRIM 467	Law and Society
CRIMJ 460	History and Function of Criminal Justice Components
CRIMJ 467	Law and Society
ECON 402	Decision Making and Strategy in Economics
ECON 410	Economics of Labor Markets
ECON 412	Labor Economics and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
ECON 428	Environmental Economics
ECON 433	Advanced International Trade Theory and Policy
ECON 434	International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
ECON 442	Managerial Economics
ECON 443	Economics of Law and Regulation
ECON 444	Economics of the Corporation
ECON 445	Health Economics
ECON 463
ECON 471	Growth and Development
ENGL 419	Advanced Business Writing
ENGL 460	Business and Literature
FR 409	Commercial and Technical Translation
GER 308Y	German Business Communication
GER 408	Advanced German Business Communications
HIST 445	The Emergence of Modern America
HIST 446	America Between the Wars
HIST 447	Recent American History
HIST 453	American Environmental History
HIST 458Y	History of Work in America
HIST 475Y	The Making and Emergence of Modern India
HIST 481	Modern Japan Since 1800
HIST 486	China in Revolution
JAPNS 403Y	Level Four Japanese A
JAPNS 404	Level Four Japanese B
LER 400
LER 401
LER 424	Employment Compensation
LER 425	Employee Benefits
LER 426
LER 434
LER 437
LER 444
LER 458Y
LER 460
LER 464
LER 465
PHIL 406
PHIL 418	Seminar in Ethical Theory
PHIL 432	Medical and Health Care Ethics
PLSC 412	International Political Economy
PLSC 419	The Bureaucratic State
PLSC 426	Political Parties and Interest Groups
PLSC 440	Globalization and Its Implications
PLSC 444	Government and the Economy
PLSC 445Y	Politics of Affirmative Action
PLSC 474	Civil Liberties and Due Process
PSYCH 482	Selection and Assessment in Organizations
PSYCH 484	Work Attitudes and Motivation
PSYCH 485	Leadership in Work Settings
SOC 422	World Population Diversity
SPAN 412	Translation
SPAN 413	Interpretation
SPAN 420	Spanish for Business and International Trade
WMNST 420
WMNST 472	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/

https://polisci.la.psu.edu/

Wilkes-Barre

44 University Drive
Dallas, PA 18612
570-675-9293
tmc12@psu.edu