Minor in Finance (Non-Teaching)
The Finance minor is open to all students, with the exception of students pursuing a business degree with the Finance option. Program objectives include:
- To provide the tools for financial decision making, including time value of money techniques, asset valuation, and capital budgeting analysis
- To develop in students an analytical perspective in problem solving
- To provide flexibility to design one’s own program through choice of electives
*All minors and certificates are open to non-business students. The following applies to business majors:
- the Accounting minor is not available to business students in the Accounting option
- the Finance minor is not available to business students in the Finance option
- the Business Administration minor, the Business Certificate, and the Entrepreneurship Certificate are not available to any business students.
Students cannot pursue a Business Certificate and a Business Administration minor nor an Entrepreneurship Certificate and an Entrepreneurship minor.
In accordance with the Board of Regents' policy, students must earn a C- or better in all courses in a minor or certificate.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge of Business: Students demonstrate a strong working knowledge of fundamental concepts in accounting, finance, management, marketing, information technology, strategy, and law.
- Critical Thinking: Effectively and persuasively assimilate and evaluate information to solve business problems.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Interpret, represent, and evaluate quantitative information and integrate such information into business decisions and recommendations.
- Effective Written Communication: organize ideas, adopt an appropriate tone, employ correct grammar, sentence structure and mechanics, use appropriate vocabulary, and correctly cite sources for facts, quotations and ideas
- Effective Oral Communication: organize ideas, successfully employ technology in support of a message, speak extemporaneously with minimal hesitations and fillers, adopt an appropriate tone, use appropriate vocabulary, employ correct grammar and sentence structure, and manage presentation pacing and timing effectively.
- Ethical Decision Making and Social Responsibility: recognize the ethical and societal implications of proposed actions, employ decision-making tools to evaluate the ethical and societal effects of a variety of options, and make sound decisions in accordance with the analysis and evaluation of options.
Students seeking the Finance minor must complete the following courses:
| ECNS 101IS | Economic Way of Thinking | 3 |
| ECNS 204IS | Microeconomics | 3 |
| BMIS 211 | Data Analytics I | 3 |
| ACTG 201 | Principles of Financial Accounting | 3 |
| Choose one of the following: | 3 | |
| Principles of Managerial Accounting | ||
| Principles of Financial Accounting II | ||
| Production Inventory Cost Analysis | ||
| STAT 216Q | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| or EIND 354 | Engineering Probability and Statistics I | |
| Choose of the following: | 3 | |
| Business Finance | ||
| Engineering Economic Analysis | ||
| Business Fundamentals for Technical Professionals | ||
| Agriculture Finance and Credit Analysis | ||
| Econ Org, Finance & Credit | ||
| BFIN 357 | Financial Markets & Institutions ** | 3 |
| or ECNS 313 | Money and Banking | |
| Choose at least two of the following: | 6 | |
| Financial Statement Analysis | ||
| American Financial Institutions | ||
| Portfolio Management | ||
| Investments | ||
| Real Estate Investment Analysis | ||
| Corporate Finance | ||
| International Finance | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Commercial Bank Management | ||
| Derivative Securities and Risk Management | ||
| Financial Analytics with Python | ||
| Undergrad Research | ||
| Internship | ||
| Total Credits | 30 | |
Students must meet prerequisite requirements of individual courses.
**Students taking ECNS 313 instead of BFIN 357 must take an additional upper-level BFIN course to complete the minor.