The Business and Entrepreneurship minor teaches you to recognize business opportunities, equips you with skills to secure funding, and provides insight on how to manage the commercialization of the business opportunity. Fundamental business classes are combined with those designed to specifically address the challenges of launching a new venture or an idea within an existing organization. With an innovative curriculum taught by dedicated professors, the Business and Entrepreneurial minor provides a fundamental stepping stone on the road to identifying and commercializing business opportunities in any type of organization.
Required
BA 215. Money and Investment: Manager, Lender, Investor Viewpoint (4)
BA 260. Introduction to Entrepreneurship (4)
BA 351. Managing Organizations (4)
BA 360. Introduction to Financial Management (4)
BA 390. Marketing (4)
ECON 201. *Introduction to Microeconomics (4)
Elective: Select one of the following courses
BA 230. Business Law I (4)
BA 440. Corporate Finance (4)
BA 442. Investments (4)
BA 452. Leadership and Team Building (4)
BA 453. Human Resources Management (4)
BA 460. Venture Management (4)
BA 463. Family Business Management (4)
BA 467/ENGR 467. New Venture Laboratory (4)
BA 492. Consumer Behavior (4)
BA 495. Retail Management (4)
BA 497. Global Marketing (4)
Total=28
In order to be declared a minor and earn the minor upon graduation, students must meet all of the following:
- Earn a minimum of C– in each of their minor and prerequisite courses (all courses must be taken A–F grading)
- Complete over 50% of their minor with OSU credits
- Have minimum 2.5 GPA (OSU grades) in all required minor course work and in all other completed BA course work
- Have an OSU and cumulative OSU GPA of at least 2.0
Interested students must attend an orientation before they can declare the minor.
For further information, please contact the Office of Student Services, 214 Bexell Hall, 541-737-3716.
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