Business Minors

MINORS FOR BUSINESS MAJORS

Business students may select any of the minors that are available through the College of Humanities + Natural Sciences, the College of Music + Fine Arts, or the College of Social Sciences. Courses required for the minor will be counted as non-business electives toward fulfillment of the business curriculum. Upon completion of the non-business elective courses, nine additional hours from the minor may be applied to the business elective portion of the curriculum. Further information about specific requirements may be obtained in the College of Business office of student records and admissions.

Additionally, the college offers the following business minors for students with a business major: 

Accounting

International Business

* Must have international focus (e.g. HIST A220, Latin America Studies)

Legal Studies

* Must include at least 1 of these courses.

** See Communications bulletin for prerequisites.

MINORS FOR NON-BUSINESS MAJORS

Because business is an essential and unavoidable part of society, many students in non-business majors find that additional training in the business disciplines is of benefit to them in their career in music, fine art, education, science, or the humanities.

The College of Business offers the following business minors to all Loyola students:

Business

The psychologist who goes into private practice will soon discover that he or she is running a business. Drama majors will quickly learn that the theater is a business operation. The business minor is designed to provide a basic understanding of business functions to succeed in these and other areas.

The business minor consists of the following courses:

Economics

Economics is a study of human behavior and decision making. More specifically, economics is a way of thinking about human action and about how and why individuals make the choices which they make. The basic and enduring strength of economics is that it provides a logical, ordered way of looking at various problems and issues.

The economics minor consists of the following courses:

Marketing

The marketing minor is designed for students with majors in disciplines outside business who will benefit in their future careers from a knowledge of the principles of marketing. The minor emphasizes decision-making within the framework of the total marketing process for people in such areas as advertising, communications, music, law, political science, public affairs, and psychology.

The marketing minor consists of the following courses:

Pre-M.B.A.

The pre-M.B.A. minor introduces the student to the functional areas of business and the basic tools of business analysis. In addition, the pre-M.B.A. minor provides the student with 5 of the 6 foundation courses required for the M.B.A. program at Loyola. The student with a pre-M.B.A. minor can waive these courses and begin immediately with M.B.A. core courses.

The pre-M.B.A. minor consists of the following courses:

* A grade of B or higher must be earned in each course in order to waive the equivalent graduate course.

** Both ECON B200 and ECON B201 must be taken in order to waive the M.B.A. ECON B603 requirement.