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General

Requirements

Major Dependent Concentration(s)

Program Requirements

Powerful programs and a strong student-centered education that merges experiential learning with innovative thinking, technology and hands-on applications mean Oakland University business students can take advantage of incomparable opportunities to practice business and leadership skills within and beyond the classroom. No matter which major is the stepping-stone to your future, you will gain a comprehensive overview in the business foundations and specifics of your chosen field.

Required Courses

  • course Financial Accounting (4) 
    or course Survey of Accounting (4) 

  • course Economics in Today’s World (4) 
    or course Introduction to the Global Economy (4) 
    or course Principles of Macroeconomics (4) 
    or course Principles of Microeconomics (4) 
    or course Principles of Global Macroeconomics (4) 

Elective Courses - Choose 4

  • course Developing New Venture Ideas (3)

  • course  Survey of Finance (3)

  • course Survey of Management (3)
    or course Introduction to Organizational Behavior (3)

  • course Contemporary World Business (4)

  • course Legal Environment of Business (3)

  • course Negotiations & Deal-Making (3)

  • course Survey of Management Information Systems (3)
    or course Management Information Systems (3)

  • course Survey of Marketing (3)

  • course Survey of Operations Management (3)

     

    Note: Students who have completed course before declaring a Business minor can substitute the course for the course Elective Course.

Additional Requirements

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To earn this minor, and to take 3000 and 4000 level business classes, non-business students must meet with the minor coordinator and have an approved Minor Authorization Form detailing the courses and the prerequisites required for the given minor. Once approved for the minor, students must take all the remaining courses in the minor at Oakland University. Students must complete the prescribed courses for the minor with a grade of C or better in each course and the prerequisites for each course. Transfer students planning to earn a minor must earn at least 9 credits toward the minor at Oakland University; at least 6 of these 9 credits must be in courses at the 3000 level or above.

Applicable Majors

All Majors can declare this Minor with the exception of the following Major(s): Accounting, Business Actuarial Science, Business Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Ops Management, Pre-Business, and Undecided Business.