Computer Applications in Business (9 credits)
This minor is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business to be competent end users and decision makers in a computer information systems environment. The focus is on using microcomputers and higher-level applications software to implement useful applications in a wide range of business areas. |
Required Courses Choose any three courses (9 credits) from the list of 3000, 4000, or 5000 level CIS courses
except CIS 3270, CIS 3810 and CIS 4910.
Prerequisites must be satisfied. |
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Cybersecurity and Information Assurance (9 credits)
This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic understanding of information security and assurance issues that organizations face today and the potential solutions available. |
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| Networks and Telecommunications I | 3 credits |
| Cybersecurity | 3 credits |
| Information Technology Audit | 3 credits |
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Data Analytics (9 credits)
This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic data literacy and to integrate techniques and solutions from the areas of technology, statistics, and quantitative modeling in developing business intelligence to facilitate organizational decision-making |
| Required Courses (6 credits) |
| / | Data Mining for Business Analytics | 3 credits |
| Programming for Analytics | 3 credits |
| Elective Courses (3 credits) - Choose one course from the following list. |
| Database Management Systems I | 3 credits |
| Data Visualization | 3 credits |
| Data Warehousing for Analytics | 3 credits |
| Business Statistics II | 3 credits |
| Regression and Forecasting Models for Business Applications | 3 credits |
| Marketing Web Analytics and Intelligence | 3 credits |
| Marketing Analytics | 3 credits* |
| OR | Management Science* Quantitative Decision Making for Business I* | 3 credits 3 credits |
| * Students receiving credit for MGT 3500 will not also receive credit for OPR 3450. |
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Quantitative Methods and Modeling (9 credits) The minor in quantitative methods and modeling is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business with a background of quantitative skills that facilitate the decisionmaking process. In addition to one required course, two elective courses are selected with the approval of the area advisor to complement the students major and provide the student with an appropriate background. |
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Discipline | OPRQuantitative Decision Making for Business I | 3 credits | | or | |
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Discipline | OPRQuantitative Methods for Accounting | 3 credits |
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Database Management Systems I | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber |
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Object-Oriented Programming II | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber |
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Quantitative Decision Making for Business II | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber | DisciplineOPR | System Simulation | 3 credits |
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Discipline | OPRBayesian Statistical Inference and Decision Making | 3 credits | | -v | Discipline | OPR
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Special Topics in Operations Research | 3 credits | | -v |
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Discipline | OPRIndependent Study in Operations Research | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber |
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Business Statistics II | 3 credits | | -v |
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Discipline | STARegression and Forecasting Models for Business Applications | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber |
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Introduction to SAS Programming | 3 credits | Other quantitative courses may be selected subject to approval of the area advisor. |
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Statistics
The minor in statistics consists of the courses listed below. |
Required Courses 3 credits |
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Elective Courses 6 credits Two courses selected from the following: |
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Quantitative Decision Making for Business I | 3 credits | | -v |
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Discipline | STAIntermediate Statistical Methods | 3 credits | | -v |
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Discipline | STASampling Theory and Practice | 3 credits | | -v | CourseNumber | DisciplineSTA | Introduction to SAS Programming | 3 credits |
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Special Special Topics in Applied Statistics | 3 credits | Return to Minors
Liberal Arts Interdisciplinary Minor in Information Technology and Social Responsibility The internet age has fostered an environment of widespread interconnectedness. This hyperconnectivity, and the new media that proliferate along with it, come with their own specific problems. The purpose of this concentration is to study the effects of these new technologies on the individual, the workplace, and society at large. In this program of study students will examine the increasing importance of individual and organizational social responsibility in today’s interconnected and computer-mediated environment, as well as the specific issues that stand at the intersection of social responsibility and information technology. |
Required Course: 3 credits |
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Information Technology and Social Responsibility* | 3 credits |
Elective Courses 6 credits Two courses selected from the following: |
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Discipline | BLSMass Media and the Black American | 3 credits | | -v |
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Business Minors for Non-Business Majors
Students in the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences or in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs who wish to take business courses may do so by declaring a minor in statistics and quantitative modeling or in technology, business, and the Internet. Before declaring the minor, they must complete either BUS 1001 (1 credit) or have previously completed BUS 1011 (3 credits). To be awarded the minor, students must have a GPA of 2.0 or more in the courses included in the minor. Eligibility to declare such a minor is restricted to students who have an overall GPA of 2.0 or more at time they declare the minor. Courses that apply to the minor may not be used for any other requirement. This minor does not fulfill the requirement to complete a liberal arts minor. |
