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					| 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
 Marketing, Minor  |  
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													| About the Minor
 The minor in Marketing is designed to provide majors outside of the SGB with an overview of the marketing discipline. It will enable students to explore various career options within the field of marketing and to use the discipline knowledge to further their career goals within their major. This background is useful for students who will be working in organizational settings, regardless of their majors but might be of particular interest to students pursuing a major in Media & Communication, Psychology, BFA in Studio art with a Graphic Design concentration, etc. or any other majors who might be interested in being entrepreneurs.Requirements
 (24 credits as listed below)Two courses in Business Administration
 BA 340   Principles of Marketing * Students need grade of C or better in BA 340 to be able to enroll in BA 445 BA 445   Marketing StrategyOne course in Economics
 EC 211   Principles of MicroeconomicsThree additional courses from one of the Tracks below:
 Students are required to choose one of the two tracks for ALL three courses (i.e, they choose all three courses from one of the tracks). It is to be noted that courses in the Analytical Marketing track are considerably more demanding on students’ quantitative abilities.General Marketing Track
 BA 341   Advertising and Sales Promotion BA 344   International MarketingOne additional 300 level course to be taken in consultation with the advisor for the Minor in Marketing
 BA 343   Agriculture and Food Marketing BA 347   Sport Marketing BA 361   Managing Social Media CM 303   New Media Marketing** CM 411   Crisis Communication** SPM 381   Consumer Behavior in Sport*** Any other appropriate course as approved by the advisor for the Minor in Marketing   *Students need a grade of C or better in BA340 to be able to enroll in BA445 **Primarily intended for students majoring in Media and Communications ***SPM261 is a prerequisiteAnalytical Marketing Track
 BA 348   Marketing Research MA 141   Elementary StatisticsOne additional course to be taken in consultation with the advisor for the Minor in Marketing
 AN 250   Ethnographic Methods  CS 222 Introduction to Python for Data Science CS 277   Introduction to Data Mining MA 242   Intermediate Statistics BA 353  Business analytics Any other appropriate course as approved by the advisor for the Minor in Marketing |   Return to: Programs A-Z
 
 
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