Business Administration, Minor

The Minor in Business Administration has the following features and requirements:

1. The Business Minor consists of 5 courses. There are 4 required courses and one elective. The elective course may be any upper-division Business course. A student must meet the prerequisites to be eligible to take the chosen upper-division Business course. The 5 courses are:
   
   BUS 230A - Financial Accounting     
   
   BUS 344 - Organizational Behavior  
   
   BUS 360 - Introduction to Marketing   
   
   BUS 370 - Introduction to Managerial Finance 
   
   Upper-division Business elective
   
    
2. The Business Minor must consist of a minimum of 20 units in Business Administration and must be approved by the chair of the Business Administration department. 
   
    
3. The student must have a minimum GPA of 2.50 in order to apply for the Business Minor.
   
    
4. Students must complete a Business Minor Declaration Form and submit it to the Business Administration department office.
   
    
5. Students must take BUS 230A  in their first semester of business courses and earn a grade of C or better.
   
    
6. BUS 344 , BUS 360 , BUS 370 , and the upper-division Business elective must be completed at Sonoma State University.
   
    
7. Business Minor students will usually take only one of the above courses per semester. However, students are allowed to take two business courses in one semester subject to seat availability.
   
    
8. Students who are eligible to take BUS 344 , BUS 360 , and BUS 370  , or the elective course must submit a Request to Take an Upper-Division Business Administration Course form to the School of Business and Economics Office. The student will then be given a permission number in order to be allowed to register for the course.
   
    
9. Contract courses such as BUS 399, BUS 495 and BUS 499 may not be taken as the Minor elective.