Contents
Catalog Links
Share

Professional Minors

Professional minors are intended to give students additional career options, a competitive edge in the job market, and an opportunity to shape their Stevenson experience to meet their specific career goals. Each of Stevenson’s five professional minors described below consists of four courses tied to a specific industry/profession: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, Human Resources, Management and Organizational Leadership, Real Estate, and Software Design and Coding. Professional minors can be paired with many different majors but were designed particularly for students in majors that do not have a pre-determined career path.

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development*

Prepares students to understand the skills and commitment required to start a new venture or build a small business; to organize and write a complete successful business plan that can be used to start a new business and apply for venture capital; and to set appropriate marketing objectives for small business growth.

  • MGT 224: Principles of Entrepreneurship (Fall and Spring)

  • MGT 324: Entrepreneurial Business Planning (Fall or Spring)

  • MGT 424: Entrepreneurial Development (Fall or Spring)

  • MKT 330: Strategic Marketing for Entrepreneurship (Fall or Spring)

Human Resources*

Provides a foundation for careers in the human resources industry through the study of workforce development, compensation and planning, and employee relations. 

  • MGT 318: Human Resource Management
  • MGT 320: Compensation and Benefits
  • MGT 321: Employee Training and Development
  • INBUS/MGT 347: International Human Resources

Management and Organizational Leadership*

Provides a foundation in business management through the study of management fundamentals, employee relations, and organization leadership.

  • LAW 325: Employment Law (Fall or Spring, as needed)

  • MGT 310: Organizational Behavior (Fall and Spring)

  • MGT 340: Organizational Leadership (Spring)

  • MGT 318: Human Resource Management (Fall)

Real Estate

Provides instruction in the basics of the real estate industry and offers core skills for entry-level work in the fields of commercial real estate and development. 

 

  • REA 300: Principles of Real Estate
  • REA 310: Property and Asset Management
  • REA 320: Commercial Real EstateTransactions
  • REA 400: Real Estate Market Analysis, Valuation and Finance

Software Design and Coding

Provides a foundation in information systems to prepare students to perform industry-specific IT tasks in the workplace through the study of programming and technology infrastructures.

  • IS 135: MS Office Applications (Fall and Spring)
  • IS 201: Management Information Systems (Fall and Spring)
  • IS 240: Programming Concept (Fall and Spring)
  • IS 241: C# Object Oriented Programming (Spring)

*Due to curricular overlap, students who are majoring in business administration are not permitted to pursue this professional minor.

 

Up one level