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Business Minors and Certificates

Does completing a minor or certificate (or even a second major) make sense for you? While many students complete a second major or multiple minors or certificates in an effort to impress potential employers (and get that job!), this strategy can backfire unless you can articulate why you pursued these multiple avenues. Without a clear rationale for your decision, you may appear indecisive – not a trait that employers are seeking in their new hires.

What steps should you take to decide if completing a second major, minor, or certificate is best for you? Your choice of major(s), minor(s) and/or certificates should enhance your qualifications to pursue your goals. Identifying your goals and the industry and/or career you eventually want to pursue will help you make the important decision about choosing your major, minor or certificate program.

Step One: Self Assessment

How can you decide your goals if you cannot identify your strengths, weaknesses, and values? Use University resources designed to help with this step:

Step Two: Research Potential Industries/Employers of Interest

Attend Student Professional Organization (SPO) meetings to meet other students with similar interests, faculty with industry knowledge, and professionals with experience in an industry of interest.
Use the strategies found on the CSPD site: Explore “What Can You Do With this Major?” on the Career Development web site.

Step Three: Identify Skills

Identify the skills employers are seeking – and choose your major/minor/certificate to enhance your skills, making YOU the most attractive job candidate.

Explore the Fox School majors in your Undergraduate Bulletin that corresponds with your matriculation date – use the bulletin archives if you started before the current year. (Your bulletin/catalog year is listed on your DARS document in OWLnet.)
Explore the Fox School minors and certificates listed below.

Step Four: Develop plan of study

Meet with your academic advisor to see how the credits required for the major(s), minor(s), and/or certificates will fit into your academic program.
Develop your academic plan of study to complete all of your program requirements by your expected graduation date.

Minors Available in Fox

The Fox School of Business and Management offers the following minors that allow undergraduate students to take selected business courses to better prepare themselves for their careers after graduation. Interested students should discuss with their home college advisors how the courses in the minor will fit into their overall degree plan.

Minor	Students Eligible	Benefits of Minor
Business Minor Requirements	Non-Business Only	1. Understand basic business foundations 2. Prepare for graduate study in business
General Business Studies Minor Requirements	Non-Business Only	1. Appreciate business studies 2. More broad-based and less quantitative than other business minors
Accounting Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Understand basic business foundations 2. Understand financial statements and the accountant's role in the management of a company
Corporate Social Responsibility Minor Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Understand how to incorporate economics, the environment and social responsibility into corporate descision-making 2. Put theory into practice with placement in a community organization practicing sustainability
Economics Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Understand basic business foundations 2. Learn how the impact of economics affects public and personal issues
Entertainment Law and Business Requirements	Business Only	1. Understand special legal issues confronting the entertainment industry from a business perspective 2. Integrate appropriate knowledge and skills to progress into a management career in the entertainment sector
Entrepreneurship Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Understand basic business foundations 2. Learn how to create or manage a successful entrepreneurial business
Digital Marketing Minor Requirements All students must complete declaration form and meet with Dr. Michael Smith to declare or rescind this minor	Business Only	1. Expand career options - Digital marketing is creating new and emerging multidisciplinary occupations 2. Develop skills demanded in the market - expand the breadth and depth of exposure to digital applications
Finance Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Understand principles of finance and their application to financial issues faced by decision-makers 2. helpful to students majoring in Account, marketing, real Estate, and Risk Management
Healthcare Management Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Develop value-added skills for students who aim to understand the structure, policy, finance and strategy/operations issues of healthcare organizations (applicable to business, pre-health, social science, science or liberal arts majors) 2. Required courses cannot be taken concurrently so a minimum of 3 semesters is required to complete this minor 3. Students interested in this minor should contact the Program Director: Dr. Eric Keuffel: hcm.minor@temple.edu
Human Resource for Legal Studies Requirements	Legal Studies Majors Only	1. Understand legal repercussions of employment and human resource issues 2. Issues can include regulations regarding hiring and firing, injuries on business premises, labor and management relations
Information Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Requirements	Business Only	1. Integrate the drive of entrepreneurial thinking with the enabling role of information technology
Legal Studies Requirements	Business Only	1. Identify and understand legal issues that impact business and personal decisions 2. Develop skills sought in Law School: how to read cases and statutes, do legal research, and make and legal argument
Legal Studies for Human Resource Managers Requirements	Human Resource Management Majors Only	1. Prepare human resource professionals for the legal issues faced in the workplace 2. Issues can include hiring, disciplining and terminating employees, training and coaching, restructuring, outsourcing, and employee benefits
MIS Requirements All students must complete declaration form and meet with the senior program specialist in Speakman Hall 210 to declare	Business or Non-Business	1. Develop basic business and technology foundations 2. Learn how to integrate technology in the context of your major
Marketing Requirements	Business Only	1. Expand career options through a general knowledge of marketing principles 2. Specialize in an area of marketing
Statistics Requirements	Business or Non-Business	1. Enhance career opportunities with the ability to analyze data 2. Ideal for all business majors including Actuarial Science, Finance, Human Resources, marketing, and MIS

Declare or Rescind any of these minors, except for Digital Marketing or MIS, by completing this form and contacting Fox Advising Center to meet with an academic advisor.

Certificates

Certificate	Students Eligible	Benefits of Minor
Asian business & Society Declare this certificate	Business or Non-Business	Develop international business, area studies, cultural understanding, and language skills through interdisciplinary study
Business Basics	Non-Matriculated Only	Explore basic business foundation courses Courses will apply toward BBA degree if matriculate
Business Plus	Non-Matriculated Only	Countinue to explore business foundation courses Courses will apply toward BBA degree if matriculate
Entrepreneurship All eligible students must complete declaration form and meet with an advisor in Speakman Hall 101 to declare	Students of Communications & Theater, Engineering, Science & Technology	Develop entrepreneurial career paths for students across the university
Latin American Studies and Spanish for Business Declare This Certificate	Business or Non-Business	Develop international business, area studies, cultural understanding, and language skills through interdisciplinary study
Leadership Requirements All students must complete declaration form and meet with an advisor in Speakman Hall 101 to declare	Business	Develops enhanced interpersonal and technical competencies for conflict management, negotiation, organizational communication, and team leadership.
Management Information Systems (MIS) All students must complete declaration form and meet with the senior program specialist in Speakman Hall 210 to declare	Non-Business	Learn to identify, select, and evaluate technology solutions for business problems. Become a knowledgeable user of IT and the person in an organization who can successfully interact with technology professionals
People First Declare this certificate on your graduation application *Beginning Fall 2012, we are replacing this option with the new Fox Leadership Certificate	Business	Enhance management skills with people-oriented perspective