Overview

Offered by the Fox School of Business and Management, the Minor in General Business Studies is designed for undergraduate degree-seeking students outside the Fox School of Business and Management who are interested in a less quantitatively-focused business minor. The minor provides non-business students with an overview of some critical business areas and allows students the flexibility to select electives to explore interested areas of business. It is designed to enhance students' readiness for work in business or other organizations after graduation and increase their professional marketability.

Campus Locations: Main, Japan, and Online

Contact Information

Main Campus

Chuck Allen, Associate Vice Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Alter Hall, Room 369
callen@temple.edu

Temple Japan Campus

Students interested in more information or declaring this minor should contact the TUJ Academic Advising Center (AAC), aac@tuj.temple.edu, Room 102, TUJ Building.

Requirements

• Please note that some courses may have additional prerequisites, especially in the Foundation area. Students are encouraged to view course descriptions before selecting.
• Eight courses required (five of these courses must be taken at Temple University):

  Course List

  Code	Title	Credit Hours
  Foundation
  ECON 1101	Macroeconomic Principles	3
  HRM 1101	Leadership and Organizational Management	3
  ACCT 2103	Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making	3-4
  or ACCT 2501	Survey of Accounting
  MKTG 2101	Marketing Management	3
  RMI 2501	Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning	3
  Electives
  Select three of the following:		9
  ACCT 3511	Intermediate Accounting I
  BA 1103	Legal and Ethical Reasoning in Business
  BA 2501	Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Visualizing Data
  ECON 1102	Microeconomic Principles
  ECON 3503	Introduction to Econometrics
  ECON 3519	Game Theory and Strategic Behavior
  ECON 3538	Managerial Economics
  HCM 3501	Introduction to Health Services Systems (Fall 7A only)
  HCM 3502	Healthcare Financing and Information Technology (Fall 7B only)
  HCM 4596	Healthcare Quality and Risk Management (Spring only)
  HRM 2501	Introduction to Human Resource Management
  HRM 2511	Corporate Sustainability: People, Profits & Planet
  HRM 3501	Power, Influence and Negotiation
  HRM 3502	Leading People at Work
  HRM 3503	Communicating in Organizations
  HRM 3504	Leadership in the 21st Century
  HRM 3580	Special Topics - Human Resource Management
  IB 2501	Fundamentals of Asian Business
  or ASST 2511	Introduction to Asian Business
  IB/LAS 2502	Fundamentals of Latin American Business
  IB 2503	Fundamentals of European Business
  LGLS 1112	Law for Business
  or LGLS 1102	Law of Contracts
  LGLS 3580	Special Topics - Law
  MIS 2101	Digital Systems
  MIS 2502	Data and Analytics
  MIS 3406	Cloud Architecture
  MIS 3538	Social Media Innovation
  MKTG 3501	Integrated Marketing Communications
  MKTG 3504	Professional Selling and Sales Management
  MKTG 3508	Digital Marketing
  MKTG 3580	Special Topics - Marketing
  RE 3501	Real Estate Fundamentals
  RE 3502	Real Estate Practice
  RMI 2101	Introduction to Risk Management
  SCM 3505	Lean Six Sigma in Supply Chain Management
  SCM 3515	Principles of Supply Chain Management
  SCM 3516	Transportation and Logistics Management
  STAT 2103	Statistical Business Analytics (or STAT 2101)
  STAT 2521	Data Analysis and Statistical Computing
  STAT 2522	Survey Design and Sampling
  STAT 2523	Design of Experiments and Quality Control
  SGM 3501	Entrepreneurial and Innovative Thinking
  SGM 3511	Doing Well by Doing Good: Where Innovation and Entrepreneurship Meet Social Impact
  Total Credit Hours		24-25

• Minimum grade of C- is required in Foundation courses.
• A grade point average of 2.0 in the minor is required.
• Courses cannot be used to meet minor requirements if already used to meet the requirements for a major or a different minor or certificate.
• Courses for the minor must be completed prior to graduation; if completed, the minor will be recorded on the final transcript upon graduation.
• HCM 3501 and HCM 3502 are only offered in Fall 7A and Fall 7B terms, respectively; HCM 4596 is only offered as a 14-week course in Spring term.
• To declare or rescind this minor, visit the Fox School of Business and Management.
• Foundation courses can be completed 100% online. Many, but not all, of the electives are online.

Interested students should discuss with their home college advisors how the courses in the minor will fit into their overall degree plan and are strongly encouraged to declare the minor early in their academic career.