Management Minor
Everyone needs management skills. If engineers, scientists, and others hope to advance in their careers, they must learn how to lead projects and manage groups. The Business Minor offers students (other than MG, MGE, or MIS majors, who may take the courses as part of their major or as Breadth or Free Electives, as appropriate) the opportunity to learn some of the theory and practice of managing in organizations with material on management concepts and practices commonly encountered in the business world. This program will help students make a transition to the business world and will provide basic skills for operating effectively in business organizations.
To complete the Business Minor, a student must complete two units of work, typically through course work with the following distribution:
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Select any five from the following:
ECON 1110 OR ECON 1120
BUS 1010 - Leadership Practice
BUS 1020 - Global Environment of Business Decisions
BUS 2020 - The Legal Environment of Business Decisions
BUS 2060 - Financial Statements for Decision Making
BUS 2070 - Risk Analysis for Decision Making
BUS 2080 - Data Analysis for Decision Making
BUS 3010 - Creating Value through Innovation
BUS 3020 - Achieving Effective Operations
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Select one of the following two courses:
BUS 4030 - Achieving Strategic Effectiveness
ETR 4930 - Growing and Managing New Ventures
This minor is not available to students in any Management, Management Engineering, or Management Information Systems major at WPI.
