Naveen Jindal School of Management
Minors
Students must take a minimum of 18 semester credit hours for the minor, 12 of which must be upper-division semester credit hours. Students who take a minor will be expected to meet the normal prerequisites in courses making up the minor, and should maintain a minimum GPA of 2.000 on a 4.00 scale (C average). Semester credit hours may not be used to satisfy both the major and minor requirements; however, free elective semester credit hours or major preparatory classes may be used to satisfy the minor. Students must meet all course prerequisites.
The minors in the Naveen Jindal School of Management are the following:
- Accounting
- Business Administration
- Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Energy Management
- Finance
- Healthcare Management
- Human Resource Management
- Information Technology and Systems
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Insurance
- Marketing
- Retail Innovation
- Supply Chain Management
Minor in Accounting
18 semester credit hours
ACCT 3331 Intermediate Financial Accounting I
ACCT 3332 Intermediate Financial Accounting II
ACCT 3341 Cost Management Systems
ACCT 3350 Fundamentals of Taxation
ACCT 4334 Auditing
or ACCT 4336 Financial Statement Analysis
Plus, one upper-division ACCT elective (a 3 semester credit hour 3000-level or 4000-level ACCT course)
Minor in Business Administration
18 semester credit hours
BCOM 3300 Business Communication
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
or OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
And an additional 6 semester credit hours of upper-division JSOM coursework as approved by the program director1
1. Students may not double count courses for both their major and their minor; thus, additional electives may need to be added.
Minor in Business Intelligence and Analytics
18 semester credit hours
ITSS 4300 Database Fundamentals
or CS 4347 Database Systems
ITSS 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence
ITSS 4352 Introduction to Web Analytics
ITSS 4353 Business Analytics
OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
Also choose one course from the following:
ITSS 4354 Advanced Big Data Analytics
ITSS 4355 Data Visualization
Minor in Energy Management
18 semester credit hours
Choose 4 courses from the following:
ENGY 3301 Managing Carbon Assets: Oil, Gas, and Coal
ENGY 3302 Managing Power and Renewable Energy Assets; Sustainability
ENGY 3340 Energy Law and Contracts
ENGY 4313 Energy Finance
MECO 4342 Financial and Business Negotiation Analysis
Also choose 2 courses from the following:
GEOS 1303 Physical Geology
MECO 3330 Energy Economics
or ENGY 3330 Energy Economics
MKT 3340 Marketing Research
OPRE 4330 Global Logistics and Inventory Management
Minor in Finance
18 semester credit hours
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
FIN 3320 Business Finance
FIN 3390 Introduction to Financial Modeling
And an additional 9 semester credit hours to be selected from upper-division finance courses listed as options under the finance degree.
Minor in Healthcare Management
18 semester credit hours
HMGT 3301 Introduction to Healthcare Management
HMGT 3310 Healthcare Regulatory Environment
HMGT 3311 Healthcare Financial Analysis
HMGT 3320 Economics of Healthcare Environment
or ECON 3330 Economics of Health
HMGT 4321 Introduction to Healthcare Information Systems
An additional 3 semester credit hours to be selected from the remaining upper-division JSOM courses not previously taken.
Minor in Human Resource Management
18 semester credit hours
BLAW 3301 Employment Law
OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
OBHR 4310 Business Ethics
OBHR 4331 Compensation and Benefits Administration
OBHR 4333 Performance Management
OBHR 4334 Talent Acquisition and Management
OBHR 4335 Training and Development
OBHR 4336 Labor and Employee Relations
OBHR 4350 Introduction to Leading and Managing
OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
OBHR 4354 Leading Organizational Change
OBHR 4356 Power and Influence in Organizations
Minor in Information Technology and Systems
18 semester credit hours
ITSS 3312 Object-Oriented Programming2
or ITSS 4381 Object Oriented Programming with Python
ITSS 4300 Database Fundamentals
ITSS 4330 Systems Analysis and Design
ITSS 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence
ITSS 4360 Network and Information Security
ITSS 4370 Information Technology Infrastructure
2. Students who have completed CS 1337 with a C or better may replace ITSS 3312 with an additional ITSS upper-division course (excluding ITSS 4301).
Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
18 semester credit hours
ENTP 3301 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
And 9 semester credit hours to be selected from:
ENTP 3360 Entrepreneurial Finance
or FIN 3360 Entrepreneurial Finance
ENTP 4311 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Business Models
ENTP 4320 Small Business Management
or ENTP 4350 Corporate Entrepreneurship
With an additional 3 semester credit hours to be selected from the remaining ENTP courses not previously taken:
ENTP 3320 Start-up Launch I
or ENTP 3321 Start-up Launch II
ENTP 4330 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
ENTP 4360 Innovation and Creativity
ENTP 4V00 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
or ENTP 4V90 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Internship
ENTP 4398 Venture Capital Seed Fund
ENTP 4399 Lean Innovation for Public Services
Minor in Insurance
18 semester credit hours
MKT 3330 Introduction to Professional Selling
FIN 3305 Real Estate Principles
or REAL 3305 Real Estate Principles
RMIS 3370 Principles of Risk Management and Insurance
or FIN 3370 Principles of Risk Management and Insurance
RMIS 4331 Business Liability Risk Management and Insurance
RMIS 4332 Commercial Property Risk Management and Insurance
RMIS 4333 Enterprise Risk Management
RMIS 4334 Insurance Law and Contracts
RMIS 4336 Risk Systems and Theories
RMIS 4338 Foundations of Risk Analytics and Applications
Minor in Marketing
18 semester credit hours
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
MKT 3330 Introduction to Professional Selling
MKT 3340 Marketing Research
MKT 4330 Digital and Internet Marketing
With an additional 6 semester credit hours to be selected from:
MKT 3331 Principles of Category Management
MKT 4331 Digital Prospecting
MKT 4332 Advanced Professional Sales
MKT 4335 Category Buying
MKT 4336 E-Retailing
MKT 4337 Marketing Analytics
MKT 4338 Marketing Content Creation
MKT 4339 AI-Driven Content Creation and Campaign Management
MKT 4340 Consumer Behavior
MKT 4341 Predictive Analytics
MKT 4350 Advertising
MKT 4360 Social Impact Marketing
MKT 4370 Marketing Projects
MKT 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Marketing
MKT 4V83 Individual Study in Marketing
MKT 4V90 Marketing Internship
Minor in Retail Innovation
18 semester credit hours
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
MKT 3331 Principles of Category Management
MKT 4336 E-Retailing
MKT 4333 Retail Operations
or OPRE 4345 Retail Operations
With an additional 6 semester credit hours to be selected from:
MKT 3330 Introduction to Professional Selling
MKT 4331 Digital Prospecting
MKT 4335 Category Buying
MKT 4337 Marketing Analytics
or OPRE 4337 Marketing Analytics
MKT 4338 Marketing Content Creation
MKT 4339 AI-Driven Content Creation and Campaign Management
MKT 4340 Consumer Behavior
MKT 4350 Advertising
MKT 4360 Social Impact Marketing
MKT 4370 Marketing Projects
MKT 4V83 Individual Study in Marketing
MKT 4V90 Marketing Internship
Minor in Supply Chain Management
18 semester credit hours
OPRE 3320 Integrated Supply Chain Management
OPRE 3330 Project Management
OPRE 4310 Lean and Six Sigma Processes
OPRE 4330 Global Logistics and Inventory Management
OPRE 4340 Purchasing and Sourcing Management
Plus, one of the following three courses:
OPRE 4320 Integrated SCM Information Systems
OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics
OPRE 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Supply Chain Management