Marketing Minor

Effective beginning Miami entry First Semester 2005-2006
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Minor in Marketing

Marketing is a core business function that consists of activities that facilitate mutually beneficial exchange processes. Contemporary organizations require employees with broad perspectives, who understand cross-functional integration to facilitate adaptation to the accelerated change taking place within society. To this end, the minor in Marketing provides undergraduate students from other majors the opportunity to complement their major area of interest.

The minor in Marketing provides an opportunity for students to gain knowledge of the theory and practice of marketing. Because marketing is the major boundary spanning and most externally focused function within business, students who minor in marketing have the opportunity to gain an appreciation of what it takes to be successful in the modern business environment and in contemporary markets. This appreciation will make students better business practitioners and citizens no matter what their primary functional area of expertise.

Program Requirements

  1. Take a total of 23 credit hours.
  2. Take the following required courses:
    • ECO 201 (3) Principles of Microeconomics
    • MGT 111 (3) Introduction to Business (for non-business majors only)
    • MKT 291 (3) Principles of Marketing
    • MKT 315 or 405 (3) Creating Customer Value through Marketing
    • MKT 325 (4) Consumer Behavior
  3. Take one of the following statistics courses:
    • DSC 205 (4) Business Statistics
    • STA 261 (4) Statistics
    • STA 301 (3) Applied Statistics
    • STA 368 (4) Introduction to Statistics
  4. Take one of the following marketing electives:
    • MKT 415 (4) Marketing to Organizations
    • MKT 425 (4) Global Marketing
    • MKT 435 (4) Branding and Integrated Marketing Communications

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