Students with an interest in business law are encouraged to take the business law minor in addition to the liberal arts concentration used to satisfy the liberal arts minor requirement. To satisfy the business law minor, students may choose any three courses (9 credits) from the 3000-level courses offered by the Law Department offerings (subject to satisfaction of prerequisites

This minor is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business to be competent end users and decision makers in a computer information systems environment. The focus is on using microcomputers and higher-level applications software to implement useful applications in a wide range of business areas.

Required Courses

Three courses (9 credits) from any of the following:

• CIS 2300, or any courses from the list of 3000-, 4000-, or 5000-level CIS courses with the exception of CIS 3270, CIS 3810, and CIS 4910;
• At most one course from either OPR3300: Quantitative Methods for Accounting or OPR3450: Quantitative Decision Making for Business I
• All prerequisites must be satisfied.

This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic understanding of information security and assurance issues that organizations face today and the potential solutions available.

This minor would provide an opportunity for students majoring in various areas of business to develop basic data literacy and to integrate techniques and solutions from the areas of technology, statistics, and quantitative modeling in developing business intelligence to facilitate organizational decision-making.

Marketing management majors (except those in the international marketing track) may elect the international business minor. They must substitute another international business course for MKT 3400 if used for the marketing management major.

Choose any three courses (9 credits) from those offered by the Department of Marketing and International Business, except MKT 3000. The selection of courses should be based on the recognition that everyone, regardless of major, needs to engage in marketing, whether for oneself, one’s business, one’s product, or one’s service. Accordingly, course selection should be based on an assessment of which courses will best further one’s career goals. Note that most courses have pre-or-co-requisites.

The minor in quantitative methods and modeling is designed to prepare students majoring in other areas of business with a background of quantitative skills that facilitate the decision making process. In addition to one required course, two elective courses are selected with the approval of the area advisor to complement the students major and provide the student with an appropriate background.

The BBA minor in real estate (9 credits) offers a rigorous, concentrated introduction to real estate, with particular emphasis on financial and investment analysis. A real estate minor benefits all majors in the Zicklin School. Finance majors and students interested in entrepreneurship in particular will find that the minor gives them depth in an allied field.

Students pursuing a real estate minor take a selection of courses related to law, valuation, finance, investment, construction management, and development. Because the bulk of undergraduate real estate courses are taken as part of the final 60 credits toward the degree, interested students taking arts and sciences or business courses are well positioned to pursue the BBA minor.

For additional information about the BBA Minor program in Real Estate, please contact:

Margo Weaker
Director, External Relations and Student Services
Phone: (646) 660-6937
Email: margo.weaker@baruch.cuny.edu