Finance Minor (FIN)

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The Finance minor involves work across the fields of finance, economics, and accounting. This specialization allows students to deepen their understanding of stock and bond markets, corporate financial systems, capital valuation, global economic issues, and the banking system. Taught by professors from the areas of finance, economics, and accounting, this minor is a vehicle that will help you shape the career you desire, whether it is in corporate finance, financial advising, insurance, real estate, investment banking, et al.

Students take the four required courses below and two electives from the remaining courses listed, for a total of six courses.

Complete the following courses (18 cr):

Complete these courses (9 cr):
ACC 2101 - Accounting I 3 cr
BUS 3260 - Investments and Portfolio Management 3 cr
BUS 3320 - Applied Principles of Finance 3 cr
Business majors complete this course (3 cr):
BUS 2130 - Insurance and Risk Management 3 cr
Non-Business majors complete this course (3 cr):
BUS 3230 - Financial Management 3 cr
And complete 2 of the following (6 cr):
ACC 3211 - Corporate Financial Reporting I 3 cr
ACC 3212 - Corporate Financial Reporting II 3 cr
BUS 2140 - Personal Finance 3 cr
BUS 2460 - Worksheets as Analysis Tools 3 cr
ECO 3020 - Money, Banking, and the Financial Services Sector 3 cr
ECO 3220 - International Trade and Development 3 cr