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Dec 04, 2024
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[DRAFT] Course Catalog 2025-2026 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Finance Minor
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The minor consists of a minimum of 5.5 full courses (or the equivalent).
Note: Students must earn minimum grades of C- or P for all courses that apply toward the minor.
 View the catalog page for the economics department.
Finance is an important subdiscipline at the intersection of economics and business. The finance minor provides students with a solid foundation in financial economics, including corporate finance, financial markets and institutions, and investments. This minor will complement a variety of majors, including computer science, economics, and mathematics.
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Note(s) on Requirements
- Students completing the half course BUSI 116 will only need 5.5 full courses to complete the minor. Students completing the full course ECON 099 will need six full courses to complete the minor.
- Due to the high level of overlap between the requirements, students who minor in finance may not also major in financial economics.
- For students majoring in economics (with or without a mathematical economics concentration) or minoring in economics, as well as minoring in finance,
- ECON 241 must count to the finance minor and cannot count to the economics major or minor; and
- ECON 341 and ECON 342 may count to either the economics major or minor, or the finance minor, but may not be counted toward both.
Learning Goals
Students who successfully complete a minor in finance will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of key financial concepts, processes, methods, and data that are essential in understanding modern problems and approaches in finance;
- Understand how accounting, economics, and business underlie the mechanisms that drive financial market outcomes;
- Communicate and value the importance of ethics and governance of companies for the delivery of positive outcomes for society as a whole;
- Develop the critical thinking, oral/written communication, and leadership skills necessary to effectively communicate and address challenges in financial markets and institutions; and
- Gain skills and experience in key software and data used in industry.
Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
The awarding of transfer credit is at the discretion of the department chair. Students should obtain preliminary approval of transfer credit in economics from the department chair prior to taking economics courses elsewhere if they want them to count toward the minor.
Prerequisites to Note
- ECON 101 is a prerequisite for all further study in the department.
- The content of Calculus I is a prerequisite for almost all economics courses numbered 250 or higher, including ECON 253 . This may be satisfied through:
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