The minor is intended to introduce non-business majors to an understanding of management practices and principles within the perspective of the liberal arts. As an interdisciplinary minor, and through a curriculum divided into three tiers, it incorporates basic economic and accounting courses with classes throughout the arts, humanities and social sciences as well as specially designed SLAMM courses focusing on leadership, ethics, law, public relations, marketing and strategy.

Students completing the minor will acquire skills that may be applicable for future careers as well as gaining an appreciation of the origins and implications of contemporary business methods and institutions. Learning outcomes include: financial literacy; management concepts and practices; critical perspectives on business and society; and, an integration of disciplinary expertise with career opportunities.

The minor requires a minimum of six courses (18 hours) selected from three tiers that will insure the students have an acquaintance with basic business language and practices as well as an interdisciplinary perspective. Courses taken in the Freeman School, apart from Accounting 2010, will be considered for credit on a case by case basis. A maximum of two courses may be counted from a study-abroad program, provided the courses are accepted by the specific department advisor and the director of SLAMM. Registration is restricted to SLAMM minors during priority registration. Open to all students thereafter.

Tier I - students must complete both courses in Tier I

• ECON 1010 Microeconomics
• ACCN 2010 Financial Accounting

Tier II - students must complete a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 in Tier II

• SLAM 3030 Principles of Marketing
• PHIL 2600 Business Ethics
• SOCI 2500 Organizational Behavior

Tier III - Electives

• SPAN 3290 Business and Legal Spanish
• ARBC 3200 Business Arabic
• ENGL 3670 Technical Writing
• MUSC 2800 Introduction to the Music Business
• COMM 3400 Communication and Leadership in Groups and Organizations
• COMM 3290 Digital Production for Nonprofits
• HIST 4004 Markets, Money and Trade in Pre-Industrial Economies
• ANTH 3090 Financial Lives
• ANTH 3190 Economic Anthropology
• ECON 3100 Economics of Money and Banking
• ECON 3240 Economic History of the United States
• ECON 3340 Government in the Economy
• SOCI 1510 Work in American Society
• SOCI 2180 Wealth, Power and Inequality
• POLI 3540 International Political Economy
• POLC 4030 Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State