Minor in Business

Information Systems required courses:

• IS 233 Introduction to Business Data Analytics and Programming
• IS 340 Business Application Programming 
• IS 380 Database Management 
• IS 385 Systems Analysis and Design 

Already in the Health Care Administration (HCA) Program:

• IS 300 Management Information Systems (Substituted by HCA 416)

IS 300 will be a co-requisite for IS 340, 380, and 385, effective in the 2022-2023 university catalog, students will need to complete HCA 416 (which is substituted for IS 300 for HCA majors) either before they enroll, or in the same semester they enroll, in these courses.

Human Resource Management required courses:

Choose four of the courses below:

• HRM 445 Compensation Administration
  • Prerequisite: HRM 361
• HRM 446 Leadership and Motivation in Organizations
  • Prerequisite: HRM 360
• HRM 458 Managing Culture and Diversity
  • Prerequisite: HRM 360 or 361
• HRM 460 Current Issues in Human Resource Management
  • Prerequisite: HRM 360 or 361
• HRM 462 Labor-Management Relations
• HRM 463 Organizational Training and Development
  • Prerequisite: HRM 360 or 361
• HRM 465 Staffing and Performance Management
  • Prerequisite: HRM 361

Already in the HCA Program:

• HRM 360 Organizational Behavior (Substituted by HCA 410)
• HRM 361 The Human Resource Function (waived if the student has taken HCA 312)

Marketing required courses:

Choose four of the courses below:

• MKTG 330 Mass Marketing Communications: Advertising
• MKTG 410 Services Marketing
  • Prerequisites: MKTG 300
• MKTG 437 Digital Marketing and Media
  • Prerequisites: MKTG 300
• MKTG 465 Business to Business Marketing
  • Prerequisites: MKTG 300
• MKTG 490 Consumer Behavior o Prerequisites: MKTG 300
• MKTG 492 New Products/New Services o Prerequisites: MKTG 300

Already in the HCA Program:

• MKTG 300 Marketing (substituted by HCA 353)

Required courses:

• MGMT 300 Principles of Management and Operations
• MGMT 421 Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation

Already in HCA Program: 

• ACCT 201 Elementary Financial Accounting
• MKTG 300 Marketing (substituted by HCA 353) 

Choose one additional Entrepreneurship minor elective as listed in the current CSULB catalog. HRM 360 and HRM 361 are not available to students for the purposes of this minor.  

The Apostle Enterprise Lab (AEL) program is a two-course sequence that allows students to study entrepreneurship from idea to launch to execution. Additional information is available at csulb.edu/ael. 

Required courses: 

• MGMT 300 Principles of Management and Operations
• MGMT 355 Experiential Entrepreneurial Management
• MKTG 355 Experiential Entrepreneurial Marketing 

Already in HCA Program: 

• ACCT 201 Elementary Financial Accounting 
• HRM 360 Organizational Behavior (Substituted by HCA 410) 
  OR 
• HRM 361 The Human Resource Function (Substituted by HCA 312) 

*As IS 300 is a co-requisite for IS 340, 380, and 385, students will need to complete HCA 416 (which is substituted for IS 300 for HCA majors) either before they enroll, or in the same semester they enroll, in these courses.