Undergraduate Program

The new business minor curriculum requirements fulfill the social sciences division of the Rochester Curriculum. 

The new business minor curriculum consists of satisfactory completion of the pre-minor requirements, three core courses, and three elective courses (pre-minor + 6 total).

Pre-Minor Requirement

ECON 108: Principles of Economics or ECON 207: Intermediate Microeconomics

Core Courses (Three Courses)

The following course is required: 

• BUS 101: Introduction to Business

Plus two of the following: 

• ACC 201: Financial Accounting 
• MKT 203: Principles of Marketing 
• FIN 205: Financial Management
• CIS 220: Business Information Systems and Analytics
• OPS 221: Operations Management (previously listed as BUS 221)
• STR 203: Economics of Strategy and Organization

Electives (Three Courses)

ACC 201: Financial Accounting**
ACC 221: Managerial Accounting*
ACC 222: Financial Statement Analysis*
ACC 224: Intermediate Accounting I*
ACC 225: Intermediate Accounting II*
BUS 103: Business Communications
BUS 118: Business Ethics
BUS 201: Impactful Presentations
BUS 217: Business Leadership
BUS 219: Negotiations
CIS 191: Intro to Programming for Business Analytics
CIS 211: Business Modeling with Excel
CIS 220: Business Information Systems**
CIS 245: Social Media and Text Analytics*
CIS 279: Generative AI and Business Applications*
ECON 209: Intermediate Macroeconomics*
ECON 211: Money, Credit, and Banking
ECON 231W: Econometrics
ECON 251: Industrial Organization*
ECON 268: Economics of Globalization*
ENT 101: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
ENT 223: Planning and Growing Business Ventures*
ENT 227: Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship
ENT 230: Ignite Impact Lab
FIN 205: Financial Management**
FIN 206: Investments*
FIN 213: Corporate Finance*
FIN 224: Options, Futures, and Derivatives*
FIN 233: Mergers and Acquisitions*
FIN 241: Real Estate Principles*
FIN 242: International Finance*
FIN 244: Asset Management*
FIN 246: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and FinTech*
LAW 205: Business Law: Contracts and Legal Entities
LAW 250: Business Law: Transactions and Other Topics
MKT 203: Principles of Marketing**
MKT 212: Marketing Research and Analytics*
MKT 213: Marketing Projects and Cases*
MKT 233: Advertising and Promotional Strategy*
MKT 235: Product and Brand Strategy*
MKT 237: Digital Marketing Strategies*
OPS 221: Operations Management**
PSCI 238: Business and Politics
PSCI 244: Politics and Markets
STR 203: Economics of Strategy and Organization**
STR 221: Business Strategy*
STR 241: Pricing Strategy*

*course has one or more prerequisites
**if not taken as a core course

Students who have declared their business minor before Fall 2026 can request to complete the old curriculum, listed below. Students graduating on or before August 31, 2026, must follow the old curriculum.

Students using the business minor to fulfill the social sciences divisional requirement of the Rochester Curriculum MUST choose both of their minor electives from the list of social sciences courses.

Students whose business minor counts as a social science will show as "BUX" in UR Student. Students whose business minor does NOT count as a social science will show as "BU" in UR Student. If you need to switch between BUX and BU, you will need to drop the existing minor by completing a Rochester Curriculum Change Form and then declare the new BUX or BU minor. 

Pre-Minor Requirements (2)

ECON 108: Principles of Economics (fall/spring) or ECON 207: Intermediate Microeconomics (fall/spring)

One statistics course from the following: 

• STAT 190: Introduction to Statistical Methodology (previously STAT 213)
• STAT 180: Introduction to Applied Statistical Methodology (previously STAT 212)
• ECON 230: Economic Statistics
• MATH 203: Introduction to Math Statistics*
• PSCI 200: Applied Data Analysis
• PSCI 205: Data Analysis II

*MATH 201 is a prerequisite for MATH 203. 

Required Courses (3)

Students must take all of the following:

• ACC 201: Financial Accounting
• MKT 203: Principles of Marketing
• FIN 205: Financial Management

Electives (2)

Social sciences electives

• BUS 103: Business Communications
• BUS 118/PHIL 118: Business Ethics (S)
• BUS 201: Impactful Presentations (F/S)
• BUS 217: Business Leadership (F)
• BUS 219: Negotiations (next offered SP 2027)
• ECON 209: Intermediate Macroeconomics (F/S)
• ECON 211: Money Credit and Banking (F)
• ECON 251: Industrial Organization (S)
• ECON 268: Economics of Globalization (F)
• ENT 101: Introduction to Entrepreneurship (F)
• ENT 223: Entrepreneurship to Plan and Grow a Business (S)
• ENT 227: Fundamentals of Social Entrepreneurship (every other S, odd years)
• ENT 230: Ignite Impact Lab (S)
• FIN 206: Investments (S)
• FIN 213: Corporate Finance (F)
• FIN 233: Mergers and Acquisitions (S)
• FIN 241: Real Estate Principles (F)
• FIN 242: International Finance (F, even years)
• FIN 244: Asset Management (S, odd years)
• FIN 246: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and FinTech (S)
• MKT 212: Marketing Research and Analytics (S)
• MKT 213: Marketing Projects and Cases (F/S)
• MKT 233: Advertising and Promotional Strategy (F)
• MKT 235: Product and Brand Strategy (F)
• MKT 237: Digital Marketing Strategies (S)
• OPS 221: Operations Management (F/S) (previously listed as BUS 221)
• PSCI 238: Business and Politics (S)
• PSCI 244: Politics and Markets (S)
• STR 203/ECON 214: Economics of Strategy and Organization (F/S)
• STR 221: Business Strategy (offered next SP 27)
• STR 241/ECON 241: Pricing Strategy (F)

Non-social sciences electives (electives taken from the non-social science list below will not satisfy the social sciences division of the Rochester Curriculum)

• ACC 221: Managerial Accounting (S)
• ACC 222: Financial Statement Analysis (S)
• ACC 224: Intermediate Accounting I (F)
• ACC 225: Intermediate Accounting II (S)
• CIS 191: Introduction to Programming for Business Analytics (F/S)
• CIS 211: Business Modeling with Excel (F/S)
• CIS 220: Business Information Systems (F/S)
• CIS 245: Social Media and Text Analytics (S)
• CIS 279: Generative AI and Business Applications (S)
• LAW 205: Business Law: Contracts and Legal Entities
• LAW 250: Business Law: Transactions and Other Topics
• MATH 208: Operations Research (F)

F= offered fall semester
S= offered spring semester
F/S= offered both fall and spring semesters

College rules on overlap apply:

• No more than two courses may overlap between the five required courses comprising the business minor and any major or second minor.
• No more than one course may overlap between the business minor and a cluster.
• Prerequisite courses do not count as overlaps since they are not part of the minor itself.