The Business Cyber Security minor provides students with a general introduction to the principles and practices of cyber security in business and organizational settings. Through this minor, students will gain the skills necessary to participate in the full spectrum of security program planning, including security policy development and planning for incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management. The minor will also provide students with the skills required for the more applied practices of networks security, application security, threat detection analysis, prevention, and remediation. Given the need for good cyber hygiene as part of a workforce, the business security minor is an excellent counterpart to any undergraduate program at the University of Alabama.
Undergraduate Minors at Culverhouse
More information about minors, majors, and concentrations is available in the UA Course Catalog.
Note: Current students interested in enrolling in a minor may contact Student Services for assistance and more info.
Culverhouse School of Accountancy
Accounting
Certain business skills are both universal and in high demand. A fluency in accounting empowers students with the knowledge to understand the way an organization works as well as how it maintains its ability to operate and grow. Accounting skills are necessary for any business owner or professional.
The Accounting minor for non-majors offers students a way to learn accounting without the expectation of a career centered on it. This minor is recommended for students who anticipate a need to manage the financial health of an organization, whether from a CEO’s perspective or from various levels in business. Accountants work all across the world, but Culverhouse accountants are in high demand.
This minor is not available to students who are pursuing a major in Accounting.
Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies
Actuarial Science
Actuarial Science is perennially ranked among the top ten career choices and is an excellent option for students with future-oriented minds and a strong aptitude for mathematics and statistics. As an actuary, you will join an elite group that estimates the probability of future events, develops ideas for coping with unexpected losses and helps shape the way society deals with risk. The Actuarial Science minor offers a wide variety of career paths consistent with many attractive lifestyles. Students who minor in this subject receive a solid foundation for passing professional examinations that are required to become an actuary.
Economics
The Economics minor is intended for students who have a strong interest in rigorous economics and want to acquire problem-solving skills and develop a logical way of analyzing various social problems. The minor is especially valuable for students in business administration preparing for an MBA or in engineering and the natural and physical sciences, as well as students considering graduate work in law and public policy. The minor is also attractive to students who wish to broaden their education and to better understand the forces that shape the modern world. The Economics minor includes coursework in microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic policy, and econometrics. The Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies offers a broad range of economic courses with a flexible minor requirement so the students can choose to take courses that match their academic ability, interests, and career goals.
This minor is not available to students who are pursuing majors in Economics or Finance.
Finance
The Finance minor is intended for students who have an interest in developing a strong foundation in financial decision-making by offering courses designed to develop the student’s analytical skills and financial problem-solving abilities. Such skills can broaden a student’s career opportunities, as most business decisions are financially based. These same skills are also important when making personal investment decisions, regardless of career. The minor is especially valuable for students preparing for an MBA or in engineering and the natural and physical sciences, as well as students considering graduate work in business. A Finance minor helps prepare students to apply their major degree to fields such as banking, financial services, corporate finance, investment management, real estate, insurance enterprise risk management and consulting.
This minor is not available to students pursuing majors in Economics or Finance.
Personal Wealth Management
The Personal Wealth Management minor qualifies students to sit for the Certified Financial Planner™ exam. The course selection extensively covers all aspects of personal finance, including investments, estate planning, taxation, risk management and insurance, employee benefits, and retirement planning. Graduates with the Personal Wealth Management minor often land careers working in or with securities firms, bank trust departments, mutual funds, insurance companies, investment advisory firms, financial planning firms, and pension and accounting firms. Students with this minor will gain extensive knowledge of all areas of personal finance and wealth management.
Note: Students will need to complete FI 414 Investments to sit for the Certified Financial Planner™ exam.
Real Estate
The Real Estate minor continues The University of Alabama’s real estate legacy that began over 80 years ago. Designed to provide students with a background in real estate fundamentals and decision making, the Real Estate minor combines many different academic disciplines, including economics, finance, sales, management, and law. Students have a unique opportunity to be eligible to take the Alabama Real Estate Salesperson License exam after completing two real estate courses, and a Real Estate Minor qualifies graduates for the Institute of Real Estate Management’s Certified Property Manager (CPM) fast track program. Another benefit to students is the Alabama Center for Real Estate’s (ACRE) Collegiate Career Assistance Program (CCAP). Housed within the Culverhouse College of Business, CCAP provides student support and resources for professional development and real estate internship/employment opportunities.
Risk Management, Insurance, and Financial Services
Risk complicates business and life. Every day companies and individuals confront catastrophic risks emanating from natural disasters, lawsuits, fire, and many other sources. Students in the Risk Management, Insurance, and Financial Services minor learn to identify and manage risks. They are trained for careers in the insurance and financial services industries, as professional risk managers, and as knowledgeable consumers as they navigate the risks in their own lives. Culverhouse has been designated a Global Center of Insurance Excellence, ranking among the top schools in the world for students seeking a risk management career.
Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science
Business Cybersecurity
Statistics
The Statistics minor equips students with a general introduction to statistical theory followed by further training in statistical methods and computational statistics. Through this minor, students will gain the skills necessary to participate in statistical analysis and data science in business, engineering, or scientific fields and greatly enhance their preparedness for graduate school in disciplines involving quantitative analysis. The Statistics minor is an excellent counterpart to any undergraduate program at The University of Alabama.
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management (SCM) refers to the coordination of processes across a supply chain to effectively manage the flow of materials, services, and information to satisfy customer demand. Our SCM minor follows the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model focusing on the Make-Source-Deliver processes of supply chains. The four required courses of the minor support the SCOR model.
The Supply Chain Management minor is restricted to Operations Management majors only.
Department of Management
Entrepreneurship
The mission of the Entrepreneurship minor is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to innovate in existing firms and launch new ventures. Students will learn how to identify and evaluate opportunities and how to capitalize on these opportunities. They will work closely with faculty and experienced entrepreneurs to gain hands-on experience in key activities necessary to build sound business models and acquire critical resources as they help established firms innovate and create profitable enterprises.
General Business
The General Business minor is designed for non-business students who want to gain a broad understanding of the business world. This minor pairs well with a variety of undergraduate majors across campus. The minor includes survey courses from several of the functional fields in Culverhouse College of Business and gives students the opportunity to tailor the elective courses to their specific interests.
The General Business minor is not available to students pursuing a major within the Culverhouse College of Business.
Human Resource Management
The Human Resource Management minor develops student skills for the effective management of human resources in organizations. The program trains students to strategically address human capital management to improve organizational performance. The six-course curriculum covers a range of topics, including employee recruitment, selection, training and development, compensation, performance management, employee relations, and strategic human resource management. The curriculum is aligned with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) curriculum guidelines and prepares students to pass the SHRM-CP Certification exam as well as Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) exam.
International Business
The International Business minor prepares students to engage with a globally connected marketplace by developing their awareness, understanding, and ability to critically analyze the globally connected world.
Students minoring in international business acquire skills to trade with foreign suppliers and distributors and work effectively in multicultural work environments.
There is a focus on experiential learning, including projects that sometimes involve global teams comprised of students from around the world and ample opportunities to gain international experience through study abroad and internship programs that better prepare students for competition in the global economy. Culverhouse may be local, but our knowledge is global.
Management
The management minor is a five-course sequence that provides students the opportunity to develop analytical and interpersonal skills necessary to focus an organization’s crucial processes on achieving its mission. In addition, students in this minor will learn and practice key leadership, teamwork, and innovation skills necessary to efficiently organize and employ an organization’s assets, especially its human capital, in a manner appropriate to both established firms and newly created ventures. This minor is a valuable addition to any course of study at the University of Alabama as it teaches students how to work with and through others to achieve critical goals.
This minor is not available to students who are pursuing a major in Management.
Management Communication
The courses in this minor help students manage what they communicate as young professionals. They improve their impression when communicating orally, visually, and in writing. They exercise their emotional intelligence to gain acceptance as leaders when communicating interpersonally. They gain professional experience by managing a client project that brings real-world experience to the classroom and engages students in the application of strategic communication to navigate team relationships, resolve conflicts, and facilitate effective project governance.
Department of Marketing
Sales
The Sales curriculum provides students with sales theory, up-to-date sales technologies, practical process applications, and engagement with live business-to-business selling environments. Students who have earned the minor can contribute revenue to a hiring organization while also being more prepared to accept continued sales and management training. In an environment where making the sale is everything, a minor in Sales takes our students anywhere.