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The Undergraduate Program

The Accounting Minor

The Rady School of Management’s accounting minor is designed to provide students a breadth of understanding of accounting theory, practices, and applications. The minor will appeal to students who envision careers in the accounting profession. Because of accounting’s broad application, these careers would span across public accounting firms, corporate accounting departments, and governmental, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations. For many students, this will be their first step in achieving a Certificate in Public Accounting, CPA.

Accounting Minor Requirements

The accounting minor will consist of seven courses that cover the key accounting principles, processes, and applications. Required courses include two lower-division courses and five upper-division courses.

Lower-Division Courses
Upper-Division Courses

In order to count toward the minor, all courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must earn a C– or better in each course. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division courses required for the accounting minor will be accepted from regionally accredited United States institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management.

CPA Accounting Requirements

A student who completes nine Rady accounting courses (the seven courses required for the minor plus two electives) will have met part of the accounting educational requirement for CPA licensure—thirty-six quarter units in accounting subjects. The CPA education requirements changed effective January 1, 2014, and include additional educational requirements. Find more information here: http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba/.

The Business Minor

The Rady School of Management’s business minor is designed to provide students the breadth of understanding of business theory and a depth of ability with business practices and applications. This minor will appeal to students who envision careers that require an understanding of the basic principles and practices of business. Because of business’s broad application, UC San Diego students with a minor in business will be well prepared to assume entry and intermediate positions in the business functions of a vast number large and small for-profit companies, governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and nongovernmental entities. Additionally, graduates pursuing careers not directly related to formal business functions, but still impacted by business practices, will bring a much-valued perspective to their initial employment.

Business Minor Requirements

To fulfill the requirements of the business minor, students must take five required courses (twenty units) and two electives (or the equivalent of eight units). A maximum of two lower-division courses may be applied toward the minor. The required courses are

Acceptable elective courses are

All courses taken for the business minor must be taken for taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course used for the minor. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the business minor will be accepted from regionally accredited United States institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management. Upper-division courses applied toward the business minor will not count toward major requirements for another department.

Specializations

While not a formal requirement, if students choose to, they can take electives in the same functional area and thus have a “mini-concentration.” These mini-concentrations include the following:

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor

The Rady School of Management’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I) minor is designed to provide students with a breadth of understanding of business and entrepreneurship theory, practices, and applications. The E&I minor will appeal to creative and ambitious undergraduate UC San Diego students who envision launching and managing their own business or entering careers in innovation-driven fields. There are five main goals for the overall curriculum that will be pursued programmatically:

  1. Cover a broad context of the application of entrepreneurship and business principles.
  2. Develop a comprehensive view of innovation within and operations of both established businesses and start-up business operations.
  3. Be application-oriented and provide experiential learning opportunities.
  4. Provide course work in a unique area not available elsewhere on campus.
  5. Through course work and faculty guidance, help innovative students cultivate and expand on their business ideas.

The curriculum includes a two-course practicum requirement, MGT 121A and 121B Innovation to Market, that will give students the opportunity to apply their knowledge of entrepreneurial theories and innovative thinking strategies in a classroom setting.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor Requirements

The E&I minor will consist of twenty-eight total units that span the various key fundamentals of innovation development and operations. Students will be required to complete two practicum courses (eight units), three core courses (twelve units), and eight units of elective course work to be chosen from a list of options. Of the twenty-eight units required for the minor, at least twenty units must be upper division.

Practicum requirement (eight units):

Core courses (twelve units):

Electives (eight units) will be selected from:

All courses taken for the E&I minor must be taken for a letter grade. Students must earn at least a C– in each course used for the minor. Lower-division transfer credits for courses that are clearly equivalent in scope and content to lower-division Rady School courses required for the E&I minor will be accepted from regionally accredited US institutions and from foreign institutions recognized by the Rady School of Management. Upper-division courses applied toward the E&I minor will not count toward major requirements for another department.