Investment Minor

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The McLaren School of Management offers seven minors for students in non-business majors.

The minors are reflected on students’ transcripts, and require a letter grade and a minimum GPA of 2.0 in the minor. Students interested in a Business minor should consult with their adviser to declare the minor and to review the specific course requirements and necessary prerequisites for the courses.

The minor will provide the essentials for students wanting to gain knowledge in the area of investing and saving, as well as a stepping stone to more advanced skills in investing. Some of the courses will include advanced valuation of securities, learning to program and work with data to complete professional applied investing projects, understand the holes in investing through behavioral and institutional behavior, and creative thinking in investments.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students earning an investment minor will be able to:

Build a portfolio of different asset classes in various ways and analyze the performance historically
Understand how to work with investing data and manage it using Bloomberg and Factset
Have a familiarity with programs used to analyze investment data
Understand the mathematics and insights needed to value a security and understand how to explain why or why not the market price is right
Understand how to make an investment recommendations and execute the trade, including how it fits into the overall portfolio and the benefit to the portfolio

Minor Requirements (20 units)

Required Courses (12 units)

Elective (8 units)

Students choose from two groups of electives below:

Group One: Elements of Investing (Choose 1)

Exposes students to tools that may be useful in investing, and elements of human behavior that distort investment behavior.

BUS 336 - Behavioral Finance
BUS 437 - Options & Futures

Group Two: Applied Investment Analysis (Choose 1)

BUS 335 - Applied Capital Markets & Personal Finance
BUS 337 - Creative Investing