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2024-2025 General Catalog

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Consulting - Minor

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The consulting minor prepares students to manage people, processes and strategies in all types of organizations and to consult with organizational leaders and members on these issues. These skills are needed by students in business, engineering, agriculture, sciences and any technical discipline to get a job in consulting and excel in any job. Students will learn how to manage consulting projects, how to make recommendations based on data analytical analysis, how to implement change and implement a consulting process in working with executives.

Required Courses (11 Credits)

The Consulting Minor requires five classes for a total of 11 semester credit hours (2 credits from the MSLE 4250 - Internship or a SEED Program trip). Admission into the minor is required to enroll in the MSLE 4895 , Consulting Skills course. Applications for the minor can be found here: Consulting Minor Application form

Consulting Minor Track Options:

Track 1: General Consulting for Business and Industry

Track 2: Small Business/Micro-enterprise Consulting

A GPA of B- or above is required for minor coursework.

Courses may not be taken on a pass/fail basis.

Core Curriculum

These courses are required for both tracks.

MGT 3600 - Project Management 2 credit(s)
MSLE 3880 - Leading Change: Influence and Strategic Agreements 2 credit(s)
MSLE 4532 - Data-Driven Decision Making 2 credit(s)

Track 1: General Consulting for Business and Industry (5 credits)

MSLE 4895 - Consulting Skills 3 credit(s)
MSLE 4250 - Marketing-Strategy-Leadership-Entrepreneurship Internship 2 credit(s)

Track 2: Small Business/Micro-enterprise Consulting Curriculum

MSLE 3590 - Small Business Consulting 2 credit(s)
SEED Program (international trip counts for 2 credits)

Note: Since the MSLE 3590 class is only two hours vs the three-hour MSLE 4895 - Consulting Skills course, that leaves one hour short of the 11 hours for the consulting minor. Students can make up that extra hour by taking one of the 3 hour entrepreneurship classes (MSLE 3510 , 3540 , or 3580 ) in place of one of the core courses required (MSLE 3500 , 3880 , 4532 ).