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Undergraduate
Minor

Business Humanities

From finance to technology to healthcare, to public administration and nonprofit mangament, employers today seek graduates with creativity, cultural fluency, critical thinking, and the ability to tell compelling stories about what makes their businesses matter.

One of the first of its kind, the Minor in Business Humanities uniquely combines the critical and creative thinking and ethical reasoning of the humanities with practical business knowledge. Students, regardless of their primary major and career aspirations, are empowered to become thoughtful, ethical, innovative and successful leaders.

A collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Stillman School of Business, the minor affords students cutting-edge approaches to business and management that aim to protect and promote human dignity, contribute to human flourishing, serve the common good and promote innovative business. 

Students with any major can complement their studies with a Business Humanities minor. 

Why Choose Business Humanities?

The social and technological disruption of today’s world require the ability to navigate complex moral and societal challenges, to read sociocultural trends, and to compose effective stories. This minor equips students to:

  • Understand Complex Ethical Issues: Explore the nature and extent of ethical challenges in business and related fields.
  • Reflect on Meaningful Work: Learn what makes work meaningful and consider how to foster workplace culture that supports employee wellbeing and retention.
  • Gain Holistic Perspectives: Explore how humanistic management intersects with business practices. Learn strategies that uphold human dignity and foster human flourishing.
  • Develop Narrative, Creative and Critical Competencies: Discover how to tell compelling stories about products, services, and ideas and how they make the world better; practice evaluating the cultural impact of business practices, decisions, and communications; learn how to think creatively and differently.
  • Demonstrate Moral and Analytical Excellence: Develop high-level moral awareness, emotional intelligence and problem-solving skills for addressing complex ethical problems.
  • Lead with Impact: Cultivate strong leadership, managerial and organizational skills to drive effective and meaningful change. 

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College Facts

  • 2,801 Undergraduate Enrollment
  • 6:1 Student to Faculty Ratio
  • 98% Employment Rate
  • 98% Graduate School Acceptance Rate
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Abe Zakhem, Associate Professor

"Studying the humanities and business together is intrinsically and extrinsically valuable and vitally important for producing ethical, socially responsible, and effective leaders, on and off the job."

Abe Zakhem
Professor

Curriculum

Students take 18 credits to complete the Minor in Business in Humanities including required courses and electives.

Required Courses
6 credits for business students; 9 credits for non-business students

  • PHIL 1120 Philosophy through Film or PHIL 1125 Business Ethics
  • BMGT 2501 Principles of Management *required for non-business students only
  • PHIL 3598 (CORE 3598) Humanistic Management (capstone)

Electives
9 credits for non-business students; 12 credits for business students

Options include:

  • Business Fiction
  • American Business History
  • Capitalism and its Critics
  • Capitalism and its Critics
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Economic History of the US
  • Ethics and AI
  • History of the Global Economy
  • Is Business Moral?
  • Modern Society and Human Happiness
  • Moral Argumentation and Debate
  • Morality through Fiction
  • Performing Literature: Storytelling and the Narrative Process
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Spirituality of Work
  • Storytelling and the Narrative Process
  • Surveillance Capitalism

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Faculty

Business Humanities faculty members are dedicated to the rigorous interdisciplinary education of their students. Our faculty members are drawn from disciplines across the University, including philosophy, history, literature, communication and the arts, religion, political sciecne and business management. Through classroom instruction and sponsored extracurricular events, our faculty challenges students to understand and solve real-world environmental issues from various disciplinary perspectives.

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Abe Zakhem
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Elizabeth McCrea
Associate Professor of Management
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Jonathan Farina
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