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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Human Resource Management Minor


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Human Resource Management is a minor designed to prepare students for careers in business. The minor is tailored with courses to maximize students’ abilities to gain knowledge and skills in a concentrated timeframe. Students looking to minor in Human Resource Management can pair this concentration with a variety of other business and non-business majors.

Just like Human Resource Management majors, students who minor in Human Resource Management have access to several different student organizations on OU’s campus. Some student organizations are SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management and Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity. These organizations give students the opportunity to become more involved with the student body, develop leadership skills, open doors for internships and jobs, and cultivate friendships that can last a lifetime.

Special offerings for each semester may be found in the Schedule of Classes.

Requirements for the minor in Human Resource Management


Five courses are required to complete the Human Resource Management minor; these include the following.

Additional requirements


To earn this minor, and to take 3000- and 4000-level business classes, non-business students must meet with the minor coordinator and have an approved minor authorization form detailing the courses and the prerequisites required for the given minor. Once approved for the minor, students must take all the remaining courses in the minor at Oakland University. Students must complete the prescribed courses for the minor with a grade of C or better in each course and the prerequisites for each course. Transfer students planning to earn a minor must earn at least nine credits toward the minor at Oakland University; at least six of these nine credits must be in courses at the 3000 level or above.

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