| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Major in Business (B.A.) | ||
| Core Courses 2,5 | ||
| BUS 100M | Business Calculus 3 | 3 |
| or BUS 130 | Business Problem Solving | |
| BUS 106 | Introduction to Business Applications 4 | 1 |
| BUS 210 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BUS 220 | Principles of Marketing | 4 |
| BUS 230 | Principles of Management | 4 |
| BUS 326 | Business Information Systems | 3 |
| BUS 344 | Managerial Finance | 4 |
| BUS 361 | Business Law | 3 |
| BUS 481 | Internship in Business 1 | 3-4 |
| ECO 202 | Principles of Microeconomics | 2 |
| ECO 203 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 2 |
| MAT 207M | Statistical Analysis | 3 |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Business Core | 36-37 | |
| Select One Emphasis | 24-29 | |
| Business Core and Emphasis | 60-66 | |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| General Education | 44-45 | |
| Electives | 12-17 | |
| Total Credits | 122 | |
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To qualify for taking the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam, the internship course must be specifically designated as an Internship-Accounting in order to fulfill the rules established by the Minnesota Board of Accountancy. A maximum of six credits for internships can qualify for the 150-credit requirement for CPA licensing.
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Students must earn a minimum grade of C in each of the core courses to graduate.
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MAT 124M may be used as a substitute. Students entering graduate school in business are strongly encouraged to take BUS 100M or MAT 124M.
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Students can choose to take BUS 106 or successfully pass the Approved Assessment for 0 credits.
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In order to enroll in 400-level BUS and ECO courses (except for BUS 481), students must earn a minimum grade of D in each of the core Business courses.
Courses whose number is followed by a letter fulfill a General Education requirement.
Students may not declare a B.A. in Business and a Minor in Business.
Students may not declare a B.A. in Business and a B.A. in Business and Political Science.
Accounting Emphasis (24 credits)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 310 | Intermediate Accounting I | 4 |
| BUS 311 | Intermediate Accounting II | 4 |
| BUS 312 | Federal Income Taxes | 3 |
| BUS 313 | Strategic Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 410 | Advanced Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 414 | Auditing Principles and Procedures | 4 |
| ECO 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| or ECO 302 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | |
| Total Credits | 24 | |
Business Analysis and Analytics Emphasis (28-29 credits)*
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| COS 100 | Introduction to Programming | 3 |
| BUS 317 | Business Analytics | 4 |
| BUS 325 | Business Analysis | 3 |
| BUS 334 | Principles of Project Management | 3 |
| BUS 416 | Business Forecasting and Data Mining | 3 |
| BUS 417 | Business Analysis and Analytics Seminar | 3 |
| ECO 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| or ECO 302 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | |
| Business and/or economics elective course | 3 | |
| Choose one of the following International/Quantitative courses: | 3-4 | |
| Strategic Managerial Accounting | ||
| Marketing Research | ||
| Financial Modeling & Valuation | ||
| Strategic Management | ||
| Object-oriented Design and Programming | ||
| Total Credits | 28-29 | |
Finance Emphasis (26 credits)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 310 | Intermediate Accounting I | 4 |
| or BUS 313 | Strategic Managerial Accounting | |
| BUS 352 | Financial Modeling & Valuation | 3 |
| BUS 390 | Investments | 4 |
| BUS 440 | Capital Markets | 3 |
| BUS 470 | Finance Seminar | 3 |
| ECO 302 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | 3 |
| Electives from business and/or economics courses (minimum 6 credits; maximum 3 credits at the 100 level) | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 26 | |
Human Resource Management Emphasis (27 credits)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 231 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| BUS 330 | Compensation Theory and Practice | 3 |
| BUS 331 | Staffing, Training and Development | 3 |
| BUS 335 | Organization Development | 3 |
| BUS 430 | Strategic Management | 3 |
| BUS 493 | Seminar - Human Resource Management | 3 |
| ECO 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| or ECO 302 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | |
| Electives from business and/or economics courses (minimum 6 credits; maximum 3 credits at the 100 level) | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 27 | |
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Emphasis (27 credits)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 231 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| BUS 232 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| BUS 313 | Strategic Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| or ECO 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | |
| BUS 333 | Entrepreneurship Strategies and Tools | 3 |
| BUS 334 | Principles of Project Management | 3 |
| or BUS 430 | Strategic Management | |
| BUS 475 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship Seminar | 3 |
| Electives from business and/or economics courses (minimum 6 credits; maximum 3 credits at the 100 level) | 6 | |
| Choose one of the following Marketing courses: | 3 | |
| Sales and Sales Management | ||
| Advertising and Promotion | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Total Credits | 27 | |
Marketing Emphasis (24 credits)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 309 | Brand Management | 3 |
| BUS 318G | Global Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 321 | Marketing Research | 3 |
| BUS 324 | Consumer Behavior | 3 |
| BUS 420 | Marketing Seminar | 3 |
| ECO 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| Choose one of the following Marketing Activities courses: | 3 | |
| Sales and Sales Management | ||
| Advertising and Promotion | ||
| Principles of Digital Marketing | ||
| Business and/or economics elective course | 3 | |
| Total Credits | 24 | |
Overview
The Ministry Scholars program is Bethel University's bachelors to master's degree program that reduces cost and time-to-completion by streamlining undergraduate and graduate education. Graduates receive a bachelor's degree from Bethel University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and a master's from Bethel Seminary. This program is well suited for a variety of majors who want to become equipped to lead churches, parachurch organizations, and other ministries. It is also a good fit for ministry-minded students who want to pursue bi-vocational ministry or work outside of professional ministry. Students learn from successful ministry leaders and experts in Biblical and Theological Studies, Spiritual and Personal Formation, and Transformational Leadership. This program offers supplemental training resources, developmental activities, and discipleship opportunities to prepare ministry-minded students for effective ministry leadership. Students also gain valuable field experience in local churches and ministry settings.
The objectives of the program are that graduates will demonstrate age-appropriate growth and ultimately ministry leadership preparedness in the following domains:
- Spiritual life: Students will grow spiritually, deepening their love for, commitment to, and dependence on God, and develop an instinct to trust in God and to connect intimately with God.
- Discernment of call: They will clarify and reaffirm their sense of calling to vocational ministry and what that looks like in a changing world.
- Emotional maturity: They will become emotionally mature adults, possessing the ability to sense and manage emotions, to see others’ perspectives, to sympathize and empathize, to follow and lead as appropriate and to foster healthy relationships.
- Cultural competence: They will become culturally aware, gaining a perspective that all cultures possess strengths and vulnerabilities, an ability to work across cultural lines and an appreciation that diverse teams are stronger teams.
- Bible knowledge: They will gain a clear understanding of the Bible’s content and a deep and abiding passion for the truth of the Gospel.
- Spiritual wisdom: They will grow in wisdom, possessing a capacity to apply the Bible so that others are inspired by their teaching and preaching to live out biblical truth and experience human flourishing.
- Intellectual virtues: They will develop virtues such as critical thinking, respect for data, intellectual humility, and thirst for learning, combined with the skill to interpret and teach the Bible accurately.
- Leadership capacity: They will learn to follow leaders and to lead followers—enlisting people, building teams, leading change and achieving results.
- Godly character: They will become virtuous people—individuals who love others, speak truth, live humbly, sacrifice their own interests, live justly, express joy and show compassion.
What is Bethel looking for in a Ministry Scholar?
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Ability to maintain a minimum of 3.0 GPA (cumulative college grade point average or unweighted high school GPA if the student has less than one year of college experience) throughout the duration of the Ministry Scholars program while enrolled at CAS and Seminary.
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Ability to provide a pastoral and ministry leader reference that speaks to the student’s character and call to ministry.
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Commitment to prioritizing activities, discipleship opportunities, and retreats offered to Ministry Scholars, designed to enable the individual to develop a strong sense of community.