Professional and Technical Selling Minor

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Provides students with technical and/or liberal arts backgrounds with opportunities to pair these backgrounds with essential knowledge and skills required for careers in sales. Combines rigorous classroom experiences with industry opportunities.

Minor Total Credits: 15

Professional and Technical Selling Requirement - Credits: 3

SELL 3310 - Professional and Technical Selling Credits: 3

Professional and Technical Selling Approved Elective Courses - Credits: 6

Choose 2 courses from the list below
SELL 4310 - Advanced Selling Credits: 3
SELL 4320 - Sales Force Strategies Credits: 3
SELL 4330 - Sales Seminar Credits: 3

Advanced Business Electives - Credits: 6

Any business courses at the 3000 - 4000 level - Credits: 6

Additional Requirements

The professional and technical selling minor prepares students to manage business clients. This minor provides students with technical and/or liberal arts backgrounds with opportunities to pair these backgrounds with essential knowledge and skills required for careers in sales. Careers in sales offer independence, ample financial reward, personal growth, and opportunities for rapid advancement within organizations. Students experience rigorous classroom experiences designed to develop important knowledge and practical selling skills including: oral and written communication skills, selling techniques and networking, and the use of sales technology and customer information.

All professional and technical selling minors must comply with requirements of the advanced business prerequisites for enrollment in upper-division courses and must complete the common body of knowledge courses as listed previously. All professional selling courses for the minor require a minimum grade of C.

15 credit hours (3 credits required course, 6 credits from the Approved Elective Courses for the Professional and Technical Selling Minor course list, 6 credits of Advanced Business Electives)