The Harvey Kapnick Business Institutions Program requires the successful completion of:
THREE-FOUR prerequisite courses, FOUR core courses, TWO tools courses, and TWO institutions courses.
 Students may declare the minor only after successfully completing all of the prerequisites.
 Students must receive a C- or better in all courses in order to count them for the minor.
 None of the 4 tools and institutions courses may be double-counted toward any major, minor or certificate except as a
related course for a major.
 Students counting a core course toward another major or minor, except as a related course for a major, must substitute
an additional tools or institutions course to count toward the BIP minor.
 The Director of BIP may accept up to two credits for courses earned via Study Abroad as substitutes for BIP elective
courses under the headings Tools & Institutions. To obtain these substitutions, students must consult with the Director
BEFORE going abroad about the suitability of possible course selections. That consultation is no guarantee of approval for
substitution, however, it will depend on the submission to the Director AFTER completion of the courses elsewhere of a
written syllabus and copies of all assignments completed for the class(es) in question.
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Prerequisite Courses (3-4 units — Must be completed before declaring a minor in BIP)
 ECON 201: Intro to Macroeconomics
 ECON 202: Intro to Microeconomics
 MATH 220 or MATH 212-213: Differential Calculus
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Core Courses (4 Units)
 STAT 210 or STAT 232 or MATH 202 or PSYCH 201 or SESP 210: Statistics
 BUS_INST 260: Accounting & Business Finance
 ENGLISH 205 or ENGLISH 305: Expository Writing
 PHIL XXX: Applied Ethics
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Tools Courses in analytical methodology (2 units)
 BUS_INST 239 or IMC 300 or IMC 301: Marketing
 ECON 249 or ECON 349: Business Strategy
 ECON 281: Applied Econometrics
 ECON 310-1: Microeconomics [not open to students who have taken MMSS 211-1]
 ECON 360-1 or IEMS 326 or MATH 366-1: Finance
 IEMS 310: Operations Research
 POLI_SCI 312: Statistical Research Methods
 STAT 320-1, -2: Statistical Theory and Methods
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Institutions Courses with commercial institutions as the central focus (2 units)
 CFS 393-1 or CFS 395-1: Workplace Culture
 HISTORY 325: History of American Technology
 HISTORY XXX: History of Capitalism/Corporations
 IEMS 325: Engineering Entrepreneurship
 IEMS 342 or LOC 306 or LOC 311: Organizations
 POLI_SCI 341 or POLI_SCI 348 or SOCIOL 324: International Political Economy/Globalization
 POLI_SCI 375: Business-Government Relations
 SOCIOL 302: Organizations
 SOCIOL 335: Rational Decision-Making
 SOCIOL 316 or 331: Economic Sociology, Markets
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Harvey Kapnick Business Institutions Program – 2010 Sheridan Road – 847-491-2706 – bip@northwestern.edu – northwestern.edu/bip – Revised: 5/1/2015