Business Honors Program

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Welcome to our Business Honors Program
The Business Honors Program is designed to recognize students who have demonstrated high academic standards and to encourage these students to continue their record of excellence as business majors here at California State University, Northridge. The Business Honors Program offers rigorous courses that emphasize communication, critical reasoning, complex problem solving, and teamwork skills.

Program Benefits
The Business Honors Program offers its students many benefits including:

• Smaller class sizes
• Challenging curriculum designed to develop critical thinking, creative problem solving, and spoken and written communication skills
• Academic advising by Program Director & Department Chairs
• Peer mentoring
• Priority registration into all business courses
• Professional guest speakers
• Professional Shadowing opportunities
• Opportunities to work with faculty, business partners, and Business Honors alumni on research and special projects
• Networking, networking, networking 

Admission Requirements
To apply for admission to the Honors Program, students must meet the following minimum requirements:
For first-time Freshman Applicants, there are two options: one based on grades, the other on most recent SAT scores
1. GPA: A cumulative high school GPA of 3.7, OR
2. SAT: Combined Math, Verbal, and Writing score of 1950
Any College Student Applicant must have a minimum college GPA of 3.5

• Submit a completed application (Download Application Form) to the Business Honors Program, including two letters of recommendation (at least one academic) (Download Recommendation Form)
• Application Deadlines:
  • Spring semester 2013:
    • October 1st to guarantee registration for honors & business sections
    • December 1st to guarantee registration for honors sections only
  • Fall semester 2012:
    • May 1 to guarantee registration for honors & business sections
    • July 1 to guarantee registration for honors sections only
• Be interviewed by the Business Honors Program Selection Committee

Academic Requirements
TOTAL BUSINESS HONORS PROGRAM UNITS: 18
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Honors Mentorship (BUS 498, BUS 491CS, FIN 437BH) 3 units
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Business Honors Seminars. Each student must successfully complete a minimum of 3 one-unit seminars:
BUS 295, BUS 395, BUS 495   BUS 296 BH A-Z   Total Seminar Units: 3-6
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Each student must successfully complete 9-12 additional units. The following upper-division core classes are usually offered for honors students annually:
BUS 302BH The Gateway Experience     MGT 360BH Management and Organizational Behavior   MKT 304BH Introduction to Marketing Management   SOM 306BH Operations Management   BUS 497BH Capstone (either A or BCS)
Total Additional Units: 9-12

SEMINAR COMPONENT

BUS 296BHD	"Executive Seminar"	Section: 18651	Instructor: Dr. T. Kiesler
BUS 296BHN	"Business & Society"	Section: 18713	Instructor: Dr. Moore
MGT 496F	"Field Studies in Executive Leadership"	Section: 18712	Instructor: Dr. Shelton

MENTORSHIP COMPONENT

BUS 498

Section:12809

Mentorship must be approved by director and enrolled through the BHP Office (Download Registration Form)

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Mentorship Opportunities

Students - Download a registration form
Faculty - List an opportunity

Case Competition
The Business Honors Case Competition is an event that offers Honors students a unique opportunity to showcase their abilities and apply their functional, analytical, and communication skills to a real-life business situation.
Students work in teams to analyze an assigned case, and they present their analysis to a panel of business executives, who serve as judges. In addition to offering students practice in case analysis, the competition also offers invaluable networking opportunities.
Past Honors students have secured independent study projects, internships, and full-time employment opportunities through their participation in the Case Competition.

Tutoring
Honors students offer free tutoring Monday through Thursday from 8am to 6pm and Fridays from 9am to 5pm in JH 1214.

• Two-business-day advance sign-up is required
• Although tutoring is offered for a variety of classes, not all subjects are tutored every day.
• Students may sign up for 2 hour of tutoring per subject, per week.
• Students should come prepared with textbooks, notes, and questions.
• Tutors will not read and analyze cases or work on homework for students.
• Tutoring services are provided for BUS 302L but not BUS 302. For example, if you did not pass statistics lower division exam in 302L, you may get tutoring for SOM 120. However, please do not ask tutors to do your case analysis.