Technology, Innovation and Supply Chain Minor

The requirements listed below are for students who declared the Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain minor in Winter 2022 or later. Those who declared prior to Winter 2022 fall under the Supply Chain minor requirements. To view the requirements for the Supply Chain minor, please visit our Resources page.

Required coursework focuses on business operation fundamentals, project management and business ethics. Minor courses are also team-focused, encouraging the development of skills in team interaction, consensus building, conflict resolution, group presentations and organizational leadership. Additionally, Rady School courses provide learning opportunities for undergraduate students that are unique to the UC San Diego campus. Students who complete the minor will bring a much-valued perspective to their initial employment. 

Students must complete a total of 28 units (20 must be upper-division units) to satisfy the requirements. In order to complete the Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain Minor, students must comply to the following:

• Take all minor classes for a letter grade (the math prerequisite may be taken for P/NP for minor purposes).
• Earn at least a C- in each course used for the minor.
• Only two lower-division courses (8 units) may be taken for the Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain minor.
  • Taking both ECON/MGT 4 and MGT 5 for the Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain minor applies as one course (4 units) toward the lower-division limit.
• At least five classes for the minor must be taken at UC San Diego.
• Finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0
• You can use two upper-division courses (a maximum of 8 units) to fulfill the requirements for a minor that have also been used to satisfy the requirements of a major. There is no limit for lower-division courses.
• You can't use an upper-division course to satisfy the requirements of more than one minor.
• Read the Academic Senate policy on minors (section E).

Find the list of tentative Rady classes for the academic year on the undergraduate webpage.

To plan your Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain Minor courses, please visit our Resources page to access the Rady Program Requirements Sheet.

Accounting Requirement (4 units)

Choose between:

• MGT 45 Principles of Accounting (4 units) OR
• MGT/ECON 4 Financial Accounting & MGT 5 Managerial Accounting (8 units, both courses are required to fulfill the accounting requirement)

Core Courses (16 units)

All courses are required.

• MGT 71/R Business Process and Operations Management
• MGT 127/R Innovation and Technology Strategy
• MGT 153 Information Technology in Business Analytics*
  • View prerequisites by clicking on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes
• MGT 175 Supply Chain Management

*Prior to Winter 2024, the course title to MGT 153 was “Business Analytics”

Elective Courses (8 units)

• MGT 128R Business Innovation and Growth
• MGT 151R Business Analytics
• MGT 162/R Negotiation
• MGT 166 Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• MGT 171/R Operations Management
• MGT 172/R Business Project Management 
• MGT 176 Strategic Cost Management
• MGT 177 Analytics and Spreadsheet Modeling
• MGT 179 Topics in Supply Chain

The Technology, Innovation, and Supply Chain minor is highly specialized and Rady will only accept courses directly related to supply chain and operations management. Other minor elective courses may be considered on a case-by-case basis by petition.