Associate in Science Degree in Small Business/Entrepreneurship
2023-2024 Map
Total Units: 60 - 70
Term 1
16.00 - 18.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BUS 20: Introduction to Business | 3.00 | Meets Area B. | |
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course is survey of business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Students will learn about how this business context (including issues such as ethics and sustainability) influences the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and securities market; and therefore affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. (C-ID BUS 110). |
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| BUS 35: Leading and Supervising Teams | 3.00 | Meets Multicultural Breadth competency. | |
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course invites current and future managers to build foundational skills for leading teams of employees in a diverse, multicultural work environment. The focus is on self-assessment, analyzing to understand work situations, as well as developing leadership skills and strategies. This course emphasizes individual factors impacting success including communication skills, conflict resolution, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and business ethics. |
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| Required Core Choice: (Select One): Meets Area E | 3.00 | ||
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| Math Competency (Select One) | 3.00 - 5.00 | Math placement varies; may be satisfied by high school coursework. Meets Area E if satisfied through college coursework. | |
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| English Competency: Area D Choice (Select One) | 4.00 | ||
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Term 2
15 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BCIS 13: Business Communication | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills. (C-ID BUS 115). |
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| BUS 8: Introduction to Business Law | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
Fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions. Introduction to the legal process. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, criminal law, business organizations, and judicial and administrative processes. (C-ID BUS 125). |
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| ECON 4: Principles of Microeconomics | 3.00 | Meets Area B. | |
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Prerequisite(s): Elementary Algebra or equivalent This is an introductory course focusing on choices of individual economic decision-makers. Topics include scarcity, specialization and trade, market equilibrium, elasticity, production and cost theory, market structures, factor markets, and market failure. (C-ID ECON 201). |
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| Area F Choice: Self Integration (Select One) | 3.00 | ||
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| Elective (any course numbered 1-99) | 3.00 | Only necessary if the 60 units needed to graduate have not been completed. Consider taking a CSU or IGETC General Education course. Visit www.assist.org to see CSU options. | |
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Term 3
14.50 - 17.50 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BUS 25: Introduction to Entrepreneurship | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course covers the practical considerations, challenges and rewards associated with starting and operating a small business. The course explores how to identify small business opportunities; the factors influencing entrepreneurial success; and financing, marketing, managing, record-keeping and computer applications to support small business operations. Each student will identify a business opportunity, then create a detailed business plan. |
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| BUS 64: Principles of Marketing | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course explores the nature, function and importance of marketing. It focuses on conducting opportunity analysis, assessing consumer behavior, engaging in marketing research, and target marketing as the basis for devising marketing objectives and plans. Students will develop and assess marketing strategies to meet the needs of consumer and business to business (B2B) target markets using the "4 P's": product, promotion, price and place. The emphasis is on ethical, needs-satisfaction, relationship marketing in today's global, technology-infused, competitive environment. |
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| Required Core Choice: (Select One) | 2.00 - 3.00 | ||
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| Required Core Choice: (Select One) | 3.00 | ||
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| Area C Choice (Select One) | 3.00 - 4.00 | ||
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| Area F Choice: Kinesiology Activity (Select One) | 0.50 - 1.50 | ||
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Term 4
14.50 - 19.50 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BCIS 33: Skills for the Working Professional | 1.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 1.00
This course introduces students to identifying essential external and internal communication skills, managing conflict, developing a positive attitude, and creating the professional image for the workplace. |
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| BCIS 81: Microsoft Excel for Business | 1.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 1.00
This course is designed for those who want to learn Microsoft Excel for Windows from the perspective of owning or running a business. Course content includes designing and analyzing worksheets and using formulas and functions with an emphasis on accounting principles. |
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| BUS 68: Web Marketing | 3.00 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course introduces students to web marketing tools, strategies, application and measurement. It examines benefits and challenges associated with web marketing technologies including web site development, search engine optimization, online advertising, social media, email campaigns, blog marketing, digital public relations, multimedia and mobile marketing. Students will learn how to create a web marketing strategy and then apply web marketing technologies in a measurable way to achieve business objectives. |
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| Required Core Choice: (Select One) | 3.00 | ||
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| Area A Choice (Select One) | 1.00 - 5.00 | ||
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| Area F Choice: Kinesiology Activity (Select One) | 0.50 - 1.50 | ||
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| Elective (any course numbered 1-99) | 3.00 | Only necessary if the 60 units needed to graduate have not been completed. Consider taking a CSU or IGETC General Education course. Visit www.assist.org to see CSU options. | |
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| Elective (any course numbered 1-99) | 2.00 | Only necessary if the 60 units needed to graduate have not been completed. Consider taking a CSU or IGETC General Education course. Visit www.assist.org to see CSU options. | |
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