Academic Programs - Butte College

Associate in Science Degree in Small Business/Entrepreneurship

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Total Units: 60 - 67

Term 1

15.00 - 19.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	BUS 20: Introduction to Business	3.00	Meets Area 4.
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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).
	BUS 35: Leading and Supervising Teams	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	Area 1A Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 4.00

	Area 2 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 5.00

	Area 3 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 4.00

Term 2

15 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	BCIS 13: Business Communication	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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).
	ECON 4: Principles of Microeconomics	3.00	Meets Area 4.
Prerequisite(s): Elementary Algebra or equivalent Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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).
	Required Core Choice: (Select One): Meets Area 1B	3.00
CMST-2: Public Speaking (3.00 units) CMST-2H: Honors Public Speaking (3.00 units)
	Area 6 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00

	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.

Term 3

16.00 - 17.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units
	BUS 8: Introduction to Business Law	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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).
	BUS 25: Introduction to Entrepreneurship	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	BUS 64: Principles of Marketing	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	Required Core Choice: (Select One)	2.00 - 3.00
ACCT-20: Intro to Accounting (3.00 units) ACCT-128: Small Business Accounting (2.00 units)
	Required Core Choice: (Select One)	3.00
BUS-40: Introduction to Management (3.00 units) BUS-44: Human Resource Managemt (3.00 units)
	Graduation Requirement Choice (See GE Guide)	2.00

Term 4

14.00 - 16.00 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	BCIS 33: Skills for the Working Professional	1.00
Unit(s): 1.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 17.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 34.00 Total Course Hours: 51.00 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.
	BCIS 81: Microsoft Excel for Business	1.00
Unit(s): 1.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 12.75 hours Lecture / 12.75 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 25.50 Total Course Hours: 51.00 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.
	BUS 68: Web Marketing	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 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.
	Required Core Choice: (Select One)	3.00
BCIS-18: Intro to Business Technology (3.00 units) BCIS-85: Microsoft Excel for Windows (3.00 units) BUS-50: Sales Strategies (3.00 units) BUS-60: Advertising-Promotion (3.00 units)
	Area 5 Choice (See GE Guide)	3.00 - 5.00

	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.