Associate in Science Degree in Small Business/Entrepreneurship
2018-2019 Map
Total Units: 51 - 62
Term 1
15 - 18 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BUS-20: Intro. to Business | 3 | ||
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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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| BCIS-13: Business Communication | 3 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course applies the principles of creating ethical and effective business communication to letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents utilizing appropriate software to prepare and deliver written documents and professional-level oral reports. |
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| Required Core Choice (Select One) | 3 | ||
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| Butte Local Area E - Communication and Analytical Thinking or Math Competency (Select One) | 3 - 6 | Math Competency course selection determined by recommended placement. Math level V placement by Multiple Measures or test meets Math Competency. | |
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| BUS-35: Mgmt & Human Relations | 3 | Double counts as multicultural competency graduation requirement. | |
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course examines the role effective human relations plays in enhancing today's diverse, multi-cultural work environment and facilitating individual and organizational success. This course emphasizes concepts and assessment relating to individual factors (such as personality, attitudes, values, learning style) and to how employees throughout organizations interact with one another (such as communication, leadership styles, conflict resolution approaches). The course enables both managers/supervisors and those not currently in leadership roles to better understand work dynamics and devise appropriate strategies to enhance human relations and organizational and career success. |
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Term 2
12 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| ENGL-2: Reading and Composition | 3 | Recommended English placement varies. | |
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Prerequisite(s): ENGL 118 or ENGL 119 This course develops college-level critical reading and writing practices. Students will critically read expository, argumentative, and fictional texts and develop expository, persuasive, and argumentative academic writing. Essays will demonstrate reading comprehension, analysis, critique, academic research, and synthesis. (C-ID ENGL 100). |
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| ECON-4: Princ of Microeconomics | 3 | ||
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Prerequisite(s): MATH 108 or MATH 116 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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| BUS-8: Legal Environment of Business | 3 | ||
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Unit(s): 3.00
This course covers fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions and affecting managerial decisions. It introduces the law as an instrument of social and political control in society. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, judicial and administrative processes, employment law, forms of business organizations, and domestic and international governmental regulations. (C-ID BUS 120). |
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| Butte Local Area F - Self-Integration (Select One) | 3 | ||
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Term 3
14.5 - 17.5 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BUS-64: Princ of Marketing | 3 | ||
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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 target markets (both consumer and business-to-business (B2B)), using the "4 Ps": product, promotion, price and place (distribution). 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 - 3 | ||
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| BUS-25: Small Business Mgmt | 3 | ||
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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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| Required Core Choice (Select One) | 3 | ||
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| Butte Local Area C - Humanities (Select One) | 3 - 4 | ||
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| Kinesiology Activity (Select One) | 0.5 - 1.5 | ||
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Term 4
9.5 - 14.5 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.| Course Name | Units | Notes | |
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| BUS-68: Business on the Internet | 3 | ||
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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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| BCIS-33: Skills-Working Professional | 1 | ||
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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: Excel for Business | 1 | ||
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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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| Required Core Choice (Select One) | 3 | BUS-60 Fall only. | |
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| Butte Local Area A - Natural Science (Select One) | 1 - 5 | ||
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| Kinesiology Activity (Select One) | 0.5 - 1.5 | ||
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| Elective | Only needed to reach minimum of 60 units required to graduate. | ||
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