Course Description: Economic environment, organization, management, labor, marketing, finance and career opportunities available in business; for both non-business and business majors.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY!Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Operation of electronic printing and display calculators designed to develop proficiency in performing applications to business problems.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Personal and family financial planning emphasizing budgeting, consumer protection, credit, home buying, income taxes, insurance and investments.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Consumer and business mathematics emphasizing calculations involving checking accounts, invoices and discounts, markups and markdowns, payroll, simple interest and promissory notes, compound interest and present value, consumer and business credit, and mortgages.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Practice in writing business letters and business reports; using business vocabulary; verbal, non-verbal, and interpersonal communications; listening and oral reporting.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Effective records management for manual and computerized records systems as applied to alphabetic, numeric, subject and geographic filing methods.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Application of accounting principles and concepts using cloud-based databases to establish and maintain accounting systems and records for proprietorships. Supports service and merchandising business use of integrated accounting software.
Course Notes: BU100 Small Business Accounting, or BU101 Accounting I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Introduction to the concept of leadership that provides an opportunity to develop essential leadership skills through study, observation and application.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Job-search skills and career development including topics such as completing an application form and resume, developing interviewing techniques, developing job leads, and investigating career opportunities, job requirements and career ladders.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Development of professional image and service attitude; business etiquette; conflict resolution; communications; adding value to customer relations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Touch system on standard keyboard with emphasis on accuracy in business letters, tabulation and straight copy.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students will need Microsoft Word software.
Course Description: Introduction to entrepreneurship and venture management as well as elements of success and failure in new ventures; identifying new opportunities and sources of data; the emphasis placed on the importance of development of a business plan.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Basics of financial management for a small business including financial statements, cash flow projections, methods of financing a small business and record keeping systems for the small business.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Operational aspects of setting up and managing a small business including forms of legal ownership, personnel policies, purchasing, inventory control, leadership styles and other management considerations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Accounting as an instrument of management control with emphasis on the use of accounting as a basis for management decisions in planning and controlling a firm''s activities; concepts of accounting, cost accounting, applications, budgeting and accounting reports to management.
Course Notes: BU102 with a C or higher or BA102 with a C or higher.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The scope and development of the modern marketing including marketing research, forecasting, consumer buying behavior and consumer motivation with emphasis on the marketing manager's implementation of the marketing mix: product, price, promotion and place.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Skills and processes needed to effectively, efficiently, and ethically manage people, projects, and tasks.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Comprehensive look at the skills needed to successfully open and operate a new or existing business; business objectives; planning; organizing; staffing; financial statements; budgets; analysis of potential markets; financing of the business; location; layout; and legal forms of ownership.
Course Notes: BU100 Small Business Accounting, or Departmental Consent, or BU101 Accounting I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Law of contracts, real property, personal property, bailments, sales and secured transactions with emphasis on the Uniform Commercial Code.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Word processing on the microcomputer using Microsoft Word software.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: The PC version of a computer is required for this class. A Mac computer will not work.