Course Description: Introduction to the concept of leadership that provides an opportunity to develop essential leadership skills through study, observation and application.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This class will meet face-to-face 5 times: August 22, September 19, October 17, November 14, and December 5. The remainder of the work will be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: No textbook required for this classSection 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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: No textbook is required for this classSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Touch system on standard keyboard with emphasis on accuracy in business letters, tabulation and straight copy.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students will need Microsoft Word software.
Course Description: Keyboarding with speed and accuracy, letters, tabulations, rough drafts and business papers and forms.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students will need Microsoft Word software.
Course Description: Decision making, production speed, and accuracy in office applications.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Prerequisite of BU128 with a grade of C or better required. Students will need Microsoft Word software.
Course Description: Fundamental skills of selling including sales approaches, sales presentations and demonstrations, overcoming objections, suggestive selling and closing sales; personal motivation and human relations as they relate to selling; analysis of the techniques of selling.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Aspects of retailing such as consumer behavior, product development, location, layout, retail math and other related topics with special emphasis placed on buying goods for resale.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: No textbook is required for this classSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Techniques of effective, efficient, and ethical advertising in multiple media for various sizes of organizations.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: No textbook required for this course
Course Description: On-the-job experiences under the supervision of work site manager and course instructor.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Internship credit is designed for students who have jobs and are majoring in AAS programs.
Course Description: Continuation of BU147 Internship I; on-the-job experiences under the supervision of work site manager and course instructor.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Internship credit is designed for students who have jobs and are majoring in AAS programs.
Course Description: Continuation of BU148 Internship II; on-the-job experiences under the supervision of the work site manager and the course instructor.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Internship credit is designed for students who have jobs and are majoring in AAS programs.
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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: No textbook is required for this class
Course Description: Market analysis, defining target markets and setting marketing objectives for a new or existing small business; specific strategies for achieving marketing objectives and identifying relevant aspects of product, price, place and promotion.
Fall
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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: No textbook is required for this class
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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: No textbook is required for this class
Course Description: Developing a comprehensive business plan for a small business venture with guidance and assistance from the instructor in the completion of the business plan.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Hutchinson High School Students Only.
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.
Fall
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.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This class will meet face-to-face 5 times: August 22, September 19, October 17, November 14, and December 5. The remainder of the work will be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: No textbook is needed for this course
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.
Fall
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This class will meet face-to-face 5 times: August 22, September 19, October 17, November 14, and December 5. The remainder of the work will be completed online.