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General Business

Business

A.A.S. Degree (D,G,W)

General Business is tailored to enable students to combine studies in non-business and business courses that best match their individual education goals. This program is intended for full-time business students who plan to transfer to a four-year business college or university after graduation before entering the workforce. This flexibility affords students a unique preparation for continued business studies at an institution of higher learning as well as preparation for professional and technical careers requiring basic business and specific technical skills.

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

  1. Integrate professional, ethical and legal standards into business practice.
  2. Employ the various theories of management and marketing in a business.
  3. Apply the principles of human resource management to organizations.
  4. Evaluate the actions taken to acquire and retain customers.
  5. Measure and track financial performance of an organization.
  6. Analyze and apply the strategic management process to organizations

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

  1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
  2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
  3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
  4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
  5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
  6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Graduation Requirements

Core Courses

ECO 111Macroeconomics

3
ECO 122Microeconomics

3
ENG 101Crit Thinking & Acad Writing

3
ENG 102Composition and Research

3
SSC 100First Year Seminar

1
 
MAT 145Math of Finance

3
Or
MAT 152Quantitative Reasoning

3
Or
MAT 153College Math and Statistics

4

Program/Major Courses

ACC 101Accounting I

4
ACC 112Accounting II

4
BUS 101Introduction to Business

3
BUS 203Business Law

4
BUS 275Portfolio and Professionalism

3
FIN 221Money and Banking

3
MGT 212Principles of Management

3
MKT 212Principles of Marketing

3

Select 2 course(s) from:

ACC 162Computerized Accounting

3
MGT 218Smalll Business Management

3
MGT 231Human Resource Management

3
MKT 214Advertising and Promotion

3
MKT 219Sales & Sales Management

3
OAT 121Keyboarding

4
OAT 157Word Level I

3
OAT 159PowerPoint

3
OAT 242Desktop Publishing

4
OAT 251Access

3
OAT 258Word Level II

3
 
SSC 130Where's My Money?

1
And
SSC 131Are You Credit Worthy?

1
And
SSC 132Planning for the Beach? – Saving, Investing, and Risk Protection

1

Program/Major Support Courses

CIS 107Intro to Computers/Application

3
OAT 152Excel Level I

3
SOC 215Business Ethics

3
 
MAT 255Statistics I

3
Or
MIS 220Management Information Systems

3

Select 1 course(s) from:

ENG 122Technical Writing-Comm

3
ENG 124Oral Communications

3
HIS 111U. S. History: Pre-Civil War

3
HIS 112U. S. History: Post-Civil War

3
PSY 121General Psychology

3
SOC 111Sociology

3
SPA 136Spanish Communication I

4

Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)

Semester 1

SSC 100First Year Seminar

1
ACC 101Accounting I

4
BUS 101Introduction to Business

3
CIS 107Intro to Computers/Application

3
ENG 101Crit Thinking & Acad Writing

3
 
MAT 145Math of Finance

3
Or
MAT 152Quantitative Reasoning

3
Or
MAT 153College Math and Statistics

4

Semester 2

ACC 112Accounting II

4
OAT 152Excel Level I

3
ECO 111Macroeconomics

3
ENG 102Composition and Research

3
MKT 212Principles of Marketing

3

Semester 3

ECO 122Microeconomics

3
FIN 221Money and Banking

3
MGT 212Principles of Management

3
 
MAT 255Statistics I

3
Or
MIS 220Management Information Systems

3
 
Elective
Social Science Elective

3

Semester 4

BUS 203Business Law

4
SOC 215Business Ethics

3
Elective
Major Elective

4/3
Elective
Major Elective

4/3
BUS 275Portfolio and Professionalism

3

Approved Electives

Select one (1) social science/humanities elective.

ENG 122Technical Writing-Comm

3
ENG 124Oral Communications

3
HIS 111U. S. History: Pre-Civil War

3
HIS 112U. S. History: Post-Civil War

3
PSY 121General Psychology

3
SOC 111Sociology

3
SPA 136Spanish Communication I

4

Select two (2) major electives.

MGT 218Smalll Business Management

3
MGT 231Human Resource Management

3
MKT 214Advertising and Promotion

3
MKT 219Sales & Sales Management

3
OAT 121Keyboarding

4
OAT 251Access

3
OAT 157Word Level I

3
OAT 258Word Level II

3
OAT 159PowerPoint

3
OAT 242Desktop Publishing

4
ACC 162Computerized Accounting

3
 
SSC 130Where's My Money?

1
And
SSC 131Are You Credit Worthy?

1
And
SSC 132Planning for the Beach? – Saving, Investing, and Risk Protection

1

To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 61 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.

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