Business

This survey course is designed to acquaint the student with American business as a dynamic process in a global setting. Topics include the private enterprise system, forms of business ownership, marketing, factors of production, personnel, labor, finance, and taxation.

This course presents the foundations for developing skills and knowledge to work effectively with internal and external customers. The student will gain an understanding of the skills, attitudes, and thinking patterns needed to achieve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

This course is designed to give students job-level competency in using the ten-key touch method and develop their ability to solve business problems with an electronic display-printing calculator. Emphasis is placed on basic mathematical functions in a business context. Upon completion, students can perform basic electronic calculations at an acceptable speed and accuracy rate.

This is a survey course related to managing personal finance. Topics include personal financial planning, money management, taxes, consumer credit, insurance, investments, retirement planning, and estate planning.

This course is a study of practical business mathematics. Topics include fundamental processes of arithmetic with emphasis on decimals and percentages, markup, discounts, bank reconciliation, simple and compound interest discounting notes, depreciation methods, and present value.

This course is a study of the principles and practices of retailing. Topics include planning, policies, and procedures of distribution, store design, layout and location, the economic and social role of retailing, competitive strategies, and retail management.

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of supervision. Topics include management functions, supervisory responsibilities for management-employee relations, organizational structure, project management, and employee training and rating.

This course enables employees to better understand the organizational structure's actions and motivations. Topics include general principles of human behavior operating in the workplace.

This course covers written, oral, and nonverbal communication. Topics include applying communication principles to producing clear, correct, and logically organized business communications.

This course provides a basic theory of accounting principles and practices used by service and merchandising enterprises. Emphasis is placed on financial accounting, including the accounting cycle and financial statement preparation.

This course is a continuation of BUS 241. In addition to a study of financial accounting, this course covers topics in managerial accounting, corporations, and financial statement analysis.

This course is designed to familiarize the student with management concepts and techniques of industrial accounting procedures. Emphasis is placed on cost behavior, contribution approach to decision-making, budgeting, overhead analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, and cost accounting systems.

This course provides an overview of the legal and social environment for business operations. Topics include the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, court systems, alternative dispute resolution, civil and criminal law, administrative agencies, contracts, employment law, property interests and rights, intellectual property, business organizations, and ethics.

This is an introductory study of basic statistical concepts applied to economic and business problems. Topics include data collection, classification, presentation, statistical description and analysis of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, elementary probability, sampling, estimation, and an introduction to hypothesis testing.

This course provides a basic study of the principles of management. Topics include planning, organizing, leading, and controlling with emphasis on practical business applications.

This course provides an overview of the responsibilities of the human resources supervisor. Topics include employee selection, placement, testing, orientation, training, rating, promotion, and transfer.

This course provides an overview of the creation and operation of a small business. Topics include buying a franchise, starting a business, identifying capital resources, understanding markets, managing customer credit, managing accounting systems, budgeting systems, inventory systems, purchasing insurance, and the importance of appropriate legal counsel.

This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing. Topics include marketing strategies, distribution channels, marketing research, and consumer behavior.

This course allows students to apply knowledge and skills in a real-world workplace. Evaluation is based upon a well-developed portfolio, job-site visits by the instructor, the employer’s evaluation of the student, and the development and assessment by the student of a learning contract.