Business

Degrees and Certificates

Courses

BUS 100: Introduction to Business

Semester Hours 3
This is a survey course 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.

BUS 105: Customer Service

Semester Hours 3
This course presents the foundations required 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 win customer satisfaction and loyalty.

BUS 130: Electronic Calculations

Semester Hours 3

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. Students can perform basic electronic calculations at an acceptable speed and accuracy rate upon completion.

BUS 146: Personal Finance

Semester Hours 3

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.

BUS 150: Business Math

Semester Hours 3
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.

BUS 175: Retailing

Semester Hours 3
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.

BUS 186: Elements of Supervision

Semester Hours 3
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of supervision. Topics include: the functions of management, responsibilities of the supervisor for management employee relations, organizational structure, project management and employee training and rating.

BUS 189: Human Relationships

Semester Hours 3
This course enables employees to better understand actions and motivations within the organizational structure. Topics include: general principles of human behavior operating in the workplace.

BUS 215: Business Communication

Semester Hours 3

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

BUS 241: Principles of Accounting I

Semester Hours 3
This course is designed to provide 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.

BUS 242: Principles of Accounting II

Semester Hours 3

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.

BUS 248: Managerial Accounting

Semester Hours 3
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.

BUS 263: The Legal and Social Environment of Business

Semester Hours 3

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.

BUS 271: Business Statistics I

Semester Hours 3
This is an introductory study of basic statistical concepts applied to economic and business problems. Topics include: the collection, classification and presentation of data, statistical description and analysis of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, elementary probability, sampling, estimation and introduction to hypothesis testing.

BUS 275: Principles of Management

Semester Hours 3

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

BUS 276: Human Resource Management

Semester Hours 3
This course provides an overview of the responsibilities of the supervisor of human resources. Topics include: the selection, placement, testing, orientation, training, rating, promotion and transfer of employees.

BUS 279: Small Business Management

Semester Hours 3
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.

BUS 285: Principles of Marketing

Semester Hours 3
This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing. Topics include: marketing strategies, channels of distribution, marketing research and consumer behavior.

BUS 296: Business Internship

Semester Hours 3
This course allows the student to apply knowledge and skills in a real-world work place. 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.