24 courses with the subject BUS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BUS 110INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 3 SHC
A survey course providing the student an introduction and solid foundation in the core disciplines of business - including finance, marketing, management, and human resources. An understanding of the core disciplines and their relations to one another will contribute to student success in the specified higher-level business courses. Students enrolled in these courses will be challenged to integrate course specific knowledge through appreciative inquiry, application, and active learning.
Designed to develop basic keyboarding skills essential to the touch system. Includes development of proper keyboarding techniques, drills to develop speed and accuracy, and solving simple keying problems. Not open to students who have had one or more semesters of keyboarding except with the consent of the instructor. Outside practice required. Lab Fee. Course Level Objectives
Surveys business activities of individual, national, and international scope. A comparison of economic systems with emphasis on the free-enterprise system including forms of ownership, organization, management, ethics, labor relations, production, marketing, finance, and legal and regulatory influences. Course Level Objectives
Introduction to federal income taxation with special emphasis on tax rules and conventions, preparing tax forms for individuals, and tax planning. An introduction to corporate taxation concepts will also be discussed. This course is designed for individuals from all disciplines regardless of major. No business or accounting experience is required.
This course provides an overview of marketing and its role within organizations and society. It examines core marketing concepts and the decisions involved in creating, distributing, and selling products and services.
Focus is on the application and interpretation of management concepts and techniques to the small business firm and the problems faced in the formation and early growth periods. Permission of the instructor. Available upon sufficient student demand.
A course designed to introduce the student to the basic concepts, practices, and analytic techniques of marketing. The survey will include market decision making, buyer behavior, channels of distribution, marketing research, and international marketing. Prerequisite: Business 110. 94
This course focuses on the planning, directing, and controlling of the personnel function. The emphasis is on the recruitment, selection, development, and evaluation of employees.
An introduction to personal finance. Topics include household budgeting, banking services, insurance, income taxes, consumer credit, and time value of money. Emphasis will be placed on helping students understand and make decisions about buying health and life insurance, buying versus renting a home, car-buying decisions, creating a budget, investment planning, and managing personal income.
An introduction to management principles, practices, and research. The topics are approached through the management function/process framework. Extensive examinations of domestic and international cases and examples are included. A computerized competitive management simulation is used with participation lasting for the duration of the course. This course is designated as an elective. Prerequisite: BUS 110.
Focus is on the principles of effective business letter writing and the solutions of business communications problems in the modern business world. Special emphasis on letters of application, sales and credit letters, related business forms, business reports, and the development of effective expression.
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of sports marketing. The class will focus primarily on the use of sports in the marketing of products, services, and corporations, as well as the application of marketing theories and practices within the sports industry. Course Level Objectives
A directed individual study course designed to permit students opportunity for examining special topics through research, special projects, and reading.
An introduction to statistics used in business decisions and applications. Course content includes data analysis, probability, discrete and continuous distributions, estimation, averages, sampling, and hypothesis testing.
This course is an introduction to the American legal system as it applies to the environment in which businesses operate. Focus is on the basic principles of contracts, negotiable instruments, real and personal property sales, secured property, insurance, bankruptcy, wills, trusts, and probate estates. Course Level Objectives
An introduction to concepts of differential and integral calculus used in business decisions and applications. Course content includes curve sketching, exponential growth, derivatives, regression, continuity, limits, and probability.
This course will provide an introduction to quantitative methods for management decision analysis. Topics include data collection and description, probabilistic and deterministic modeling, statistical estimation, prediction, and hypothesis testing, linear programming, scheduling and inventory modeling and their application to business. This course is designated as an elective.
Advertising is designed to introduce the student to basic advertising terminology, the purpose of advertising, the use of media, target marketing and segmentation, advertising development, and advertising campaigns. Career opportunities in advertising and using advertising in buying decisions will also be discussed.
Retailing is the study of the type of business that buys from producers and/or wholesalers and sells to consumers. Students will study retailing formats and structures; merchandise and store positioning; merchandise characteristics; planning and buying; personal selling, advertising, and sales promotion; customer relations; and technology used in retailing. Ethical and legal behavior in retail management will also be discussed.
Effective approaches to developing and executing successful social media marketing strategies for both current and future landscapes. This includes techniques, strategies, and platforms for promoting individuals and organizations, as well as tools for analyzing campaign performance and managing ongoing social media efforts. Course Level Objectives
A study of the legal practices and principles applied to contracts, sales, product liability, government regulations of business, business torts and crimes, bailments, negotiable instruments, partnerships, corporations, and insurance. This course is designated as an elective.
BUS 260Business Communication 3 Business Elective3
Lab Science 4 ENG 231 Amer Lit I, or ENG 232 3 Amer Lit II or ART 111 or MUS 110 Free Elective 1 Free Elective 3 TOTAL 15 TOTAL 16 General requirements include a minimum of 60 semester hours and at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA Degree Plans show a possible arrangement of courses over a typical four-semester span. There is no requirement to take courses in this order. 83
A study of the principles and applications of good written and oral communications. This course is designed to develop critical writing and communication skills by providing instruction and practice in effective human relations and in preparing business letters, memoranda, reports, resumes and various employment search messages, and other organizational documents. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or permission from instructor.
This course is designed to provide students with the competencies necessary to prepare them for successful business ownership. The course includes the study of entrepreneurial characteristics, business ethics, basics of financing, marketing fundamentals, product considerations, location and layout concerns, pricing decisions, promotion strategies, and management concepts.
