19 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.
Provides a basic knowledge and skill in the calculations necessary for a business career, including trade discounts, commissions, sales, payrolls, statistics, depreciation, interest, insurance, annuities, investment, credit and taxes. Prerequisite(s): MTH 050 or Placement
Survey of the structure of business, its principle activities and typical problems. The course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of business terminology. It covers such facets of business as ownership, management, marketing, purchasing, production, human resources, finance, accounting and government regulation.
Excel for Business Environment focuses on decision making enhanced by Excel spreadsheets. It introduces students to a collection of quantitative tools designed to enhance managerial decision-making. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial and capital budgeting, forecasting, inventory control models, and linear programming. Extensive use of an Excel spreadsheet will be used in this course. This is an introductory course in business. 2026-2027 Westmoreland County Community College Catalog
Theory and principles of organization and management with an emphasis on the management processes of planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and the business functions, concepts, and applications related to the manager’s role in a decision-making environment.
This course examines the current trends in social media and how these popular Internet-based social networking sites can be a powerful marketing tool for businesses and organizations. Through a combination of selected readings and hands-on projects, students will learn which prominent social media tools are best suited for various businesses and organizations in order to maintain a current online profile. Upon completion of the course, students will have the knowledge to develop a basic social media-marketing plan for businesses or organizations.
Basic principles of law applicable to business action including sources of law, adversary system, crimes, torts, negligence, strict liability, common law essentials of contract law and basic general legal principles.
Retail, wholesale and specialty selling with emphasis on mastering and applying the fundamentals of selling. Sales presentations are required.
Considers the role of human resource management as it relates to recruiting and selection procedures, equal employment opportunity orientation and training. Emphasis is placed on performance appraisals, job evaluations and the motivation of employees.
Principles of statistics as applied to business problems. Presentation and analysis of quantitative data in tabular forms; frequency distributions; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability theory; sampling; tests of significance and regression analysis. It is advised that students have a background in algebra. Prerequisite(s): BUS 120 (C or better) or MTH 052
Principles and functions of marketing. Topics include marketing research, target marketing, marketing segmentation and marketing-mix strategies. Special emphasis is placed on topics such as product, pricing, distribution and promotion decisions.
Relation of management theory and the viewpoints of behavioral science to problems of managing people in both union and non-union environments. Topics included are labor relations, contract negotiations, administration, collective bargaining and grievance arbitration.
This course is an introduction to differential and integral calculus used in understanding and solving problems arising in business and economics. Topics include: limits, differentiation, integration, exponential and logarithmic functions, and functions of several variables. Calculus will be applied to real world business and economic scenarios. Prerequisite(s): MTH 157
A practically oriented course focusing on the development of an entrepreneurial venture from idea generation to the opening and 165 westmoreland.edu
This course is designed to examine behavior modeling in the work environment. Topics include leadership, the motivation of employees and the understanding of organizational cultures. Students will gain an understanding of the behavioral parameters of organizations that compete in both domestic and international markets. Knowledge of workforce diversity will be emphasized as a key to improving workplace performance through effective pluralistic organizational work teams. Special emphasis will be placed on conflict in negotiations, communicating through influence, power and politics, and the management of organizational change.
Introduce the fundamental concepts necessary for the design and use of a database. The course will provide practical experience in applying these concepts using commercial database management systems. Students will perform identification, analysis and interpretation of volumes of data that are collected from a wide variety of sources. Students will learn to identify patterns and relationships in large data sets, to resolve business questions and make data-driven decisions, and effectively communicate informed tactical and strategic business objectives. Prerequisite(s): BUS 244
This course is designed to show students how to create fairness and equity when building a sound and equitable wage structure. Wage and salary administration is developed to enhance employee motivation. Job analysis, job evaluation and performance appraisal are presented as vehicles for advancing the understanding of fairness as it applies to both internal and external wage equity. Pay models are designed to be consistent with the legal framework as it applies to the job market. Competitiveness in performing a job is explored when considering a merit or seniority pay system.
Business analytics focuses on decision-making enhanced by electronic spreadsheets. It introduces students to a collection of quantitative tools designed to enhance managerial decision-making. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial and capital budgeting, forecasting, inventory control models and linear programming. Extensive use of an electronic spreadsheet will be used in this course. This is a capstone course in the Business Administration option AAS degree program. Prerequisite(s): ACC 156 or ACC 165 and FIN 220
This is a capstone course in business that integrates managerial, financial, marketing and accounting principles in strategic decision-making. The case methods/simulation method of instruction will be used for problem identification, analysis and solution. Prerequisite(s): 45 Credits in Business Courses
A coordinated period of supervised work experience in organizations that will offer students the opportunity to acquire competence in their chosen area of specialization.
Source: Westmoreland County Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
