16 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 100Introduction to Business3
Exposes students to the functions and topics of modern business, including economics, management, finance, accounting, marketing, production, international business, small business, and other areas of general business interest. Guides students in establishing a viable business vocabulary, fostering critical and analytical thinking, and refining business decision-making skills. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Covers interpersonal relations in hierarchical structures. Examines the dynamics of teamwork, motivation, handling change and conflict, and how to achieve positive results through others. Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Applies mathematical operations to business process and problems such as wages and payroll, sales and property taxes, checkbook records and bank reconciliation, depreciation, overhead, distribution of profit and loss in partnerships, distribution of corporate dividends, commercial discounts, markup, markdown, simple interest, present values, bank discount notes, multiple payment plans, compound interest annuities, sinking funds, and amortization. Course has MTH 130 or Departmental Approval as a prerequisite. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Introduces the complete process of grant proposal development. Focuses on identifying achievable and fundable projects and preparing a full proposal package for submission. Presents strategies to seek external grant funding from private, community, and corporate foundations Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Focuses on mobilizing existing supporters and attracting new donors as a critical function of nonprofits’ fundraising programs. Examines the impact of nonprofits on the community’s awareness and understanding of an organization’s brand. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Examines nonprofit revenue sources. Provides students with practical knowledge to demonstrate fundraising and resource development skills and acumen. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Identifies management concerns unique to small businesses. Introduces the requirements necessary to initiate a small business, and identifies the elements comprising a business plan. Presents information establishing financial and administrative controls, developing a marketing strategy, managing business operations, and the legal and government relationships specific to small businesses. Lecture Hours per Week: 3
BUS 167Financial Management for Non-Profit Organizations3
Presents strategies to develop and sustain fiscal responsibility throughout a nonprofit organization, including the understanding of roles and responsibilities of the board of directors, and management and staff. Examines the unique position of nonprofit organizations and their complex interrelationships with both the public and private sectors. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
BUS 168Leading and Managing a Nonprofit Organization3
Provides an overview of the management skills required by leaders of nonprofit organizations as well as the purpose of the organization and its place in society. Discusses the challenges leaders and managers face in increasing nonprofit organizational effectiveness. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Presents the fundamentals of managing volunteers in an organization, including the philosophy of volunteerism and recruiting, orienting, training, engaging and recognizing the individuals who volunteer. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
BUS 190Coordinated Internship in Non-Profit Management3
Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course’s viability as a permanent offering.
Teaches management and the management functions of planning organizing, leading, and controlling. Focuses on application of management principles to realistic situations managers encounter as they attempt to achieve organizational objectives. Lecture Hours per Week: 3
Provides an introduction to the American legal system and the use of law to achieve economic and social goals. Highlights ethical principles and legal reasoning underlying the rights and obligations of business relationships and their effect on business decision-making. Emphasizes fundamental principles of government regulation and the court system, constitutional law, torts, criminal law, contracts, agency, employment, and property law. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Focuses on intra- and interpersonal communication effectiveness in the business organization. Includes topics such as planning and running effective meetings, networking and politicking, coaching and mentoring, making effectual and ethical decisions, developing team-building strategies, and practicing proficient skills in verbal, non-verbal, and written communications. Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student’s occupational objective and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours. (1-5 credits) Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
Supervises an on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial or service firm coordinated by the College’s Cooperative Education office. Is applicable to all occupational-technical curricula at the discretion of the College. Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours. (1-5 credits) Lecture Hours per Week: 3 Total Hours per week 3
