Program Information
The Business Management Certificate is an entry-level certification. All courses can be applied towards the Business Associate in Science degree. As a business management major, you will learn about the functional areas of typical businesses. Topics of study include accounting, finance, human resources, production, information systems, and marketing.
Program Outcomes
Graduates will be able to:
- Create all phases of a business plan.
- Explain core economic terms, concepts, and theories at the micro and macro levels.
- Analyze business transactions and complete the accounting cycle.
- Identify, formulate, and provide innovative solution frameworks to real-world business cases by applying modern quantitative and qualitative problem-solving tools and techniques.
- Demonstrate knowledge of culturally diverse work environments and behaviors.
- Develop oral, written, and visual communication skills to inform and influence business processes.
Curriculum
First Semester
ACCT 110
Financial Accounting – 3 Credits
The accounting cycle in various types of enterprises is examined. Included is the practical application of principles. 3-0-3
BUSM 112
Principles of Management – 3 Credits
This course introduces the roles and responsibilities of current managers. It focuses on the basic functions of the
management process – Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling and on the application of these functions through
case study application. 3-0-3
BUSM 255
Macroeconomics – 3 Credits
Macroeconomics examines the aggregate economy with a specific focus on unemployment, inflation, business cycles, and growth. Topics include economic reasoning, the economic organization of society, supply and demand, U.S. economic institutions, the world economy, national income accounting, money, banking, and the financial sector, the modern macro debate about the aggregate production/aggregate expenditures model, demand management and fiscal policy, monetary policy, the relationship between inflation, unemployment, and growth, international dimensions of monetary and fiscal policies, exchange rate and trade policy, traditional macro policy, supply-side macro policy, deficits and debt, and transitional economies. 3-0-3
CIST 100
Introduction to Information Technology – 3 Credits
Introduction to Information Technology introduces concepts and practical applications related to current technology. Changing global and personal growth patterns are examined along with ethical issues, security, and privacy concerns. Professional communication is stressed as students learn skills using Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), are examined in educational and professional settings. 3-0-3
Business Elective
Some options include:
BUSM 200 – Business Finance
BUSM 205 – Business Law
BUSM 241 – Human Resource Management
BUSM 260 – Business Management
COMM 230 – Event and Media Planning
BUSC 110 – Interpersonal Communications
*Not all courses are available every semester, please check with your faculty advisor to see what is available.
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Second Semester
ACCT 111
Managerial Accounting – 3 Credits
This course is a continuation of Financial Accounting with an emphasis on the use of accounting data in decision-making, cost accounting, and statement analysis. 3-0-3
Prerequisite: ACCT110
BUSM 108
Entrepreneurship – 3 Credits
The course explores the challenges and problems of small business operations including business plans and funding, forms and records, financial problems, ordering and inventory, layout of equipment and offices, methods of improving business, and employer-employee relations. 3-0-3
BUSM 245
Principles of Marketing – 3 Credits
The four Ps of the marketing mix, product, place, promotion, and price are studied and applied to current market issues. The concepts and techniques used in product development, pricing tactics, promoting a product, and choosing a distribution channel are outlined. Some of the quantitative aspects of marketing analysis are covered. 3-0-3
BUSM 256
Microeconomics – 3 Credits
Microeconomics is the study of individual choice, and how that choice is influenced by economic forces. It considers economic reasoning from the viewpoint of the individual. Microeconomics focuses on the pricing policies of firms, households’ decisions on what to buy, and how markets allocate resources among alternative ends. Topics include supply and demand elasticities, individual choice and the foundation of supply and demand, production and cost analysis, perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly strategic pricing, competition in the real world, politics and economics, and the case of agricultural markets, microeconomics policy and economic reasoning, government’s role in the economy, the economic impact on the environment, the antitrust and industrial policy the distribution of income, the labor market, non-wage and asset income, international trade restrictions, growth and the microeconomics of developing countries, and socialist economies in transition. 3-0-3
Prerequisite: BUSM255 or ECON255
DATA 110
Fundamentals of Business Intelligence & Data Analytics – 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics is an introduction to the fundamental concepts and technologies in business intelligence, data analytics, and data science. Students are exposed to various analytic techniques underlying distributed storage and efficient analysis of large amounts of data. An overview of approaches used to extract information and knowledge from data, verification, testing, and presentation of results. Software tools are used to provide decision-makers with accurate and timely information. Current data analytics tools are examined. 3-0-3
