Business Mgmnt. Degree (BSM)
This curriculum prepares students for a business career immediately after graduation.
It includes basic courses in accounting, economics, business and business law.
Program Outcomes:
- Business Knowledge and Skills
- Use business terms and concepts when communicating.
- Analyze data to verify accuracy of conclusions.
- Prepare reports for decision making and regulatory compliance.
- Use promotional concepts and strategies, including personal selling, advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and publicity to communicate ideas about products, services, images, and ideas to achieve desired outcomes.
- Explain the financial concepts used in making business decisions.
- Interpersonal Interaction and Communication
- Use effective communications skills to promote respect, trust, and relationship building.
- Practice active listening to enhance the ability to get a clear understanding of difficult situations.
- Practice an awareness of ethical and social responsibilities to multicultural, team-oriented, rapidly changing environments.
- Information Management
- Use technology and electronic media to manage the work flow and to provide feedback.
- Analyze the functions, features, and limitations of different operating systems, environments, applications, and utilities.
- Business Management and Decision Making
Explain the economic effects of technology on business in a global marketplace. Select and use appropriate resources to collect business data that will ultimately translate into information for decision making.
- Analyze specific economic markets to explain and predict financial behavioral changes.
- Explain the distribution concepts and processes needed to move, store, locate, and transfer ownership of goods or services.
- Use the marketing information management concepts, systems, and tools needed to obtain,evaluate, and disseminate information for us in making marketing decisions.
- Analyze client needs and desires and make marketing recommendations regarding business decisions.
- Develop, maintain, and improve a product or service mix in response to market opportunities by applying product and service management concepts and processes.
- Conduct research to identify new business trends and customer/client needs. Identify customer satisfaction as the ultimate goal of business transactions.
Requirements
First Semester
| BUS 101 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 111 | Principles of Business | 3 |
| MAT 105 | College Algebra | 4 |
| | General Education Requirements | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Second Semester
| BUS 102 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 107 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 106 | Principles of Finance | 3 |
| | General Education Requirements | 6 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Third Semester
| BUS 230 | Business Law and Contracts | 3 |
| | Or | |
| BUS 231 | Bus Law & Comm Trans | 3 |
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| ECO 101 | Principles of Economics I-Macroeconomics | 3 |
| BUS 242 | Business Communications | 3 |
| | General Education Requirements | 3 |
| | Electives | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
ECO 101: This course may be applied toward general education requirements.
Fourth Semester
| BUS 208 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| CPS 111 | Business Computer Systems | 3 |
| BUS 253 | Successful Career & Life Strategies | 2 |
| ECO 102 | Principles of Economics II | 3 |
| | General Education Requirements | 5 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
ECO 102: This course may be applied toward general education requirements.
Total Credit Hours: 62
Candidates for the Associate in Applied Science degree must earn a minimum of 23 semester hours in general education courses.