General Business

Business

A.A.S. Degree (D,G,W)

General Business is tailored to enable students to combine studies in non-business and business courses that best match their individual education goals. This program is intended for full-time business students who plan to transfer to a four-year business college or university after graduation before entering the workforce. This flexibility affords students a unique preparation for continued business studies at an institution of higher learning as well as preparation for professional and technical careers requiring basic business and specific technical skills.

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Integrate professional, ethical and legal standards into business practice.
2. Employ the various theories of management and marketing in a business.
3. Apply the principles of human resource management to organizations.
4. Evaluate the actions taken to acquire and retain customers.
5. Measure and track financial performance of an organization.
6. Analyze and apply the strategic management process to organizations

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Graduation Requirements

Core Courses

ECO 111	Macroeconomics	3
ECO 122	Microeconomics	3
ENG 101	Composition I	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
MAT 152	Quantitative Reasoning	3
SSC 100	First Year Seminar	1

Program/Major Courses

ACC 101	Accounting I	3
ACC 112	Accounting II	3
BUS 101	Introduction to Business	3
BUS 203	Business Law	3
BUS 275	Portfolio and Professionalism	3
FIN 221	Money and Banking	3
MGT 212	Principles of Management	3
MKT 212	Principles of Marketing	3

Select 2 course(s) from:

ACC 162	Computerized Accounting	3
MGT 218	Small Business Management	3
MGT 231	Human Resources Management	3
MKT 214	Advertising and Promotion	3
MKT 219	Sales and Sales Management	3
OAT 121	Keyboarding	3
OAT 157	Word Level I	3
OAT 159	PowerPoint	3
OAT 242	Desktop Publishing	4
OAT 251	Access	3
OAT 258	Word Level II	3
SSC 130	Where’s My Money?	1
	And
SSC 131	Are You Credit Worthy?	1
	And
SSC 132	Planning for the Beach? â€" Saving, Investing, and Risk Protection	1

Program/Major Support Courses

CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
MIS 220	Management Information Systems	3
OAT 152	Excel	3
SOC 215	Business Ethics	3

Select 1 course(s) from:

ENG 122	Technical Writing and Communication	3
ENG 124	Oral Communications	3
HIS 111	United States History: Pre-Civil War	3
HIS 112	United States History Post-Civil War	3
PSY 121	General Psychology	3
SOC 111	Sociology	3
SPA 136	Spanish Communication I	4

Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)

Semester 1

SSC 100	First Year Seminar	1
ACC 101	Accounting I	3
BUS 101	Introduction to Business	3
CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
ENG 101	Composition I	3
MAT 152	Quantitative Reasoning	3

Semester 2

ACC 112	Accounting II	3
OAT 152	Excel	3
ECO 111	Macroeconomics	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
MKT 212	Principles of Marketing	3

Semester 3

ECO 122	Microeconomics	3
FIN 221	Money and Banking	3
MGT 212	Principles of Management	3
MIS 220	Management Information Systems	3
Elective	Social Science Elective	3

Semester 4

BUS 203	Business Law	3
SOC 215	Business Ethics	3
Elective	Major Elective	4/3
Elective	Major Elective	4/3
BUS 275	Portfolio and Professionalism	3

Approved Electives

Select one (1) social science/humanities elective.

ENG 122	Technical Writing and Communication	3
ENG 124	Oral Communications	3
HIS 111	United States History: Pre-Civil War	3
HIS 112	United States History Post-Civil War	3
PSY 121	General Psychology	3
SOC 111	Sociology	3
SPA 136	Spanish Communication I	4

Select two (2) major electives.

MGT 218	Small Business Management	3
MGT 231	Human Resources Management	3
MKT 214	Advertising and Promotion	3
MKT 219	Sales and Sales Management	3
OAT 121	Keyboarding	3
OAT 251	Access	3
OAT 157	Word Level I	3
OAT 258	Word Level II	3
OAT 159	PowerPoint	3
OAT 242	Desktop Publishing	4
ACC 162	Computerized Accounting	3
SSC 130	Where’s My Money?	1
	And
SSC 131	Are You Credit Worthy?	1
	And
SSC 132	Planning for the Beach? â€" Saving, Investing, and Risk Protection	1

To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 61 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.

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