BUS 100- Introduction to Business
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.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 111- Principles of Supervision I
Teaches the fundamentals of supervision, including the primary responsibilities of the supervisor. Introduces factors relating to the work of supervisor and subordinates. Covers aspects of leadership, job management, work improvement, training and orientation, performance evaluation, and effective employee/ supervisor relationships.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 116- Entrepreneurship
Presents the various steps considered necessary when going into business. Includes areas such as product-service analysis, market research evaluation, setting up books, ways to finance startup, operations of the business, development of business plans, buyouts versus starting from scratch, and franchising. Uses problems and cases to demonstrate implementation of these techniques.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 117- Leadership Development
Covers interpersonal relations in hierarchical structures. Examines the dynamics of teamwork, motivation, handling change and conflict and how to achieve positive results through others.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 125- Applied Business Mathematics
Applies mathematical operations to business processes 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.
Prerequisite: MTH 130 or higher
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 130- Maritime Logistics Afloat
Examines the technician and mid-level management responsibilities required to perform all tasks relative to maritime logistics operations afloat using current occupational standards for Logisticians. Discusses the three major topic areas of the Naval Supply System of Inventory, logistics, and financial management.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 131- Maritime Logistics Ashore
Examines the technician and mid-level management responsibilities required to perform all tasks relative to ashore maritime logistics. Focuses on current occupational standards for Logisticians. Discusses the three major topic areas in the Naval Supply System of Inventory, logistics, and financial management.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 165- Small Business Management
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.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 200- Principles of Management
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.
Prerequisite: BUS 100
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 201- Organizational Behavior
Presents a behaviorally oriented course combining the functions of management with the psychology of leading and managing people. Focuses on the effective use of human resources through understanding human motivation and behavior patterns, conflict management and resolution, group functioning and process, the psychology of decision-making, and the importance of recognizing and managing change.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 204- Project Management
Provides students with knowledge of essential skills and techniques necessary to lead or participate in projects assigned to managerial personnel. Covers time and task scheduling, resource management, problem solving strategies and other areas related to managing a project.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 205- Human Resource Management
Introduces employment, selection, and placement of personnel, forecasting, job analysis, job descriptions, training methods and programs, employee evaluation systems, compensation, benefits, and labor relations.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 215- Purchasing and Materials Management
Teaches the principles of effective purchasing and management of materials and equipment. Includes determination of requirements, source selection, pricing, value analysis, contracting, inventory management, and equipment requisition decisions.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 216- Probability and Statistics for Business and Economics
Introduces methods of probability assessment and statistical inference. Includes data collection and presentation; descriptive statistics; basic probability concepts; discrete and continuous probability distributions; decision theory; sampling and estimation; and hypothesis testing. Emphasizes business and economic applications. Utilizes computer software as a tool for problem solving.
Prerequisite: MTH 161 or higher
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 220- Introduction to Business Statistics
Introduces statistics as a tool in decision-making. Emphasizes ability to collect, present, and analyze data. Employs measures of central tendency and dispersion, statistical inference, index numbers, probability theory, and time series analysis.
Prerequisite: MTH 130 or higher
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 223- Distribution and Transportation
Examines the background and history of transportation, emphasizing the fundamental role and importance the industry plays in companies, society, and the environment in which transportation service is provided. Provides an overview of carrier operations, management, technology, and strategies including transportation regulations and public policy.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 224- Business Statistics
Introduces methods of probability assessment and statistical inference. Includes data presentation; descriptive statistics; basic probability concepts; discrete and continuous probability distributions; decision theory; estimation and sampling distributions; Central Limit Theorem; simple linear regression and hypothesis testing for a single sample or population. Emphasizes business and economic applications. Utilizes computer software as a tool for problem-solving.
Prerequisite: MTH 161
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 227- Business Analytics
Includes overview of quantitative methods in business decision-making, simple and multiple regression and correlation analysis, time series analysis and business forecasting, decision analysis, linear programming, transportation and assignment methods, and network models. May include computer applications.
Prerequisite: BUS 224 or MTH 245
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 234- Supply Chain Management
Examines the process of planning, organizing, and controlling the flow of materials and services from supplier to end users/customers. Focuses on coordinating supply management, operations and integrated logistics into a seamless pipeline to maintain a continual flow of products and services.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 236- Communication in Management
Introduces the functions of communication in management with emphasis on gathering, organizing, and transmitting facts and ideas. Teaches the basic techniques of effective oral and written communication.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 240- Introduction to Business Law
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.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 241- Business Law I
Develops a basic understanding of U.S. business legal environment. Introduces property and contract law, agency and partnership liability and government regulatory law. Students will be able to apply these legal principles to the landlord/tenant disputes, consumer rights issues, employment relationships and other business transactions.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 242- Business Law II
Focuses on business organization and dissolution, bankruptcy and Uniform Commercial Code. Introduces international law and the emerging fields of E-Commerce and Internet Law.
Prerequisite: BUS 241
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 255- Inventory and Warehouse Management
Emphasizes the relationships of inventory and warehouse management to customer service and profitability of the wholesale distributor. Focuses on the role of computerized systems and resulting information for effective management of inventory and the warehouse under various conditions.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 260- Planning for Small Business
Provides knowledge of the development of a business plan, which can be used to acquire capital and serve as a management guide. Combines knowledge that has been acquired in the areas of planning, management, and finance using proforma statements and marketing. Covers internet searching techniques. Recommended as a capstone course.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 2 | Lecture Hours: 2 | Contact Hours: 2
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BUS 265- Ethical Issues in Management
Examines the legal, ethical, and social responsibilities of management. May use cases to develop the ability to think and act responsibly.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 270- Interpersonal Dynamics
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.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 274- Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Introduces students to the principles of entrepreneurship, covering business models, responsibilities, and successful practices. BUS 274 serves both transfer and CTE programs.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 280- Introduction to International Business
Studies the problems, challenges, and opportunities which arise when business operations or organizations transcend national boundaries. Examines the functions of international business in the economy, international and transnational marketing, production, and financial operations.
Prerequisite: BUS 100
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 290- Coordinated Internship
Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college. Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 297- Cooperative Education
Supervised on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms 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.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 0 | Contact Hours: 3
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BUS 299- Supervised Study in Business Management and Administration
Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Credit Hours: 3 | Lecture Hours: 3 | Contact Hours: 3
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