Business Administration Transfer, AS

Program Learning Outcomes

• Use business terms and concepts when communicating.

• Analyze data to verify accuracy of conclusions.

• Prepare reports for decision-making and regulatory compliance.

• Explain the financial concepts used in making business decisions.

• Use effective communication skills to promote respect, trust and relationships.

• Practice active listening to enhance the ability to get a clear understanding of difficult situations.

• Involve others in the decision making process which helps to improve worker morale.

• Practice an awareness of ethical and social responsibilities to multi-cultural, team-oriented, rapidly changing environments.

• Utilize information by applying a variety of business and industry standard software and hardware to major business functions (e.g., marketing, accounting, and human resource management).

• Select and use appropriate resources to collect business data that will ultimately translate into information for decision making.

• Explain the distribution concepts and processes needed to move, store, locate, and transfer ownership of goods or services.

• Apply pricing concepts and strategies to maximize return on investment and that meet the customers’ perceptions of value.

• Use the marketing information management concepts, systems, and tools needed to obtain, evaluate, and disseminate information for use 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.

• Practice critical and creative thinking to improve the decision making process.

• Use appropriate leadership skills and styles to maximize employee productivity.

• Conduct research to identify new business trends and customer needs.

• Identify customer satisfaction as the ultimate goal.

• Use quantitative measurements to solve business problems related to payroll, taxes, percentages, future value of money and to be able to make better business decisions.

• Use knowledge gained in general education courses to advance their ability to get a job or move on to a four-year college.

1st Semester

• PRE 100 - Preparation for Academic Achievement (1 credit)
• BUA 100 - Introduction to Business (3 credits)
• BUA 112 - Computers for Business Management (3 credits)
• ENG 101 - English Writing (3 credits)  Meets General Education requirement for this program
• MAT 128 - Precalculus I: College Algebra (4 credits)  Meets General Education requirement for this program
• SPE 101 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication (3 credits)  Meets General Education requirement for this program

2nd Semester

• ECO 201 - The American Economy I: Macroeconomic Theory (3 credits)
• General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Sciences  (3 credits)
• General Education Requirement: Biological and Physical Sciences  with lab (4 credits)
• General Education Requirement: Arts and Humanities  (3 credits)
• HLF-Elective - Health and Life Fitness Elective  (1 credit)

3rd Semester

• ACT 221 - Principles of Financial Accounting I (3 credits)
• ECO 202 - The American Economy II: Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)
• MGM 222 - Principles of Business Management (3 credits)
• MKT 223 - Marketing (3 credits)
• General Education Requirement: Social and Behavioral Sciences  (3 credits)

4th Semester

• ACT 222 - Principles of Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
• BUA 207 - Business Law (3 credits)
• HLF-Elective - Health and Life Fitness Elective  (1 credit)
• Business - Business Elective : Any ACT, BUA, MGM or MKT 3-credit course (3 credits)
• General Education Requirement: Physical Sciences  (4 credits)

Program Total 60