Business (BUS) Courses
BUS 100 English for the Professional
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course is designed to prepare the student for business communication. It presents principles of correct and effective English usage as applied in business. The course focuses on skills and techniques of effective business written communication including appropriate sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, spelling, business vocabulary, and business document formatting. Critical thinking and effective writing techniques are emphasized. This course focuses on teaching students the ability to analyze, compose, and organize written communication into effective business documents. Proofreading skills are stressed throughout the course. This course is required of all business technology majors and recommended for all business majors.
BUS 295 Independent Studies in Business
- Units:1 - 3
- Hours:54 - 162 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
BUS 299 Experimental Offering in Business
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This is the experimental courses description.
BUS 300 Introduction to Business
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: BUS 300 and BUS 330 combined: maximum credit, one course
)
- C-ID:C-ID BUS 110
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course provides a survey of various business areas, including accounting, regulation, negotiation, ethics, information technology, management, marketing, global competition, economics, finance, environmental factors, implementation, communications, leadership, and business planning. The course is designed to be taken by all beginning students interested in business.
BUS 302 Introduction to Business Analysis
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
Business analysis includes the practical skills to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness through business process improvement. This course teaches the essential business skills needed to implement activities and processes that solve basic business problems through the analysis of business data and information. Students will learn the basics of problem solving, analysis of data and information, and basic business mathematic equations, in order to improve business operations.
BUS 303 Introduction to Business Data and Data Analytics
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Advisory:MATH 120
- Transferable:CSU; UC
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course provides an introduction to the core concepts in data and information management. It is centered around the core skills of identifying organizational information requirements used to make business and management decisions. This course covers the fundamental database design, structures, and management systems. The course includes instruction in simple query language to build equity-relationship diagrams a study of data modeling and relational operations to provide management information solutions.
BUS 304 Introduction to Business Process Integration
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Advisory:ACCT 301
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course provides an introduction to business process integration through an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Key business processes including procurement, fulfillment, production, warehouse management, and material planning will be discussed. With hands-on practice, students will learn how to execute key business processes, understand the integrated nature of the processes, and their impact on financial accounting and inventory in the ERP system.
BUS 310 Business Communications
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:Eligibility for ENGWR 300
- Advisory:Ability to key 30 or more words a minute and use a current office-level word processing program.
- Transferable:CSU
- General Education:AA/AS Area II(a)
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course applies the theory and principles of ethical and effective written and oral communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents and creating and delivering professional-level oral reports using word processing software and presentation software. Analytical skills are used to plan, organize, compose, critique, and revise letters, memos, emails, and reports. Messages are broken into their component parts for a critical analysis of organization, content, style, tone, grammar, format, and appearance. Students conduct primary and secondary research to draw conclusions and make recommendations. A formal analytical research paper using APA or MLA style citations and graphics is required. The results of the formal research paper are presented in an oral presentation using presentation software.
BUS 320 Concepts in Personal Finance
- Same As:ECON 320
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU; UC
- General Education:AA/AS Area V(b); AA/AS Area III(b)
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course is designed to assist individuals in analyzing their financial affairs. Elements and conceptual basis of financial planning, analysis, and decision making in areas of budgeting, taxes, borrowing, money management, insurance, investments, and retirement will be examined with an emphasis on principles to develop students' economic decision making. Students will be using mathematical concepts as well as reading and interpreting written and oral instructions. This course is not open to students who have received credit for ECON 320.
BUS 330 Managing Diversity in the Workplace
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: BUS 300 and BUS 330 combined: maximum credit, one course.
)
- General Education:AA/AS Area V(b); AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area D; IGETC Area 4
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course examines the leadership skills and abilities needed to manage a multicultural workforce. A primary focus is placed upon the workplace impact of various historical, social, and cultural experiences/perspectives related to gender, age, ethnicity, race, and disability. Workforce issues related to the diversity of the American consumers' and global consumers' impact on the United States are analyzed.
BUS 340 Business Law
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU; UC (BUS 340 and 341: maximum credit, one course)
- General Education:AA/AS Area V(b)
- C-ID:C-ID BUS 125
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course is an introduction to law as it relates to business. The course covers the American legal system as an instrument of economic, social, and political control. It stresses basic business torts, crime and business, agency, employment, and the legal structures of business. Students may be required to subscribe to the weekly (M-F) edition of a general circulation newspaper.
BUS 345 Law and Society
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU; UC
- General Education:AA/AS Area V(b); CSU Area D; IGETC Area 4
- C-ID:C-ID BUS 120; C-ID LPPS 110
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course is an introduction to the American legal system emphasizing the nature, purpose, sources, and functions of American law but including some comparative analysis of other historical and contemporary legal systems. It stresses the evolution of legal concepts as a reflection of the social environment and the role of the judiciary in establishing social policy. Students may be required to subscribe to a daily newspaper and to bring the paper to class.
BUS 350 Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This class provides an overview of the various elements involved in starting and operating a small business. It introduces such topics as developing a business plan, finding financial resources, developing personal and business goals, meeting legal requirements, understanding marketing concepts, and other topics of interest to the entrepreneur.
BUS 355 Introduction to Global Entrepreneurship
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course provides an introduction to the various elements involved in the development of new global small businesses and the expansion of existing business to a global level. The course introduces topics including: successful traits of a global entrepreneur, the entrepreneur's role in the global economy, the basics of exporting, economic considerations in global business, sources of international marketing data, and international business relations across cultures. Emphasis will be placed on the principle concepts of global entrepreneurship.
BUS 356 Global Business Operations
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This class provides an overview of the necessary training to manage global business operations. The course will focus on strategies to effectively operate within differing cultures, following an efficient distribution plan, developing and achieving business goals, political and technological issues on a global scale, and other topics of interest to future participants in the global marketplace. Emphasis will be placed on operations which must be in place to foster global trade and exporting including logistics, trade regulations, economic considerations, and marketing.
BUS 357 Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and New Enterprise Development
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course explores the processes used by entrepreneurs to develop new innovative products and services. The course will provide an introduction to the tools, processes, and insights that are used to create, new innovative products for both domestic and foreign markets. Course topics include new business concept development, the role of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology in new venture development, the importance of intellectual property rights and protection, sources of capital and financing, market analysis and strategy, and business planning.
BUS 490 Individualized Projects in Business
- Units:1 - 4
- Hours:9 - 36 hours LEC; 27 - 108 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Advisory:At least two semesters of successful work leading to an Associate Degree or Certificate in Accounting, Business, Computer Information Science, Finance, Management, Marketing, Office Administration or other related field.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course is designed to help the student focus skills previously learned in an area of business. The student, with the help of the instructor, will produce a project that utilizes a variety of skills. The student will describe a problem, plan a process to arrive at a solution, work with the instructor to secure those resources necessary to complete the project, submit progress reports on a regular basis, and present a finished product. This class may be required for some degrees or certificates.
BUS 495 Independent Studies in Business
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Hours:27 - 216 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
BUS 498 Work Experience in Business
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Hours:27 - 216 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Enrollment Limitation:Student must be in a paid or non-paid internship, volunteer opportunity, or job related to career interests.
- Transferable:CSU
- General Education:AA/AS Area III(b)
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This course provides students with opportunities to develop marketable skills in preparation for employment or advancement within the field of Business. Course content will include understanding the application of education to the workforce; completing required forms which document the student's progress and hours spent at the work site; and developing workplace skills and competencies. Students must complete 27 hours of related paid or unpaid work experience for .5 unit. An additional 27 hours of related work experience is required for each additional .5 unit. The course may be taken for a maximum of 16 units. Students should have access to a computer, the Internet, and some computer media such as a USB drive to store data files. Online students must have an email account. Only one Work Experience course may be taken per semester.
BUS 499 Experimental Offering in Business
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:January 1, 2025
This is the experimental courses description.