Business Administration
4 Credit Hours
Explores the nature and scope of business, examines its component parts, and describes how businesses are organized and managed. Students will learn about the various internal and external forces that comprise our business and economic system.
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Explores career development opportunities and strategies. Stresses entry-level job requirements and upward career paths. Covers resume writing skills, interviewing techniques, and the importance of professionalism. Continues the student's orientation to Berkeley College’s computer framework, which includes content collection and compiling a professional e-portfolio.
4 Credit Hours
Provides students with detailed knowledge of the laws relating to contracts, commerce, property, sales, negotiable instruments, and employment. Students develop an awareness of business situations requiring legal counsel and a familiarization with the overall structure of the legal system.
4 Credit Hours
Examines the principles of ethics with relation to business decision-making and business strategies. Students learn how to integrate ethical decision-making into organizational behavior, strategy, and the challenges posed by the globalization of business practices.
Prerequisite: BUS100 or Principles course within major
2 Credit Hours
An introduction to computer-based applications and simulations in business. Students will learn the concepts and software used by business organizations in order to simulate real-life problem solving.
Prerequisites: BUS100, CIS115
4 Credit Hours
Examines the conversion of ideas into successful business ventures. Topics include developing ideas for entrepreneurial ventures, testing the feasibility of ideas, evaluating the impact of business ownership on a person’s lifestyle, preparing business plans, seeking expert advice, securing financing, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Prerequisite: BUS100
4 Credit Hours
An introduction to the ideas, decisions, policies, and practices facing organizations conducting business in technologically mediated environments. Topics include the various roles technology plays in business models, legal and social challenges, organizational requirements, financial expectations, and current business practices.
Prerequisite: BUS100
4 Credit Hours
Course examines the technical, economic, and organizational impact of complex interdependent work systems. Topics include the analysis of short- and long-term information needs and the communication of these needs to technical specialists and higher management.
Prerequisite: BUS100
4 Credit Hours
Involves readings and discussions organized around selected topics in business. Topics will vary from quarter to quarter.
4 Credit Hours
Provides an overview of various project management knowledge areas. Topics include project integration, scope, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement management. Students will use Microsoft Project software.
Prerequisite: BUS100
4 Credit Hours
Allows students to work in a position related to their course of study. Students integrate the skills and knowledge learned through their academic experiences and participate in focused online discussions and special online projects.
Prerequisites: BUS226 and departmental approval
4 Credit Hours
Provides an overview of the relationship between the financial system and the level, growth, and stability of economic activity. Emphasizes the theory, structure, and regulation of financial markets and institutions. Students also examine the role of capital market yields as the mechanism that allocates savings and investments.
Prerequisites: FIN301, SOC201, SOC202
4 Credit Hours
An introduction to the various specialties within the entertainment industry. Students examine various strategies and relationships among entertainment products.
4 Credit Hours
Provides an in-depth examination of the political, legal, ethical, and regulatory issues related to managerial decisions. Topics include commercial paper, real and personal property, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, agency, estate planning, and government regulations.
Prerequisite: BUS231
4 Credit Hours
Explores the processes and techniques of business research methods and their application to making effective and efficient decisions. Areas covered include defining a problem, selecting the method of research, ascertaining costs and benefits, and statistical tools and presentation.
Prerequisites: BUS100, MAT215
4 Credit Hours
An overview of the most recent theories and the current practices in strategic management. Examines the development and implementation of strategies in various areas of business activity (finance, sourcing, production, human resource management, marketing, and international business).
Prerequisites: FIN301, IBS201, MGT220, MKT220
4 Credit Hours
Allows students to work in a position related to their course of study. Students integrate the skills and knowledge learned through their academic experiences and participate in focused online discussions and special online projects.
Prerequisites: BUS226 and departmental approval
