Business

BUS 004     Business Plan Development     3 Units

This course provides students with essential tools and insights for developing a robust business plan tailored to launching a new business. Topics include market research, competitive analysis, organizational structure, marketing strategies, operational planning, and financial projections. It will explore funding options, budgeting techniques, and risk assessment to build a strong foundation for sustainable growth. Through hands-on exercises, case studies, and industry examples, students will gain practical experience and create a comprehensive business plan ready for real-world application.

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None

Transfer Status: CSU     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

Credit by Exam: Yes

BUS 006     Introduction to Small Business Management     3 Units

This course explores the complex process of entrepreneurship from identifying a viable business idea, to creating a successful start-up, including planning for growth and continuing innovation, as well as avoiding pitfalls while launching an idea into a business. This course provides an introduction for individuals seeking to create and manage a start-up business.

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 1

Transfer Status: CSU     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

Credit by Exam: Yes

BUS 009     Introduction to Entrepreneurship     3 Units

This course will cover the principles of entrepreneurship, and focus on the entrepreneurial process, opportunity recognition, entry strategies, market opportunities, the development of a successful business plan, and making financial projections.

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 1

Transfer Status: CSU     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

Credit by Exam: Yes

BUS 060     Fundamentals of Business Statistics     3 Units

This course introduces statistics with an emphasis on business applications. Students will collect, analyze, interpret, and present numerical data for the purpose of making more effective decisions. Topics include: collection and presentation of data, measures of central value and spread, probability, sampling and the sampling distribution of the sample average, estimation via confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression and correlation. (C-ID MATH 110)

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Prerequisite: Course taught at the level of intermediate algebra or placement as determined by the college's multiple measures assessment process Cal-GETC: 2 District GE: 2

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None

Transfer Status: CSU/UC     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

BUS 071     Legal Environment of Business     3 Units

Students study the fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions, and are introduced to the law as an instrument of social and political control in society. Topics include the sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, judicial and administrative processes, employment law, forms of business organizations, and domestic and international governmental regulations. (C-ID BUS 120)

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None

Transfer Status: CSU/UC     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

BUS 082     Introduction to Business     3 Units

Students are introduced to a survey in business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Special emphasis will be placed on how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock market; and therefore, affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. (C-ID BUS 110)

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 4 Write: 4 Math: 2

Transfer Status: CSU/UC     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

BUS 084     Introduction to Marketing Principles     3 Units

This course introduces the theory and practice of marketing as well as the integration of marketing activities of a business. It also covers marketing research, management of products and services, pricing policies and strategies, channels of distribution, physical distribution and logistics management, promotion strategies and tactics, government regulations, and marketing ethics.

Lecture Hours: 3  Lab Hours: None  Repeatable: No  Grading: L

Cal-GETC: None District GE: None

Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None

Transfer Status: CSU     Degree Applicable: AA/AS

Credit by Exam: Yes