| FIRST YEAR | |||
| First Semester | Hours | ||
| BUS-142 | Introduction to Business BUS-142 Covers the objectives, organization, and role of business in the free-enterprise system. The course is designed to provide an overview of the field of business and to provide a framework into which specialized fields may be studied.
Introduction to Business Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-094 | Business Math ORBUS-094 Covers basic applications of mathematics in the business world - fractions, decimals, percentages, elementary algebra, banking, buying and selling, payroll and interest. It is designed to reinforce and expand business concepts through the use of mathematics.
Business Math Course Outline | ||
| --- --- | Math Elective --- ---
Math Elective | 3.0 | |
| ENG-119 | Composition I Pathway ORENG-119 Students will study the writing process by reading essays illustrating a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing texts and writing, revising and editing short essays. Course is for students who have assessed into developmental English, receiving supplemental instruction for course completion.
Composition I Pathway Course Outline | ||
| ENG-120 | Composition I *ENG-120 Students develop a writing process by reading and analyzing texts that illustrate various rhetorical strategies as well as writing, revising and editing short essays. Minimally, students must compose four formal, revised writing assignments, having one reach at least 1,250 words.
Composition I Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| COM-111 | Intro to Speech Communication COM-111 Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selecting, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence and points of view to audiences.
Intro to Speech Communication Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| --- --- | Business Elective --- ---
Business Elective | 2.0 | |
Semester Totals |
14.0 | ||
| Second Semester | |||
| BUS-251 | Principles of Management BUS-251 Provides an overview of how managers utilize planning, organization, leadership, and control in order to ensure that a firm achieves its goals in the most efficient way possible.
Principles of Management Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-247 | Principles of Marketing BUS-247 Covers the selection of target markets; the controllable variables of the marketing mix including product, place, price and promotion; and the uncontrollable variables including legal environment, economic environment and cultural environment.
Principles of Marketing Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| CIS-160 | Practical Software Applications CIS-160 Provides an opportunity for students to learn computer concepts and to use word processing, spreadsheet, database management, and presentation software. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Practical Software Applications Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| ENG-121 | Composition II *ENG-121 Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
Composition II Course Outline | 3.0 | |
Semester Totals |
12.0 | ||
| Summer Term | |||
| BUS-091 | Prin of Advertising ++++BUS-091 Provides an overview of integrated marketing communications, promotional strategy, research, creativity, the role of an advertising agency and other support organizations, media selection and assessment, ethical and regulatory considerations, and budgetary allocations.
Prin of Advertising Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-090 | Prin of Retailing ++++BUS-090 Designed for those owning or planning to become owners of a retail business, those involved or planning to become involved in the management function of a retail business, and/or those desiring a general knowledge of retailing as an institution.
Prin of Retailing Course Outline | 3.0 | |
Semester Totals |
6.0 | ||
| SECOND YEAR | |||
| First Semester | Hours | ||
| BUS-151 | Financial Accounting *BUS-151 A study of the financial statements, the accounting process and the principles and procedures underlying items on the financial statements.
Financial Accounting Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-141 | Business Communications BUS-141 Provides students with practical strategies for improving written and oral communication, including employment communication, in business settings.
Business Communications Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| ECO-231 | Principles of Economics I (Macro) ECO-231 Focuses on the nature and method of economics, basic supply and demand analysis, national income accounting, business cycles, inflation and unemployment, fiscal policy, money and banking and monetary policy.
Principles of Economics I (Macro) Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-200 | Legal Environ/Business BUS-200 An introduction to legal systems and law, especially the U.S. legal system. Business-legal relationships in the areas of criminal law, torts, product liability and contracts are examined. Consumer, labor and environmental law are studied.
Legal Environ/Business Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-092 | Principles of Selling BUS-092 Covers the various aspects of the personal selling process including organizational buying motives, consumer behavior, approaching the customer, making the presentation, handling objections, techniques for closing the sale, and managing the salesforce.
Principles of Selling Course Outline | 3.0 | |
Semester Totals |
15.0 | ||
| Second Semester | |||
| PSY-271 | Intr/Psychology PSY-271 Focuses on psychology as a science, presenting concepts, research methods and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy and social psychology.
Intr/Psychology Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| ECO-232 | Principles of Economics II (Micro) * ORECO-232 Focuses on free enterprise and the economic functions of government, advanced supply and demand analysis, pricing in competitive/non-competitive markets and pricing in resource markets.
Principles of Economics II (Micro) Course Outline | ||
| POS-162 | State/Local Govern POS-162 Focuses on legal authority, structure, leadership and functions of state, county, city, township and special district governments. The Illinois state constitution is analyzed.
State/Local Govern Course Outline | 3.0 | |
| BUS-134 | Principles of E-Marketing ORBUS-134 This course is a study of how an organization develops and uses its website, e-mail, wireless communication and social media efforts as part of an effective integrated marketing communication strategy.
Principles of E-Marketing Course Outline | ||
| --- --- | Business Elective --- ---
Business Elective | 2.0 | |
| BUS-057 | Marketing Internship ORBUS-057 Provides employment experience in a position consistent with the career objective of the student. The position must be approved by the program director. This fall or spring semester course may be taken as the first or second student internship.
Marketing Internship Course Outline | ||
| --- --- | Business Elective --- ---
Business Elective | 4.0 | |
| BUS-056 | Marketing Seminar ORBUS-056 Enables the student to participate in discussions relating to successful employment. The student must complete a project relating to his/her job.
Marketing Seminar Course Outline | ||
| -- --- | Business Elective -- ---
Business Elective | 1.0 | |
Semester Totals |
13.0 | ||
Total Program Hours | 60.0 | ||