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  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Business/Computer Information Systems",
  "id": "management-and-entrepreneurship-certificate-of-achievement",
  "name": "Management and Entrepreneurship",
  "award": "Certificate of Achievement",
  "department": "business-computer-information-systems",
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      "markdown": "##### Program Description\n\nThis certificate will provide students with the research skills, critical thinking, and business tools necessary to plan a new business, make it operational, and manage it. The courses in this certificate will give students the skills to make appropriate business decisions and recognize when professional counsel (e.g., certified public accountants, lawyers, etc.) is needed to make those decisions. This certificate will also help students to effectively operate and manage the new business once it's operational.\n\n**\n\n##### Career Opportunities\n\n**\n\nCreating own business, Self-employment, Management\n\n**\n\n##### Learning Outcome(s)\n\n**\n\n1.  Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to business decisions at various stages of a business's life.\n2.  Demonstrate ability to navigate relevant laws in business related to business formation, business operations, human resources, and other business decisions, including ethical implications.\n3.  Create effective oral and written business communications that focus on the needs of the business and the recipient's role in relation to the business.\n4.  Apply accounting principles to business decision making."
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          "title": "Financial Accounting",
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          "code": "BUS 7",
          "title": "Entrepreneurial Law",
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          "code": "BUS 8",
          "title": "Business Ethics and Leadership",
          "units": "3",
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS 9",
          "title": "Introduction to Management",
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          "indent": false
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          "text": "Select one of the following courses:",
          "units": "3"
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          "code": "BUS 19",
          "title": "Business Communications",
          "units": "3",
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          "code": "BUS 54",
          "title": "Small Business Management",
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS 56",
          "title": "Human Resources Management",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select one of the following courses:",
          "units": "3-4"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS 1B",
          "title": "Managerial Accounting",
          "units": "4",
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ECON C2001",
          "title": "Principles of Microeconomics",
          "units": "3",
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          "code": "ECON C2002",
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