# Business (BUS) courses

Butte College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 14 courses

Source: https://butte.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/25393/28400/27946

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027.

### BUS 8 — Introduction to Business Law

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** BUS 125
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 7 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

Fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions. Introduction to the legal process. Topics include sources of law and ethics, contracts, torts, agency, criminal law, business organizations, and judicial and administrative processes. (C-ID BUS 125).

### BUS 20 — Introduction to Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** BUS 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 14 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 9 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course is survey of 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. Students will learn about how this business context (including issues such as ethics and sustainability) influences 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 and securities market; and therefore affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. (C-ID BUS 110).

### BUS 25 — Introduction to Entrepreneurship

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course covers the practical considerations, challenges and rewards associated with starting and operating a small business. The course explores how to identify small business opportunities; the factors influencing entrepreneurial success; and financing, marketing, managing, record-keeping and computer applications to support small business operations. Each student will identify a business opportunity, then create a detailed business plan.

### BUS 35 — Leading and Supervising Teams

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course invites current and future managers to build foundational skills for leading teams of employees in a diverse, multicultural work environment. The focus is on self-assessment, analyzing to understand work situations, as well as developing leadership skills and strategies. This course emphasizes individual factors impacting success including communication skills, conflict resolution, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and business ethics.

### BUS 40 — Introduction to Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course examines managerial concepts, approaches and tools relevant for organizations operating in today's dynamic, technology-infused and globally-competitive business environment. Focus will be placed on three fundamental management functions: planning, organizing and controlling within an ethics and contingency management framework. Students will explore established perspectives and guidelines as they develop competencies to assist managers in understanding and addressing organizational problems.

### BUS 44 — Human Resource Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course highlights complex and important issues in current human resources practice, and demonstrates how managers can effectively manage human resources. The course explores Human Resource Management (HRM) issues for today's companies: changing government and legal requirements; new information systems; downsizing; demands for a more skilled workforce; increasing attention to and appreciation for diversity; the global workforce and intensifying global competition; and changing cultural and economic factors.

### BUS 46 — Project Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course prepares students for entry-level project management roles by covering essential competencies in project scope, procurement, time, risk, cost, quality, human resources, communication, and integration management. Through a blend of theoretical foundations and hands-on applications, students will gain transferable skills to manage projects across various industries effectively. The course aligns with key Project Management Professional (PMP) domains, providing foundational knowledge beneficial for PMP certification and immediate application in the job market.

### BUS 50 — Sales Strategies

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course introduces personal selling concepts, processes and tools. It emphasizes the importance of ethical, professional conduct; an understanding of consumer behavior; needs-satisfaction selling; and effective two-way communication. Students learn how to find and qualify prospects; establish rapport; ask questions to determine customers' needs; present pertinent product/service features, advantages and benefits; overcome buyers' objections; and close the sale. Students will participate (as buyers, sellers and critical observers) in interactive sales presentations.

### BUS 60 — Advertising and Promotion

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course introduces students to the function of promotion in relation to business and society. It looks at promotion as a social and economic institution. Emphasis is placed on integrating marketing communications across multiple platforms including social media and other online spaces to achieve the organizations objective.

### BUS 62 — Money & Happiness: Cultural, Psychological and Economic Factors

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course integrates practical financial decision making with the social, psychological, and physiological contexts in which decisions are made. Students will examine the role of money in their lives, set personal goals, and develop plans to meet those goals. Topics include cultural attitudes and beliefs about money, money and relationships, money personalities, consumerism, debt, healthcare, investing, retirement, long-term care, disability, death, and taxes.

### BUS 64 — Principles of Marketing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course explores the nature, function and importance of marketing. It focuses on conducting opportunity analysis, assessing consumer behavior, engaging in marketing research, and target marketing as the basis for devising marketing objectives and plans. Students will develop and assess marketing strategies to meet the needs of consumer and Business-to-Business (B2B) target markets using the "4 P's": product, promotion, price and place. The emphasis is on ethics, needs-satisfaction, and relationship marketing in today's global, technology-infused, competitive environment.

### BUS 68 — Web Marketing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 51 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)

This course introduces students to web marketing tools, strategies, application and measurement. It examines benefits and challenges associated with web marketing technologies including web site development, search engine optimization, online advertising, social media, email campaigns, blog marketing, digital public relations, multimedia and mobile marketing. Students will learn how to create a web marketing strategy and then apply web marketing technologies in a measurable way to achieve business objectives.

### BUS 97 — Special Problems-BUS

- **Units:** 1-3
- **Hours:** 51-153 hours independent study
- **Prerequisite:** Permission of instructor
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules

Supervised study and practice in solving special problems in the student's career major. Any student interested in registering for a Special Problems course should contact a full-time instructor or chair/coordinator in the appropriate area no later than the last day of the tenth week of instruction. Students may not petition for a Special Problems course until they have completed satisfactorily 12 units of study at Butte College. 51-153 hours Independent Study. This course may be repeated to a maximum of 3.00 units.

### BUS 99 — Work Experience-BUS

- **Units:** 0.5-8
- **Hours:** 25.5-408 hours independent study
- **Prerequisite:** Permission of Work Experience Education instructor and employment supervisor
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules

Work experience is an experiential course where students apply what they have learned in the classroom to a work environment. The course offers students the opportunity to develop technical skills, explore possible career choices, build confidence, network with people in the field, and transition into the world of work. Work experience may include paid or unpaid employment. Students may earn one semester unit of college credit in this course for every fifty-one hours of work experience. Students may enroll in this course up to 8 unit(s) to complete the entire curriculum of the course. A maximum of sixteen units can be earned in work experience courses during a student’s enrollment with Butte College.