Business Administration
26 courses · College of the Siskiyous · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Winter 2027 · Spring 2027
BA 0501 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.83 hours lecture weekly, 15 contact hours total
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational concepts, technologies, and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students will explore key topics such as machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, and ethical implications of AI. Through hands-on practice they will gain an understanding of how to effectively create prompts and how to use AI tools for the workplace.
BA 0502 Artificial Intelligence at Work: Skills for Business & Beyond
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.83 hours lecture weekly, 15 contact hours total
This hands-on course provides students with practical, job-ready skills to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence. Students will learn prompt engineering and effective communication with AI tools to maximize productivity. An AI-enhanced project tailored to a real-world business or workplace challenge will provide students practical experience.
BA 0503 Work Readiness: Basic Job Skills
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 2 hours lecture weekly, 36 contact hours total
A course is designed to assist students in developing career readiness skills and finding a career. These may include preparing for one's career, workplace skills, and career readiness skills, career planning, personal skills, including workplace communication, workplace effectiveness, and teamwork.
BA 0504 Communication in the Workplace
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.67 hours lecture weekly, 12 contact hours total
This course will assist students with skill building in their workplace communication. Communication in the workplace will consist of a study of the key elements of communication within business organizations. Topics covered in the course will include verbal and nonverbal communication, listening skills and specific workplace communication skills, including telephone and e-mail communication, and business letter writing.
BA 0505 Strategic Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.67 hours lecture weekly, 12 contact hours total
This course is designed to prepare students to strategically think and problem solve, and provides an introduction to decision-making and problem-solving techniques in the workplace. Specific strategies for making decisions and solving problems will be presented, as well as the use of creativity in identifying solutions.
BA 0507 Microsoft Excel for Business I
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 2 hours lecture weekly, 12 contact hours total
A comprehensive introduction to using spreadsheet software to solve business problems. Students learn enhanced worksheet design for business applications to greater enhance their workplace skills. Students learn to set up, format, save and print spreadsheets. Additional topics include logical and mathematical functions and creating graphs from spreadsheet data. This course is a component of the noncredit Occupation, Vocational and CTE certification programs.
BA 0508 Word Processing (Multi Level)
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
This course is a beginning Microsoft Word course focusing on the essential word processing skills required for those entering the workforce and in a business office. Students learn to prepare, format, maintain documents, create tables, merge documents, and create business letters. This course is a requirement for some Vocational and/or CTE certificae programs, and serves as a foundation for further study of word processing.
BA 0509 Intro to Windows for MS Office Applications
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.67 hours lecture weekly, 12 contact hours total
An introduction to computer concepts and techniques for beginning computer students. Students will learn to use the Windows operating system to organize and manage data, resources and the Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. A unit on the Internet and Email is included.
BA 0510 Quickbooks: Level 1
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 0.67 hours lecture weekly, 12.06 contact hours total
This course was created for anyone who wants to learn QuickBooks. QuickBooks can be used for almost all financial business processes, your own finances, small business, or in the workplace.
BA 0920 Practical Accounting
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 1 hours lab weekly, 72 contact hours total
Provides an introduction to accounting, suitable for students interested in pursuing additional business and accounting courses as well as for students interested in establishing a practical understanding of accounting. BA 0920 includes the application of the double-entry system in the preparation and use of journals, ledgers, worksheets and financial statements. Banking and payroll issues are also explored.
BA 0985 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 2 hours lecture weekly, 36 contact hours total
This course will introduce participants to entrepreneurship and its role in the market economy. Topics include: What is an Entrepreneur, Preparing for Business, Opportunity Recognition and Market Analysis, Marketing Plan and Sales, Analyzing Finances, Starting Your Business, Managing Your Business, and Growing Your Business.
BA 1001 Financial Accounting
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 1 hours lab weekly, 90 contact hours total
- Advisory
- BA 0920 (Practical Accounting)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ACCT 110
Financial Accounting is the study of accounting as an information system, examining why it is important and how it is used by investors, creditors, and others to make decisions. This course covers the accounting information system, including recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, the application of generally accepted accounting principles, financial statements, and statement analysis. It includes issues related to asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense recognition, cash flow, internal controls, and ethics. C-ID ACCT 110.
BA 1004 Business Communication
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- ENGL 1001 (College Composition) This course is designed to teach the reading, writing, and research skills necessary to succeed in any subsequent college course. Students will critically read and write in a variety of rhetorical situations and contexts and incorporate college-level research. Minimum 6,000 words formal writing. (AA, CSU, UC)
- Transfers to
- CSU
- C-ID
- BUS 115
This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. C-ID BUS 115
BA 1006 Introduction to Business
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- ENGL 1001 (College Composition)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- BUS 110
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. Demonstrates 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 and securities market; and therefore affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. C-ID BUS 110.
BA 1011 Social Media Marketing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Explore strategies, tools, and trends in social media marketing to build brand awareness and effectively engage audiences.<br />
BA 1014 Principles of Business Management
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course is an introduction to business management principles and practices. It covers the application of the four functions of management, i.e. planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, in the effective achievement of organizational objectives. Organizational structures and management theories and processes will be explored.
BA 1015 Human Relations
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
A study of the organizational and human aspects of business with emphasis on awareness of the interpersonal relationships that exist within the business structure.
BA 1016 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- ENGL 1001 (College Composition) Without Content Review
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course will introduce participants to entrepreneurship and its role in the market economy. Students will define entrepreneurship and assess the mindset and characteristics of entrepreneurs, recognize business opportunities and pitch a concept from idea to creation; conduct market analysis and review the steps to develop a business plan; and identify resources for starting, growing and financing a small business.
BA 1018 Legal Environment of Business
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- ENGL 1001 (College Composition)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- BUS 120
Fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions. Introduction to the law as an instrument of social and political control in society. Topics include 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.
BA 1024 Beginning Spreadsheets
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Provides an introduction to electronic spreadsheets through extensive hands-on use of Microsoft Office Excel. Emphasis is placed on the design, construction and effective usage of electronic spreadsheets as well as using mathematical formulas & functions, charts, tables, graphs, formatting features, workbook management, and financial functions. Students cannot receive credit for both CSCI 1024 and BA 1024 as they are equivalent.
BA 1025 Beginning Word Processing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course is designed to introduce students to the basics of the latest word processing software for the application of projects in an office setting. Topics include: Formatting and customizing characters and paragraphs, inserting objects, maintaining documents, and creating tables and SmartArt.
BA 1034 Personal Finance
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Students learn how to effectively manage finances throughout their life cycle by understanding how knowledge and application of finances impacts practical decisions made in daily life, and the social, psychological, and physiological contexts in which those decisions are made. This course does not fulfill a math based requirement.
BA 1501 Managerial Accounting
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 1 hours lab weekly, 90 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- BA 1001 (Financial Accounting) with a grade of C or better
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ACCT 120
The study of how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations and controlling. It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure and cost-volume-profit analysis. It includes issues related to cost systems, cost control, profit planning, and performance analysis in manufacturing and service environments. C-ID ACCT 120.
BA 1524 Intermediate Spreadsheets
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours lecture weekly, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- BA 1024 (Beginning Spreadsheets)
- Transfers to
- CSU
Using Microsoft Excel, this course provides the student with the intermediate spreadsheet skills needed to create scientific, statistical, trigonometry, financial, logical, text functions, and formulas along with instruction on linking worksheets, pivot tables, using data analysis, sharing workbooks, and creating macros. Students cannot receive credit for both BA 1524 and CSCI 1524 as they are equivalent courses.
BA 2929 Special Studies
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 6 hours lab weekly, 108 contact hours total
- Advisory
- BA 1006 (Introduction to Business)
- Transfers to
- CSU
This independent study course provides an opportunity for students to do guided reading and learning about selected topics in business and to produce a final project.
BA 2949 Work Experience
- Units
- 0.5-8
- Hours
- 26.67 hours lab weekly, 480 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Occupational Work Experience is supervised employment extending classroom-based occupational learning at an on-the-job learning station relating to the student's educational or occupational goal. Students can earn a maximum of 16 semester units, .5-8 units/semester.