# Business (BUS) courses

Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog · 7 courses

Source: https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/bus/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026.

### BUS 004 — Business Plan Development

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS
- Credit by Exam: Yes

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.

### BUS 006 — Introduction to Small Business Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 1
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS
- Credit by Exam: Yes

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.

### BUS 009 — Introduction to Entrepreneurship

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/bus.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 1
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS
- Credit by Exam: Yes

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.

### BUS 060 — Fundamentals of Business Statistics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 013 with C or better
- **C-ID:** MATH 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/bus.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: 2 District GE: 2
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course introduces statistics with an emphasis on business applications. Students will learn how to 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. This course requires the use of quantitative skills acquired in intermediate algebra and finite math.

### BUS 071 — Legal Environment of Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** BUS 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/bus.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

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.

### BUS 082 — Introduction to Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** BUS 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/bus.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 4 Write: 4 Math: 2
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

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.

### BUS 084 — Introduction to Marketing Principles

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS
- Credit by Exam: Yes

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.