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      "markdown": "This certificate will provide students in the noncredit program with the background and training needed to help them become a successful small business owner. It is designed to help plan, implement, manage, and/or grow a small business. The courses will combine to provide foundational skills in marketing, accounting, and business planning. This program will be offered in both English and Spanish.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s):**\n\n1.  Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to create, manage, and market a small business."
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      "markdown": "BUS 1-Fundamentals of Business (3.0)\n\n3.0 Lecture. A survey in business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, the economic system, the legal environment, international and political issues, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and abroad. Demonstrate how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design, leadership, human resources management, organized labor practices; marketing; organized communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and securities markets; and therefore affect a business's ability to achieve its organizational goals. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. Previously listed as GBUS 1. (C-ID: BUS 110) (Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass) Effective: Fall 2023\n\nBUS 11-Statistics for Business and Economics (4.0)\n\n4.0 Lecture. The use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate decision-making. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-square and t-tests; statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of the statistical findings. Applications using data from disciplines including business, social science, psychology, life science, health science, and education. Additional and more extensive case studies from business and economics, emphasizing statistical results that provide guidance for business decisions or suggest solutions to contemporary business and economic problems; use of larger data sets analyzed with computer software programs. (C-ID: MATH 110) This course is also listed as ECON 11. PREREQUISITE: Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of intermediate algebra. (Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass) Effective: Summer 2025\n\nBUS 14-Personal Finance (3.0)\n\n3.0 Lecture. This course is designed to equip students with specific knowledge and skills enabling them to make sound financial decisions over the course of their life, in order to build and maintain wealth. Students will develop quantitative reasoning and critical analysis abilities, and will apply them to topics including: budgeting, time value of money calculations, financial planning, retirement planning, tax planning and related calculations, investing, credit and credit cards, insurance, and estate planning. Students will take a hands-on approach to learning by using mathematical reasoning and formulae to solve problems and complete projects. Instructors will provide student-centered activity-based instruction, which emphasizes the conceptual understanding and skills of mathematics and quantitative reasoning to develop competence and confidence in problem solving abilities. This course is also listed as ECON 14. Prerequisite: Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of intermediate algebra. (Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass) Effective: Summer 2025\n\nBUS 80-Business Law (3.0)\n\n3.0 Lecture. Introduction to the law applicable to business institutions and their operations; social forces and their effect upon the development of law; sources of law, agencies for enforcement, and court procedure and administration agencies. Substantive law, that law which includes rights and duties, will include contracts, agency employment relationships, torts and crimes. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. Previously listed as GBUS 80. (C-ID: BUS 125). (Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass) Effective: Summer 2025\n\nBUS 100-Effective Written and Oral Business Communication (3.0)\n\n3.0 Lecture. This course teaches the principles of effective communication as it is applied to the creation of business letters, memos, emails, resumes, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. Students will plan, organize, compose, and revise a variety of business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation graphics software to create and deliver professional level oral reports for a variety of business situations. Also listed as BUS 100. (C-ID BUS 115.) PREREQUISITE: ENGL 1A. (Standard Letter Grade) Effective: Fall 2020\n\nBUS 210-Project Management (3.0)\n\n3.0 Lecture. This course will provide students with the project management tools and methods needed to initiate, manage and complete projects. Microsoft Project software will be used. ADVISORY: Knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel or equivalent. (Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass) Effective: Spring 2020\n\nBUS 700-Entrepreneurship (0.0)\n\n0.9 Lecture. This course is designed to help students examine their own entrepreneurial skills and gain new ones through introspection. With interactive activities students will learn how to generate, develop and evaluate their own business ideas. In this course students will also be introduced to the concepts of innovative and social entrepreneurship. (Non Credit) Effective: Summer 2021\n\nBUS 701-Small Business Ownership (0.0)\n\n0.9 Lecture. This course will help students gain the skills and commitment necessary to successfully launch an entrepreneurial venture. Students will learn about effective business planning methods, start-up activities and costs, marketing strategies, and financing options. (Non Credit) Effective: Fall 2023"
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