# Business Education (BUS) courses

Palomar College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 30 courses

Source: https://palomar.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/32573/33385/32603

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

### BUS 80 — Medical Terminology and Anatomy

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4.00 hours lecture
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Basic medical terms with emphasis on word analysis and construction. Overview of anatomy and the pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical terms related to the body as a whole and the integumentary, digestive, urinary, musculoskeletal, and male reproductive systems.

### BUS 82 — Medical Insurance Billing and Coding

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Advisory:** BUS 80
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Provides entry level skills in medical insurance, billing, diagnostic and medical procedural coding with CPT and ICD-10-CM guidelines. Includes compiling and abstracting information from the medical record utilizing computer coding techniques and promoting accurate reimbursement of medical claims. Prepares and utilizes health care claim forms.

### BUS 84 — Healthcare Writing Techniques

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 2.00 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** BUS 80
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Application of writing skills to common writing situations found in various medical settings following HIPAA rules and standards. Includes the writing of medical letters, memos, and emails; medical records including charting and documenting; a variety of medical reports; meeting minutes; research and manuscripts.

### BUS 86 — Electronic Health Record Applications

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 2.00 hours lecture
- **Advisory:** BUS 80
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Application of technology in the health care industry. Includes overview of EHR software; privacy, confidentiality, and security of the EHR; transitioning from paper charts to the EHR; administrative use of the EHR; using the EHR for reimbursement; the EHR role in health promotion and patient education; and, the personal health record and patient advocacy.

### BUS 88 — Medical Office Administration

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Advisory:** BUS 80
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Designed to prepare students for employment as a medical administrative assistant. Topics include the career of a medical administrative assistant; the health care team; medical law and ethics; patient diversity, communications, appointment scheduling, and reception/registration; patient services of HIM, HIPAA, medical billing, health insurance and benefits (CMS-1500, Tricare, CHAMPVA, COBRA); directing the activities of the medical office (business operations, financial management, and human resource management); and, job search essentials.

### BUS 100 — Introduction to Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** BUS 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 10 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Preparation for survival within the global economy. Topics such as small business management, managerial theory, international business, and marketing represent several important class components. Includes strong career guidance component.

### BUS 110 — Business Mathematics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Theory and practical application to business situations of computing trade and cash discounts, commissions, payrolls, property taxes, interest, bank discount, compound interest, present value, annuities, sinking funds, insurance, consumer credit, and depreciation.

### BUS 117 — Legal Environment of Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** BUS 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 9 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 10 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Business legal systems, sources of law, social and ethical influences, judicial and administrative systems, contracts, torts, bankruptcy, agency, business organizations, securities regulation, regulation of property, and protection of intellectual property interests.

### BUS 125 — Business English

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Practical approaches to solving the commonly made errors in English language usage, as specifically applied to business-oriented material. Coverage includes vocabulary, spelling, grammar, idioms, sentence structure, and punctuation.

### BUS 129 — Principles of Logistics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Graded Only

Explore how supply chain management impacts all of the areas and processes of the firm and its supply chain trading partners. Focus on how managers can improve their firm's competitive position by employing the practice in the various areas of supply chain and to satisfy its customers.

### BUS 130 — Principles of Supply Chain Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Basic principles in purchasing and supply chain management, relationship management, application of processes, inventory management, source selection, obtaining and evaluating offers, buying techniques, contract writing and legal aspects.

### BUS 136 — Money Management and Planning for the Future

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 5 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

An integrated approach to personal finance that focuses on practical financial decision-making, as well as the physiological, psychological and sociological contexts in which those decisions are made. Topics include money management, taxes, financial services, consumer credit, consumer purchasing strategies, housing, property and automobile insurance, health and disability insurance, life insurance, investment analysis and retirement and estate planning.

### BUS 138 — Business Ethics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

This course explores ethical decision-making in business with emphasis on corporate governance, social responsibility, workplace conduct, and global issues. Students apply ethical frameworks and evaluate company practices through case studies to develop skills for responsible, integrity-based business decisions.

### BUS 145 — Retailing/Promotion

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass
- Cross listed as: FASH 125

Principles and techniques of retailing, promotion, and advertising pertinent to retail policies and procedures. Includes psychological aspect of retailing. Working foundation for those looking forward to employment in this area.

### BUS 150 — Advertising

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

A study of advertising media and methods as sales promotional tools in marketing activities including, but not limited to, such areas as the production and evaluation of advertisements and advertising media.

### BUS 152 — Social Media for Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Explores social media use from a business perspective. Students learn how to develop a social media strategy to promote business, build strong customer relationships, and coordinate a common message across multiple channels. Strategic and tactical review of the major social networking platforms will be reviewed in order to drive business goals and create a personal brand online.

### BUS 155 — Marketing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

A study of the role and functions of marketing in the wholesale and retail distribution of industrial and consumer goods and services, to familiarize students with marketing policies and practices, integration of marketing activities, and pertinent government regulations.

### BUS 157 — E-Commerce

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Addresses the methods by which a business can harness the powers of the Web to sell its product. Examines planning an e-business, web site creation and hosting, e-commerce stores, electronic payment issues and security, marketing an e-business, copyright, and privacy policy issues.

### BUS 165 — Beginning Keyboarding

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 1.00 hours lecture, 3.00 hours lab
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Introduction to basic business document formatting. Touch-typing of alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys on a computer keyboard. Includes development of speed and accuracy on straight copy.

### BUS 166 — Intermediate Keyboarding

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 1.00 hours lecture, 3.00 hours lab
- **Advisory:** BUS 165 or a keyboarding speed of 30 net words per minute
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Continued development of higher speed and accuracy timed writing goals from BUS 165. Emphasis is placed on production of a variety of more complicated multipage business documents and forms.

### BUS 170 — Word for Business - Basic

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Advisory:** A keyboarding speed of 20 net words a minute
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Hands on application with Microsoft Word. Students will create, save, close, open, edit, and print a variety of business documents utilizing the following software features: finding and replacing text, moving and copying text; spell, thesaurus, grammar, and auto text; character, paragraph, page, and document formatting; envelopes; tables; columns; borders and special characters; footnotes and endnotes; draw objects and graphics; hyperlinks; styles and templates; outlines; smart tags; and, headers/footers. Class Schedule will designate software package covered.

### BUS 171 — Word for Business - Advanced

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Advisory:** BUS 170
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Refinement of basic word processing skills and practice of the more sophisticated software features of merge; labels; fields; index and table of contents; macros; master and subdocuments; customizing Word; on-screen forms; charts; bookmarks and cross-referencing; creating and editing Word web pages; comparing and merging documents; linking and embedding objects; and tracking changes. In addition, more advanced printing, file management, and integration of related software will be covered. The Class Schedule will designate software version covered.

### BUS 173 — Contemporary Job Search Techniques

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Use the Internet, current software, and research tools to organize and implement a job search. Includes on-line resources; preparation and posting of application materials, including digital resume and digital cover letters; interview strategies and mock interviews; industry speakers, and hard copy and online portfolios.

### BUS 175 — Excel Basic

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Advisory:** BUS 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 4 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Introduction to a currently used computer spreadsheet application program. Concepts include defining, designing, and navigating spreadsheets; creating, editing, formatting, and printing spreadsheets; working with formulas and functions; and working with charts and graphics. A variety of spreadsheets will be created and edited within practical applications designed for the business environment. Class Schedule will designate software package covered.

### BUS 176 — Excel Intermediate

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Advisory:** BUS 175 or Equivalent
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Development of intermediate spreadsheet skills to manipulate worksheet content using a current computer spreadsheet application program. Intermediate concepts include working with lists, filtering, conditional formatting, pivot tables/charts, worksheet groups, workbook templates, lookup functions, auditing tools, document sharing features, macro basics, and publishing to a web page. Concepts are introduced using practical applications designed for the business environment. Class schedule will designate software package covered.

### BUS 177 — Excel Advanced

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 0.50 hours lecture, 1.50 hours lab
- **Advisory:** BUS 176 with a minimum grade of C or Equivalent
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Development of advanced skills using a current computer spreadsheet application program. Advanced concepts and skills include performing complex analyses using data tables, arrays, scenarios, goal seek and problem-solving tools, and application add-ins; importing data from external sources including text, database, schema, XML, and web files and real-time sources; defining queries; and, writing and executing macros and sub-routines. Concepts and software features are introduced applying practical applications designed for the business environment. Class schedule will designate software package covered.

### BUS 183 — Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) for Business

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

This course provides students with a comprehensive, non-technical overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and its growing impact on the business world. Students will explore how AI is transforming industries, driving innovation, and reshaping business strategies. Key topics include AI fundamentals, business applications of AI, ethical considerations, and the future of AI in areas such as administration, marketing, operations, customer service, and decision-making. By the end of the course, students will understand how AI can be leveraged to enhance business efficiency, improve customer experiences, and create competitive advantages. This course is ideal for business administration students seeking to gain insights into AI's role in today's business landscape.

### BUS 197 — Business Topics

- **Units:** 0.5-4
- **Hours:** 0.50-4.00 hours lecture, 1.50-12.00 hours lab
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

Topics in Business. See Class Schedule for specific topic offered. Course title will designate subject covered.

### BUS 204 — Quantitative Business Analysis

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4.00 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** Completion of intermediate algebra or the equivalent, or eligibility or completion of PSYC/SOC 205, BUS 204, or any course between MATH 100 and 245 (excluding MATH 197) based on multiple measures. Recommended Preparation: BUS 175
- **C-ID:** MATH 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 4 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Grade/Pass/No Pass

The applied science of basing business decisions on numerical data that can be used to reduce risk in customer, product, investment, and other significant operational and strategic business decisions. Descriptive statistics (tabular, numerical, and graphical) and inferential statistics (random sampling, sampling distributions, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, linear regression, t-tests) are used within the context of business decisions. Makes extensive use of technology, including spreadsheets and other software tools, for analyzing data. Designed for students majoring in business or economics.

### BUS 205 — Business Communication

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3.00 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** BUS 115
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/fall-2026/bus.md); Spring 2027, 9 sections (/c/palomar-college/schedule/spring-2027/bus.md)
- Grading: Graded Only

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. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.