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  "college": "san-diego-mesa-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Business",
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  "name": "Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship",
  "award": "Associate of Science Degree",
  "department": "business",
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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nThe Associate of Science Degree in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship will assist students in meeting their goals for business education, business start-up and growth. The Associate Degree prepares students for business ownership, including planning, launching, and managing a business. Students develop a broad foundation of principles, while focusing on key industries in which they may operate. Curriculum exposes students to operations, management, finance, marketing, and other skills necessary for sustained success. Entrepreneurship is, by definition, an interdisciplinary practice, and this program is designed to provide students with essential skills that will help them succeed as business owners in their field of choice.\n\n**Award Note:**\nThe Associate Degree requires a minimum of 60 degree applicable semester units.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Develop an understanding of business and the business environment, locally and globally, with an awareness of markets, finance and feasibility.\n2.  Analyze business problems, including uses of technology, issues of sustainability, and ethics, while comparing costs and benefits.\n3.  Communicate effectively in business with text and images utilizing traditional, digital, and developing media.\n4.  Network with peers and mentors on campus and in local businesses."
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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          "code": "BUSE 100",
          "title": "Introduction to Business",
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 119",
          "title": "Business Communications",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MARK 100",
          "title": "Principles of Marketing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 155",
          "title": "Small Business Management",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 150",
          "title": "Human Relations in Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 140",
          "title": "Business Law and the Legal Environment",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 129",
          "title": "Introduction to Entrepreneurship",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT 116A",
          "title": "Financial Accounting",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT 116B",
          "title": "Managerial Accounting",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CISC 181",
          "title": "Principles of Information Systems",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ECON C2002",
          "title": "Principles of Macroeconomics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ECON C2001",
          "title": "Principles of Microeconomics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 115",
          "title": "Statistics for Business",
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          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MATH 121",
          "title": "Basic Techniques of Applied Calculus I",
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