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  "college": "san-diego-miramar-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Business",
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  "name": "Business Management",
  "award": "Certificate of Achievement",
  "department": "business",
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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nBusiness managers plan, organize, direct, and oversee the activities needed to accomplish an organization’s mission. They ensure that vital resources - people, money, equipment, information, and work processes - are used effectively and efficiently. They work in organizations of all kinds, including for-profit business, nonprofits, and public institutions.\n\nThis program prepares students for entry-level positions in the field of business management or to complete a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related major at a four-year university.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Business Management Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Evaluate and analyze business-related data using various mathematical techniques.\n2.  Describe common business functions and practices.\n3.  Analyze and solve financial, economic, technological, or other problems in business organizations.\n4.  Utilize common business terminology.\n5.  Develop business-related written materials such as letters, memoranda, case studies, reports, or other documents."
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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          "text": "COURSES REQUIRED FOR THE MAJOR:",
          "units": "15-16"
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 100",
          "title": "Introduction to Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 119",
          "title": "Business Communications",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 150",
          "title": "Human Relations in Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 102",
          "title": "Introduction to Customer Service",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false,
          "connector": "or"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 201",
          "title": "Business Organization and Management",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 180",
          "title": "Microsoft Office",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 210",
          "title": "Computers in Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false,
          "connector": "or"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CISC 181",
          "title": "Principles of Information Systems",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false,
          "connector": "or"
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        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Complete at least six (6) units from the following business/business-related courses (not selected above):",
          "units": "6"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 102",
          "title": "Introduction to Customer Service",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 129",
          "title": "Introduction to Entrepreneurship",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 140",
          "title": "Business Law and the Legal Environment",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 150",
          "title": "Human Relations in Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 155",
          "title": "Small Business Management",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "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": "CBTE 210",
          "title": "Computers in Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CISC 181",
          "title": "Principles of Information Systems",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ECON C2001",
          "title": "Principles of Microeconomics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MARK 100",
          "title": "Principles of Marketing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PADM 200",
          "title": "Introduction to Public Administration",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Complete at least one of the following mathematics courses:",
          "units": "3"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 101",
          "title": "Business Mathematics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 115",
          "title": "Statistics for Business",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "STAT C1000",
          "title": "Introduction to Statistics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MATH 121",
          "title": "Basic Techniques of Applied Calculus I",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PSYC 258",
          "title": "Behavioral Science Statistics",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Complete at least three (3) units from the following occupational courses (not selected above):",
          "units": "3"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 120",
          "title": "Personal Financial Management",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUSE 270",
          "title": "Business Internship / Work Experience",
          "units": "1-4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT 102",
          "title": "Basic Accounting",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT 150",
          "title": "Computer Accounting Applications",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 120",
          "title": "Beginning Microsoft Word",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 122",
          "title": "Intermediate Microsoft Word",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 127",
          "title": "Beginning Microsoft PowerPoint",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 140",
          "title": "Beginning Microsoft Excel",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 143",
          "title": "Intermediate Microsoft Excel",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 152",
          "title": "Beginning Microsoft Access",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CBTE 180",
          "title": "Microsoft Office",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "LIBS 101",
          "title": "Information Literacy and Research Skills",
          "units": "1",
          "indent": false
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