Business
13 courses · Santiago Canyon College · 2025-2026 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026
BUS 090 Principles of Project Management
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Anti-Requisite: PBLC 080 (Principles of Project Management)
Utilizing project planning tools and techniques, learn how to define, plan, execute, and deliver projects of all types and sizes. Emphasizes practical application using case studies to organize, schedule, and manage projects effectively. Industry guest speakers included.
BUS 100 Fundamentals of Business
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
An introduction to the basic fundamentals of business. A survey of marketing management, production, accounting, finance, and economics and how they interrelate in the business environment.
BUS 103 Work Experience Education - Occupational
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 216 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This work experience course of supervised employment is designed to assist students to acquire desirable work habits, attitudes and skills in a field related to the students’ major so as to enable them to become productive employees. This course also provides students with career awareness for jobs. 54 work equals one unit of course credit. Units may be awarded in increments of 0.5. Student repetition is allowed per Title 5, Section 55253. Students may earn a maximum of 14 units of credit for work experience education. Field trips may be required.
BUS 105 Legal Environment of Business
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions. Introduction to the law as an instrument of social and political control in society. Topics include 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 120 Principles of Management
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Anti-Requisite: MGMT 120 (Principles of Management)
- Transfers to
- CSU
Principles, methods, and procedures essential to the successful management of human and financial resources. Planning, decision making, staffing, directing, motivating, leading, communicating, controlling, and the application of managerial skills.
BUS 121 Human Relations and Organizational Behavior
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Anti-Requisite: MGMT 121 (Human Relations and Organizational Behavior)
- Transfers to
- CSU
The role of the manager and management’s relationship to employees. Includes the application of motivational theories, communications, leadership, and organizational structure.
BUS 127 Introduction to E-Commerce
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Electronic commerce from a managerial perspective focusing on the retailing, business-to-business and service industries. Topics include: E-Commerce infrastructure, intranets and extranets, electronic payment systems, marketing research, advertising, E-Commerce strategies, and privacy issues.
BUS 130 Personal Finance
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course is an integrative approach to personal finance focusing on practical financial decision making as well as the social, psychological, and physiological contexts in which those decisions are made. Students will examine their relationships with money, set personal goals, and develop a plan to meet those goals. Topics include consumerism, debt, healthcare, investing, retirement, long-term care, disability, death, and taxes.
BUS 150 Introduction to Information Systems and Applications
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduction to computer concepts and management information systems. Application software used to solve business problems.
BUS 170 Principles of Small Business Management
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Practical business skills needed to start and operate a small business. Includes information on risk management, site location, legal aspects, financing, budgeting, merchandising, promotion, and management techniques.
BUS 171 Business Plan for Small Business
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Advisory
- BUS 170 (Principles of Small Business Management) Concurrent enrollment
- Transfers to
- CSU
Business planning for the opening or continued successful operation of a small business through the preparation of a written business plan.
BUS 175 Online Entrepreneurship
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This class is designed to help potential online entrepreneurs develop startup procedures, explore ideas and implement plans. Students will learn how to build and implement a business strategy for the Internet, including business specific considerations, online marketing and Ecommerce strategies.
BUS 222 Business Writing
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- ENGL 100 (Freshman Composition with Integrated Support) or ENGL C1000 (Academic Reading and Writing) or ENGL C1000H (Academic Reading and Writing - Honors)
- Transfers to
- CSU
Overview of oral and written communication skills used in business; emphasizes guidelines for improving writing and speaking skills, common solutions to common communication problems, ethical issues facing business communicators today, instructions on how to identify areas of legal vulnerability, and tested techniques for communicating successfully in today's high-tech, international business environment. Designed for students transferring to a university.