Fast-Track Associate in Science in Business Administration (On-Campus)

On-Campus Curriculum

The curriculum for this Fast-Track Associate Degree in Business Administration is designed for students who want to complete their associate degree strictly on campus, in as little as 12 months.

Quarter 1

ENG 3006	College English Workshop	3 q.h.
ACC 2150	Financial Accounting Intensive (1&2)	6 q.h.
ITC 1235	Internet Essentials	3 q.h.

Quarter 2

LDR 1201	Establishing the Framework: What is Leadership?	3 q.h.
ACC 1403	Managerial Accounting	3 q.h.
MGT 1001	Dynamics of Business 1	3 q.h.
SOC 2440	Gender and Work Roles in Society	3 q.h.

Quarter 3

FIN 2801	Principles of Finance	3 q.h.
BLW 1001	Business Law	3 q.h.
CMN 1102	Interpersonal and Group Communication	3 q.h.
MGT 1002	Dynamics of Business 2	3 q.h.

Quarter 4

FIN 2802	Financial Management	3 q.h.
HRM 2101	Organizational Behavior	3 q.h.
OPM 1130	Basics of Supply Chain Management	3 q.h.
MKT1001	Principles of Marketing	3 q.h.

Total Quarter Hours: 48

 

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College English Workshop
Offers students an opportunity to continue to develop writing skills and learn the skills and techniques involved in designing and producing a finished documented paper of ten pages. Reviews the principles and methods of organized writing in preparation for the required competency examination administered at the end of the workshop.

Financial Accounting (Intensive)
Examines the development of financial statements, including the underlying concepts and measurement theories. Emphasizes the analysis and use of these statements to make decisions. The second half emphasizes issues in financial reporting, valuation, and income measurement. Topics include inventories, plant and equipment, bonds, present value, and stockholders’ equity.

Internet Essentials
Covers tools, techniques, and technologies used to connect to the Internet, communicate electronically, and do business online. Given today’s vast databases and the access capabilities afforded by the Internet, understanding how to filter content properly is crucial to avoiding information overload. Topics include authoring, distributing, and browsing technologies; TCP/IP; client-server structures; Web/HTTP/HTML; Internet privacy and security, cookies, and viruses; information retrieval, World Wide Web (WWW), and file transfer protocol (FTP); and Internet transactions such as online banking, buying, and selling. The course is taught in state-of-the-art lab facilities. Offers students an opportunity to learn basic HTML programming.

Assessing Your Leadership Capability
Focuses on enhancing students’ individual awareness, reflection, and effectiveness as leaders. Through a focus on self-assessment, offers students an opportunity to learn to appreciate the differences between themselves and others and deepen their understanding of what motivates people in the working environment. Organizations are only as effective as the individuals who work in them. In this program orientation, students are introduced to the methodologies and processes that are essential aspects of leadership: competency development and planning, action learning, and mentoring. In addition, students are assessed on their leadership capabilities and use these outcomes to determine their focus for development.

Managerial Accounting
Offers students an opportunity to learn how to perform a cost-benefit analysis, how to analyze cost-volume relationships, and how to apply ratio analysis to financial statements, such as the statement of cash flows.

Dynamics of Business 1
Offers students an opportunity to obtain a foundation for understanding how American business operates in a global marketplace. Business is viewed first by examining key external factors that influence its development: the economy, government, law, politics, and international business. Studies the internal organization of business, highlighting major issues associated with the key management functions such as marketing, finance, information systems, and operations. Emphasizes practical applications of business principles and current events.

Gender and Work Roles in Society
Considers the impact of the changing roles of men and women in a relational institutional context, including a combined focus on gender role performance in the workplace and traditional gender demands imposed by family structure. Examines how workplace organization contributes to social inequalities. Topics include women’s voice, the men’s movement, gender and historical analyses, education and professionalism, comparable worth, and leadership and management styles.

Principles of Finance
Introduces basic financial frameworks, concepts, principles, tools, and techniques. Topics include financial analysis, financial planning, working capital management, the time value of money, an introduction to domestic and international financial markets, and traditional sources of debt and equity financing. Uses spreadsheets and financial calculators.

Business Law 1
Introduces the legal system and the essential elements of contracts, including performance and remedies for breach. Other topics include sales laws as governed by the Uniform Commercial Code, including the law of warranty, business organizations, limited liability corporations, partnerships, and other commercially important business forms.

Interpersonal and Group Communication
This course focuses on the interpersonal and group communication contexts. It examines skills and strategies necessary for developing and maintaining effective personal and professional relationships. Topics include perception, self-concept, emotions, attitudes and values, nonverbal communication, language, and methods of conflict resolution in group interaction. 

Dynamics of Business 2
Focuses on the tools—particularly financial, marketing, and information systems—required to operate businesses in the twenty-first century. Covers consumer-oriented marketing, investment basics, the securities market, and e-business. Seeks to help students demystify the complexities of the business world.

Financial Management
Explores managerial finance from both domestic and international perspectives. Topics include valuation, capital budgeting, capital structure and financial leverage, long-term financing decisions, cost of capital, mergers and acquisitions, international finance, and risk management. Uses spreadsheets and financial calculators.

Organizational Behavior
Examines individual learning and motivation as well as interpersonal communication, conflict management, group roles and dynamics, and how to determine the levels of each factor. Relies heavily on techniques to analyze, apply knowledge, and develop personal insight and skills. Organizational behavior asks the question: What is needed to become an effective organization? Organization members and leaders seek the elusive goals of a highly motivated, innovative workforce, committed to ethical contribution to individuals and society.

Basics of Supply Chain Management
Explores the basic concepts of managing the flow of materials in a typical enterprise supply chain. Examines a complete overview of material flow, from internal and external suppliers, to and from the enterprise. Topics covered include basic elements of the supply chain, just-in-time (JIT), total quality management (TQM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), demand planning, and capacity management. Provides preparation for those who wish to take the APICS examination toward earning the CPIM certification. 

Principles of Marketing
Consists of lectures, readings, and small group discussions on the role of marketing in contemporary society, in the business enterprise, and in the nonprofit organization. Covers the planning, operations, and evaluation of marketing and promotional efforts necessary for the effective marketing of consumer and industrial products and services in both profit and nonprofit organizations.