BUS 109(3-0-3)
e-Commerce
Students are introduced to the most popular e-Commerce business models and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. This course is designed to teach students how to create a business plan and form into work teams to operate an Internet-based news company providing information about various academic units such as sports, music, drama, and culinary arts. Students will be required to research, collect, prepare, and enter data into their sites. Students are taught the web's history, its impact on society, up-to-date techniques for creating revenue-generating web sites and then apply those techniques to their sites. Students are taught the importance of security, privacy, and social responsibility for successful e-Commerce. Students will be required to make use of computer facilities to complete assignments.
PR: CSS 123 and CSS 125
BUS 113(3-0-3)
Business Mathematics
This course is designed to teach students how to calculate and apply trade and cash discounts, percentages and markups, simple interest, discounting notes, payrolls, bank reconciliations, business and consumer loans, depreciation, and inventory evaluation methods.
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BUS 115(1-0-1)
Basic Keyboarding
The student will learn to key the alphabetic keys using the "touch method." The student will learn the reaches to the numeric and symbol keys as well as basic formatting, proofreading, and editing techniques. The student will develop keyboarding speed and accuracy. A minimum of 20 net wpm is required. This course is offered in a time period shorter than a full semester. Additional laboratory hours are required.
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BUS 118(3-0-3)
Keyboarding I
The student will learn to key the alphabetic and numeric keys using the "touch method," as well as formatting, proofreading, and editing techniques. The using Microsoft Word. student will develop keyboarding speed and accuracy and will format documents including letters, memoranda, reports, and tables. The student will learn to apply basic language arts skills in the production of documents.
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BUS 121(3-0-3)
Business Law I
This course focuses on the nature and sources of law pertaining to contracts, sales, secured transactions, bankruptcy and insurance.
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BUS 123(3-0-3)
Business Law II
This course continues the study of law begun in Business Law I, and covers the subjects of personal and real property, bailments, agency, employment, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, estates and trusts.
PR: BUS 121
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BUS 135(3-0-3)
Word Processing Fundamentals
The student will be introduced to the basic concepts and terminology of word processing using a word- processing software application program on a PC in a Windows environment. The student will learn the fundamentals of word processing, including creating, closing, exiting, formatting, saving, replacing, printing a document, merging, and basic text editing, and will apply these functions on a variety of application problems. The student will also be introduced to document assembly and MS-DOS. Additional laboratory hours are required.
PR: BUS 118 or BUS 115
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BUS 212(3-0-3)
Business Communications
This course teaches the principles of effective communication in business, both written and oral. It focuses attention on the communication process including effective listening, writing and speaking. Students analyze business letters, reports and memos for organization of ideas, conciseness and clarity. Students are required to write business letters and memos. Students are also required to write a business report and make an oral presentation. Writing resumes and employment letters is also covered in this course.
PR: ENG 123 (may be taken concurrently)
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BUS 223(3-0-3)
Business Statistics
This course provides the student with the knowledge to gather, process and present statistical data, construct frequency charts, compute measures of central tendency and standard and quartile deviations. This latter knowledge is then applied to solving business problems in sampling, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, and trend analysis.
PR: MAT 127
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