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Course Descriptions

Course # Course Title Credits
BA 101 Intro To Business 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Emphasizes business organization, operation, and management. Assists students interested in business determine their major field of concentration.

BA 104 (P/T) Business Math 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Applies mathematical skills to solve business and consumer problems. Includes business applications such as computing finance charges, taxes, discounts, markups, inventory value, bond discount/premium, and present/future value analysis.Prerequisites: MATH 60.

BA 131 Intro To Business Computing 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Introduces computer concepts covering computer systems, software and hardware, networking, and databases. Students will complete assignments in Microsoft Office Professional computer applications, including Word, Excel, Access, Publisher and Powerpoint. Emphasizes basic understanding and competency in different applications and concepts.

BA 203 (P/T) International Business 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces business activities that cross national boundaries. Studies the concepts of international business: its theories and framework for analysis of international transactions.

BA 204 (P/T) Teamwork Dynamics 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Introduces the formation, development, and management of groups. Examines problems and characteristics common to group situations and generates strategies for improving group productivity.

BA 206 Principles Of Management 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

Introduces the principles of management, concentrating on organizational structures, planning principles, organizing, leading, controlling, and management techniques.

BA 211 Principles Of Financial Accounting 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Introduces financial accounting concepts and reporting of financial information in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Emphasizes external financial reporting for business enterprises and the use of financial statement information for economic decision making. Introduces computerized accounting concepts.

BA 213 Principle Of Managerial Accounting 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Introduces managerial accounting, including methods of cost systems and appropriate use of information obtained for improved management decision-making. Conducts analysis of cost behavior, cost/volume/profit relationships, budgeting, evaluating performance, and capital investment decision. Continues computerized accounting concepts.Prerequisites: BA 211

BA 214 Business Communication 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Winter, Spring

Applies written communication skills to writing and analyzing business letters, memos, emails, and short reports. Incorporates correct format, grammar, and punctuation.Prerequisites: WR 121

BA 215 (P/T) Cost Accounting 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Focuses on the role of the cost accountant in providing accounting information to managers as an aid in economic decision making. Emphasizes the development and application of cost systems as they apply to cost inputs (materials, labor, overhead), and job order versus process costing. Examines actual versus standard cost accounting, direct costing versus full absorption costing, and budgeting.

BA 218 Personal Finance 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring

Explores the role of the individual consumer in our economy, problems of financing family and individual needs, including budgeting, banking relationships, borrowing, insurance, risk management, real estate, investing, portfolio management, retirement and personal taxes. Basic financial measurement and calculations will be introduced. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

BA 223 Principles Of Marketing 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter

Surveys activities by which a firm seeks to anticipate customer needs by directing a flow of need-satisfying goods and services from producer to consumer. Includes market research, buying behavior, product planning, physical distribution, retailing, wholesaling, promotion, and pricing policy.

BA 226 Business Law I 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

Introduces business law, emphasizing contract law. Discusses history of legal development, crimes, torts, and courts systems.

BA 227 Business Law II 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Winter, Spring

Continues study of business law, emphasizing sales law, commercial paper, bailments, and agency agreements.Prerequisites: BA 226, or instructor approval.

BA 239 Principles Of Advertising 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Examines in detail the purpose, preparation, placement, and analysis of various types of advertisements within each of the media. Analyzes and compares the relative merits of the media on local and national advertising.

BA 243 (P/T) Consumer Behavior 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces the dynamic interaction of affect and cognition, behavior, and the environment by which people conduct the exchange aspects of their lives.

BA 249 Retail Management 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Presents the principles of retail strategy and structures, emphasizing trading area analysis, consumer behavior, store location, and pricing in retailing.

BA 250 Small Business Management 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter, Spring

Presents the fundamentals of owning and managing a small business, including organizational, financial, marketing, and management concepts. Studies the dominant impact of small business. Some sections may have a no-cost text book option.Prerequisites: BA 211, BA 206, and BA 223.

BA 255 Personnel Supervision 3.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces the supervisor's special place in management and the essential skills that all managers have in common. Focuses on the unique problems of being a supervisor in any kind of organization, and closely examines the special skills, responsibilities, roles and attributes required of supervisors.

BA 280 Business Mgt Coop Work Exp 1.00 Credit

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Designed to give students an opportunity to acquire actual work experience in their chosen field. An on-site supervisor will supervise and evaluate the work experience student. Instructor approval of work setting and placement is required. For each credit earned, the student will need to document 36 hours at the work site. Some sections may have a no-cost text book option.