Business

Course Code: 0401A

Credits: 0.5

Course Description:

Students will study various areas of personal finance, including the stock market, banking, insurance, personal planning/budgeting, income tax preparation, and debt management.  

Course Code: 0441A/B

Credits: 1.0

Course Description:

This course is an introduction to the financial language of business for sole proprietorships.  This course is recommended for students who plan to study any aspect of business at the college level, for students pursuing a business career, or for those seeking a practical business and/or personal background.  Math credit toward graduation requirements will be awarded for this course.

Course Code: 0409A

Credits: 0.5

Course Description:

This course emphasizes business law as it affects young adults.  Business Law will provide students with knowledge in consumer law, employer-employee relations, and buyer-seller relations.  An understanding of how the law governs businesses and its operations will be developed as well as knowledge in contract law and contractual agreements for business and personal use.  In addition, law in today’s society will be covered as it pertains to business and personal business issues, such as cyber law, ecommerce, divorce, etc.

Course Code: 0450A

Credits: 0.5

Course Description:

This course will provide hands-on experience at owning, operating, and promoting a business.  Students will use a wide range of creative thinking activities and will be provided with hands-on experience with a variety of problem-solving activities.  

Course Code: MEBA230

Cost for student: $125

Credits: 0.5

Course Description (Dual Enrollment Cost):

Marketing is defined as the process of getting the right products to the right people, at the right place, time, and price by using the most effective promotional course of action. Marketing is also defined as providing goods and services that meet or exceed expectations of potential consumers’ needs and wants. The student is shown what makes a company embrace ethics in professional decision making; what encourages corporations to become socially responsible; what the processes are for product concepts, product development, and types of consumer products and services; how companies research the market, configure market segmentation, and target their market; and how companies develop online marketing strategies in order to target consumers and businesses.

Course Code: 0463

Credits: 0.5

Course Description (Dual Enrollment Cost):

Students will experience authentic simulations to see what it would be like to start, manage, and build a company from scratch. Students will work together to tackle the challenges of a start-up – generating ideas, altering and improving ideas to find out what it is like to finance and run a business. Students will work to display a grand opening event and actually feel what it is like to launch a business. By the end of the course, the students will have documented how to make a business plan, perfect an elevator pitch, add investors, and evaluate their success and learning experiences.

Recommend Prerequisite – Personal Finance, Marketing and Business Law