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2024-2025 Catalog: September 2024 Edition
Emphasis in Business, AS
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The intent of this degree is to prepare students for careers in business or in specific disciplines within this broad designation. This degree emphasizes training that will enable students to lead, direct, plan, organize, and respond to a variety of challenges. It stresses problem-solving skills involved in making managerial, financial, and technical decisions based on available data, tools, and resources. Courses in the program study the elements of creative thinking and interpretation used in the process of transmitting information graphically. Students are acquainted with the concepts, theories, and terminology critical to their area of emphasis.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Describe the relationship between profit and risk and discuss how businesses and nonprofit organizations can raise the standard of living for all.
- Apply computing techniques to solve common business problems, to manipulate and interpret data, and to disseminate the data, methodology, analysis, and returns.
- Demonstrate the use of current technology resources to collect and analyze data and to access, evaluate, and present information in solving problems and making decisions.
- Explain why effective communication helps an organization gain a competitive advantage and describe the communication process.
- Recognize the socio-economic factors, consumer behaviors, and interpersonal relations as they integrate with business.
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Complete a minimum of 12 units, with at least one course taken from three different disciplines:
A maximum of one Cooperative Work Experience course, numbered 168, may be taken.
Computer Information Management:
Total Units Required: 18-21
To obtain the Associate in Science degree with an Emphasis in Business, students will have to:
- Complete
- The CSU General Education Certification pattern, a minimum of 39 units.
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- The IGETC Certification pattern, a minimum of 36 units.
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- The IVC Associate Degree General Education pattern, a minimum of 31 units.
- Complete a minimum of 18 units from the courses listed above, including a minimum of 12 units selected from at least three of the business science disciplines.
- Complete any elective, degree-applicable courses needed to bring the total number of units to 60.
- Maintain a 2.0 overall GPA and a grade of “A,” “B,” “C,” or “P” in all courses taken in the area of emphasis.
- Satisfy the residency and competency requirements as stated on Associate Degree Graduation Requirements .
Students are advised to consult with faculty in the fields of interest within the emphasis to identify career areas and to consult with a counselor to clarify graduation requirements and/or to determine specific transfer paths. The courses within each concentration described in the emphasis represent clusters of courses designed to prepare students for common traditional university major areas of study, for certificate programs, or for technical education certificates.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the AS degree with Emphasis in Business, students will be able to:
- Describe the relationship between profit and risk and discuss how businesses and nonprofit organizations can raise the standard of living for all.
- Discuss the importance of the global market and the roles of comparative advantage and absolute advantage in global trade.
- Explain why effective communication (i.e., the sharing of information) helps an organization gain a competitive advantage, and describe the communication process.
- Explain the role of operations management in achieving superior quality, efficiency, and responsiveness to customers.
- Demonstrate the use of current technology resources to collect and analyze data and to access, evaluate, and present information in solving problems and making decisions.
- Apply computing techniques to solve common business problems, to manipulate and interpret data, and to disseminate the data, methodology, analysis, and results.
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