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Areas of Study Business

Management Certificate

The management certificate is designed to prepare students for career opportunities and upward mobility in the business sector.

Certificate | SC Program: CT.3352

Academic Plan

An academic plan shows all the courses you need to graduate and a suggested order in which you should take them. To make your personalized comprehensive education plan, please make an appointment with a counselor.

Choose your path

Map your education by viewing the program map for the degree or certificate you’re interested in earning below. Meet with a counselor to create your official comprehensive education plan.

A program map shows all the required and recommended courses you need to graduate and a suggested order in which you should take them. The suggested sequence of courses is based on enrollment and includes all major and general education courses required for the degree.

Fall Semester, First Year

18 Units Total
ACCT 101
M 3
Basic Accounting I
ACCT 101
Units 3
A beginning course based on the double-entry bookkeeping system with an emphasis on a procedural approach. Topics include: accrual, cash, and modified cash basis of accounting; the accounting cycle, transaction analysis (rules of debits and credits), journalizing, posting, worksheets, preparation of financial statements, adjusting, closing, and reversing entries; combination journal; petty cash; bank reconciliations; special journals, accounts receivable, accounts payable; and basic payroll procedures. The course culminates with the student keeping a set of books for a small service sole proprietorship for the last month of the fiscal year. This course is not transferable to a four-year college or university. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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BUAD 45
M 3
Human Relations on the Job
BUAD 45
Units 3
This is a course designed to give the student the opportunity to increase interpersonal skills. There is particular emphasis on communication, motivation, leadership, and group decision skills. Emphasis is placed on improved relationships among employees and between employees and employers. Topics include communication processes and styles, attitudes, values, motivation, leadership, valuing diversity, and reinforcement on the job. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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BUAD 66
M 3
Business Communications
BUAD 66
Units 3
Note: Student must submit all assignments in keyboarded (not handwritten) format. This course provides implementation of letter-writing principles and techniques through expository and argumentative writing. Additionally, the writing of employment portfolio, business letters and vocational survey (team project) is required. Application of electronic communication (Netiquette, E-mail format, Internet uses) will also be presented. This is a required course for many major and certificate programs and an alternate requirement or suggested elective in others. This class also satisfied the A.A. General Education Requirement for English. The equivalent of this course in content and objectives may also be offered on the Internet.
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BUAD 77
M 3
Principles of Marketing
BUAD 77
Units 3
This course is designed to help the student understand everyday marketing problems in organizations. Topics include changing role of marketing, the marketing mix, consumer behavior, sales, advertising, market research, middlemen, retailing, product development, and marketing plans. Additionally, the writing and presentation of a marketing plan is required. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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BUAD 41
M 3
Leadership and Supervision
BUAD 41
Units 3
This course focuses on the role of the first-line supervisor in the organization. There is particular emphasis on team building, coping with organizational change, leadership styles, motivating employees, and the supervisor's role in monitoring the primary management functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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BUAD 176
M 3
Retail Management
BUAD 176
Units 3
A course designed to develop student proficiency in the diverse aspects of retailing. The course includes specific areas of study, such as: store site location, store layout, product line selection, buying, pricing, selling, advertising, and financial management. This class is designed for those going into retail as well as those students planning to enter businesses that deal with retail merchants, i.e., wholesalers, advertising media, insurance agencies, accounting firms, and other service areas. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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18

Total Units

Please see a counselor to discuss options for meeting general education requirements for transfer to California State Universities (CSU) and/or University of California (UC) campuses, as well as any specific additional courses that may be required by your chosen institution of transfer.

*Alternative Courses: Please see a Shasta College counselor for alternative course options. You can also view the following to find other courses to meet degree/certificate requirements:

Need a print out? Feel free to download and/or print out a copy of the sample program map(s).

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