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Small Business Entrepreneurship
(To keep up with industry needs and provide appropriate training, program requirements are reviewed every year. The requirements listed below are effective Summer Quarter 2007 through Spring 2009.)

Degree Options:  Certificate of Completion (CC) and Associate of Applied Science (AAS)

Prerequisites

Some or all of the following are required. See your faculty adviser for specific details.

...Basic keyboarding knowledge (recommended)

...Some classes have entry requirements not listed here.

Certificate
58 credits

Professional-Technical (PT)

BUSN 100 Survey of Business 
5
ACCTG 121 Practical Accounting I
5
BUSN 125 Exploring E-Commerce
5
BUSN 132 Advertising
5
  or
BUSN 175 Retailing  
BUSN 133 Basic Money Management
3
BUSN 134 Principles of Salesmanship
5
BUSN 135 Business Mathematics
5
BUSN 138 Principles of Marketing
5
BUSN 155  Entrepreneurship
5
BUSN 160 Human Labor Relations
5
BUSN 205 International Business
5

Related Instruction (RI)

SPCH 100  Basic Oral Communication
5
  or
WRIT 101 Principles of Writing

Optional Professional Technical (PT) Course

BUSN 188 Importing and Exporting
5

Associate of Applied Science
96 credits
All courses and requirements listed for certificate
58 credits

Professional-Technical (PT)

BUSN 110 Business, Government, and Society
5
BUSN 165 Managing Customer Service
5
BUSN 212 Business Ethics Seminar
3
BUSN 225 E-Commerce Management 
5
BUSN 250 Business Law
5
BUSN 270 Principles of Management and Supervision
5

Related Instruction (RI)

BUSN 216 Microcomputer/Applications
5
ECON 110 Essentials of Economics
5
  or
ECON 211 Principles of Microeconomics

Important Notes:

...This information does not substitute for meeting with a faculty adviser.

...Certificate and AAS programs emphasize preparation in specific job skills required for entry-level employment.

...Not all classes are offered every quarter or at night.

...Students attending only in the evening must remember it is likely to take longer than one year to complete certificate and more than two years to complete AAS program.

...This program offers flexible registration and open-entry enrollment.


Department Web Site and Contact Information
http://flightline.highline.edu/business