Business Administration – Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management – Associate in Science Degree, Certificate of Achievement

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0506.40

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management program is designed to cultivate the innovative, entrepreneurial skills necessary for today’s fast-paced, continuously changing business environment. Students will learn how to think and act flexibly, creatively, and critically. This program provides students of any discipline with the tools and skills required to organize and plan their own business or to innovate within an organization.

A Certificate of Achievement is awarded upon completion of all required courses with a grade of C or better.

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Program Outcomes

  • Design and develop a strategic business and marketing plan that can be used to prepare a new business launch, to achieve entry into new markets, or to change and grow an existing business.
  • Evaluate how business concepts such as brand building, financial management, business law, resource allocations, and change and uncertainty for competitive advantage affect the growth of a small business.
  • Apply quantitative reasoning to common business problems, including markup, markdown, simple and compound interest, payroll, and discounts.
  • Apply the business skills of planning, managing, financing, and marketing to create a new venture or help lead an existing business to think with a higher degree of innovation.
  • Analyze self-motivation, roles, creative abilities, and communication skills in the context of the entrepreneurial mindset.

Requirements for the Certificate of Achievement

Required Core
ACCT 010BOOKKEEPING - ACCOUNTING4
BIT 025SURVEY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS3
BUS 002PERSONAL FINANCE3
BUS 009INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS3
BUS 012ABUSINESS LAW3
BUS 116ENTREPRENEURSHIP3
Total Units19

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General Education Requirements for the Associate in Science Degree

  • General Information
  • PCC Local Gen Ed
  • Students who have previously been awarded a bachelor‛s degree or higher from a U.S. institutionally accredited institution shall be deemed to have fulfilled the general education and elective course requirements for the Associate in Science degree.
  • Cal-GETC
  • Students with rights to the former general education patterns can complete IGETC or CSU GE in lieu of Cal-GETC. Students should consult with an Academic Counselor to determine which general education pattern to complete and may refer to an appropriate archived College Catalog or www.assist.org for more information.