Program Overview

Business Administration Certificate Curriculum

The Business Administration Certificate program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of business principles and practices. The curriculum is structured to include both prerequisite and required courses, ensuring that students have a solid foundation in business administration.

Certificate Prerequisite Courses

The following courses are prerequisites for the Business Administration Certificate:

• ACCT 101: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• DS 110/MATH 110: Calculus with Business Applications
  • CLEP Exam may be taken to have DS 110/MATH 110 waived
• ECON 101: Introduction to Microeconomics
• ECON 102: Introduction to Macroeconomics
• ISYS 263: Introduction to Information Systems
  • Prerequisite: DS 212 or GE B4 Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
  • Any basic quantitative reasoning class (e.g., college algebra) can meet the GE B4 Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning requirement
  • CLEP Exam may be taken to have ISYS 263 waived

Required Courses

All Business Administration Certificate students are required to take and pass the following courses:

• ACCT 100: Introduction to Financial Accounting
• BUS 300GW: Business Communications for Professionals
• DS 212: Business Statistics
• DS 412: Operations Management
• FIN 350: Business Finance
• ISYS 363: Information Systems for Management
• MGMT 405: Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior
• MKTG 431: Principles of Marketing

Roadmap

The roadmap is a suggested plan of study, and students may need to adjust the actual sequence of courses based on course availability and prerequisites needed. The total certificate units required are 24, with 15 units of prerequisite courses.

• Total certificate units required: 24
• Prerequisite units: 15

The roadmap is as follows:

• Semester 1:
  • ACCT 100
  • BUS 300
  • DS 212
  • ISYS 363
  • Units: 12
• Semester 2:
  • DS 412
  • FIN 350
  • MGMT 405
  • MKTG 431
  • Units: 12
• Semester 3:
  • N/A

For students with no prerequisites, the total units to complete are 39, and the roadmap is as follows:

• Semester 1:
  • ACCT 100
  • DS 110 or MATH 110
  • ECON 101 or ECON 102
  • ISYS 263
  • Units: 12
• Semester 2:
  • ACCT 101
  • BUS 300
  • DS 212
  • ECON 101 or ECON 102
  • ISYS 363
  • Units: 15
• Semester 3:
  • DS 412
  • FIN 350
  • MGMT 405
  • MKTG 431
  • Units: 12

Preparation Courses

Global Business Communication Skills is a topic delivered as two CEU courses, designed to prepare students for a successful job or internship search and the professional skills needed to excel in this internship or job. These classes are not required for the certificate but are strongly encouraged enrichment options for students planning to apply for graduate school, Optional Practical Training (OPT), an internship, or a job.