Frontline Supervision, Applied Business (AAS)

Program Overview

The Frontline Supervision program equips students with essential skills for entry-level management roles in various sectors. It focuses on effective communication, understanding supervisory responsibilities, human resource practices, and professional workplace conduct. Graduates develop the foundation to excel as staff members in business, government, or non-profit organizations.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This program prepares students to be effective, efficient, entry-level professionals. Students develop skills in supervision, the basics of human resources, and how to work with others in a business environment. The Frontline Supervision curriculum prepares the student to be an effective staff member in business, government or non-profit organizations. Students learn the importance of human behavior in organizations, how to supervise employees, and basic human resource practices.

Objectives:

• Develop skills necessary to communicate properly with subordinates, supervisors and peers using both verbal and non-verbal techniques (Communication Fluency).
• Discuss the supervisor's function, place in the management team and role in the business environment (Specialized Knowledge).
• Demonstrate appropriate business professional skills needed in the workplace (Personal and Social Responsibility).
• Identify and describe human resource management (Applied Learning).

Other:

• All CMU/WCCC associate graduates are expected to demonstrate proficiency in specialized knowledge/applied learning, quantitative fluency, communication fluency, critical thinking, personal and social responsibility, and information literacy.
• 62 semester hours total for the AAS in Applied Business, Frontline Supervision emphasis.
• Students must complete a minimum of 15 of the final 30 semester hours of credit at CMU/WCCC.
• A course may only be used to fulfill one requirement for each degree/certificate.
• No more than six semester hours of independent study courses can be used toward the degree.
• Non-traditional credit, such as advanced placement, credit by examination, credit for prior learning, cooperative education and internships, cannot exceed 20 semester credit hours for an AAS degree.
• Pre-collegiate courses (usually numbered below 100) cannot be used for graduation.
• Capstone exit assessment/projects (e.g., Major Field Achievement Test) requirements are identified under Program-Specific Degree Requirements.
• The Catalog Year determines which program sheet and degree requirements a student must fulfill in order to graduate.