General Business, Certificate of Achievement
Banner Code: 3_CN_GNBUS
Control Number: 23044
Financial Aid Eligible
The General Business certificate is designed to help students explore an educational path in business for ultimate employment at a small, medium, or large firm. Graduates will be conversant in business terminology, business functions, communication, planning, organizing, and decision-making. Coursework exposes students to the fields of marketing, human resource management, operations and manufacturing, accounting, and finance. Students may select specific elective courses to meet their professional or personal business education goals. The courses in the program allow for further career and industry research.
Program Level Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Effectively communicate solutions to business problems using appropriate business terms and strategies.
- Develop and exhibit high standards of professional practice, demonstrating awareness of ethical and social responsibilities in today’s multicultural, team-oriented, rapidly-changing global environment.
Certificate of Achievement
Certificate programs are designed to prepare individuals to enter a particular field of employment or to provide in-service training to those already employed. Certificates of Achievements are majors that include 16 units or more and will be posted on the transcript. They may be used as elective units towards the A.A. or A.S. Degree.
- Student must be in attendance at the time requirements are completed.
- Students must also earn a minimum of 12 units of coursework at Coastline, excluding experiential credit.
- A student with prior experience may be excused from certain certificate courses.
- 50 percent of the certificate program’s units must be completed at Coastline no matter how the total number of units required for the certificate can be met.
Course | Title | Units |
---|---|---|
Required Core | ||
Complete the following: | ||
BUS C100 | Introduction to Business | 3 |
BUS C110 | Business Law/Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
BUS C150 | Introduction to Marketing | 3 |
MS C100 | Principles of Management | 3 |
or MGMT C100 | Principles of Management | |
Program Electives | ||
Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
Introduction to Accounting | ||
ACCT for Non-Financial Managers, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners | ||
Introduction to Project Management | ||
Personal Finance | ||
Introduction to International Business | ||
Introduction to Entrepreneurship | ||
Introduction to Information Systems | ||
Information Systems, Programming, and Database Management | ||
Human Relations in Business | ||
or MGMT C115 | Human Relations in Business | |
Human Resource Management | ||
or MGMT C111 | Human Resource Management | |
Logic and Critical Thinking | ||
Ethics | ||
Total Units | 18 |