Associate in Science Degree or Certificate of Achievement in Small Business Operations  

Certificate of Achievement requires completion of the core courses plus a minimum of eleven units of electives plus college proficiencies.

Associate Degree requires completion of the core courses plus a minimum of eleven units of electives plus additional general education courses.

See the LMC catalog or a college counselor for more information.

Core courses (required for certificate or AS degree)

Core courses
(required for certificate or AS degree)

• BUS 10 Accounting: Applied Principles
  
  OR
• BUS 14 - Accounting: Financial Principles
• BUS 27 - Small Business Management
• BUS 35* - Using Microsoft Office
  
  OR
• COMSC 60* - Intro. To Microcomputers & Applications
• MANGT 75 A-C - Managing Human Resources
  
  Plus a Minimum of 11 units from the following:
• BUS 16 - Tax Accounting
• BUS 18* - MS Excel for Windows
• BUS 18A, B - MS Excel - Basics & Intermediate (each)
• BUS 20 - Introduction to Business
• BUS 25 - MS PowerPoint - The Basics
• BUS 26 - Retail Operations
• BUS 28 - Principles of Selling
• BUS 34 - Business Law
• BUS 35* - Using Microsoft Office
• BUS 58** - Business English
• BUS 59** - Business Communications
• BUS 68* - Intro. to Desktop Publishing on the PC
• BUS 91, 92, 93, 95 - Various One Day Business Seminars (each)
• BUS 900*** - Selected Topics in Business
• Art 13 - Graphic Design
• COMSC 30 - The Internet
• COMSC 31 - Internet - Web Site Development
• COMSC 60* - Introduction to Microcomputers
• JOURN 35LS - Mass Communication
• MANGT 50A-C - Introducing Supervision (each)
• MANGT 55A-C - Communicating with Confidence (each)
• MANGT 60A-C - Making Effective Decisions (each)
• MANGT 65A-C - Mastering Management's Essential Tools (each)
• MANGT 70A-E - Relating in Human Terms (each)
  
  *Also meets computer literacy competency requirement for Associate in Science Degree & Certificate of Achievement
  **Also meets reading/writing competency requirement for Certificate of Achievement
  ***BUS 900 courses do not necessarily transfer to four-year colleges and universities (please see a counselor regarding transfer information & degree applicability).