Business Administration, Management - Major #2181

Certificate of Achievement Program Map
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The program map below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program. Individual circumstances might require some changes to this path. It is always recommended that you meet with your pathway counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.


A certificate of achievement in Business Administration is designed to provide a basic understanding of and proficiency in the important functional areas related to business management.


Upon completion of the program, students will:
  1. 1. Appropriately apply the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
  2. 2. Read and interpret basic financial statements.
  3. 3. Assist in the formulation and implementation of a corporate strategy.
  4. 4. Demonstrate proficiency in soft skills required for workplace success including teambuilding, conflict management, communication, and professional behavior.
  5. 5. Utilize basic workplace written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills required for the workplace, including the proper use of appropriate technologies, written reports, and formal presentations.
Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester

Term 1

12 units

Workplace Communication

3 units

BA 5
Workplace Communication

3 units
Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
This course provides instruction in professional workplace communication, including written, oral, and presentation fundamentals, with emphasis on organization, correctness, completeness, conciseness, and tone. (A, CSU)
Course Details:
      1. CSU Transfer
        or

        BT 5
        Workplace Communication

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
        This course provides instruction in professional workplace communication, including written, oral, and presentation fundamentals, with emphasis on organization, correctness, completeness, conciseness, and tone. (A, CSU)
        Course Details:
            1. CSU Transfer

              BA 10
              Introduction to Business

              3 units
              Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
              This course provides students a multidisciplinary survey of the U.S. business environment including the examination, analysis, reasoning, advocacy, and critique of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization’s success. Key areas of business are introduced, including economics, ethics, business law, forms of business ownership, organizational structure, communication, teams/leadership, human resource management, marketing, accounting, and finance. Students learn how these key topics influence an organization's policy, practices, and ability to achieve its goals. (A, CSU, UC)
              Course Details:
              1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                1. CSU Transfer

                  BA 33
                  Human Relations in the Workplace

                  3 units
                  Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                  This course provides students a multidisciplinary examination of how society, economics, and human behavior are inextricably interwoven into the American work environment. An emphasis on employee interaction with coworkers, clients, supervisors/managers, and their effect on the total organization. Emphasis on communication, societal and cultural differences, conflict resolution, ethics and politics, career selection and entry, inter-personal relations, motivation, leadership, attitude, and group dynamics. (A, CSU)
                  Course Details:
                  1. Advisory: BA 10
                  2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                    1. CSU Transfer

                      Supervision and Leadership or Principles of Management

                      3 units

                      BA 40
                      Supervision and Leadership

                      3 units
                      Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                      This course provides students first-level (operational) supervisory skills, with an emphasis on supervision-level planning, organizing, staffing, leading, controlling, communication, and legal considerations. (A, CSU)
                      Course Details:
                      1. Advisory: BA 10
                      2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                        1. CSU Transfer
                          or

                          BA 43
                          Principles of Management

                          3 units
                          Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                          In-depth study of the primary management functions including: strategic and tactical planning; decision-making; organizational design and systems; leadership, motivation and communication; and control systems. (A, CSU)

                          Term 2

                          8 units

                          Major Course

                          8 units

                          Select 8 units from the following: 

                          Accounting

                          3.5-4 units
                          ACCTG 4A
                          Financial Accounting
                          4 units
                          Effective Term: 2023 Fall Semester
                          This course explores what financial accounting is, why it is important, and how it is used by investors and creditors to make decisions. It covers the accounting information system and the recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, financial statements, and statement analysis. This course includes issues relating to asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense recognition, cash flows, internal controls, and ethics. (A, CSU, UC)
                          Course Details:
                          1. Advisory: CIT 12
                          2. Advisory: CIT 15
                            1. CSU Transfer
                              or
                              BT 131
                              Applied Accounting
                              3.5 units
                              Effective Term: 2024 Spring Semester
                              This course develops practical accounting skills for service and merchandising businesses involving classification of accounts, relationship of assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity; posting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial reports, the accounting cycle, and payroll. (A)
                              Course Details:

                                      BA 18
                                      Business and the Legal Environment

                                      4 units
                                      Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                      This is a law survey course with an emphasis on contract law. Other areas of law covered include civil procedure and ADR, constitutional law, administrative law, torts, criminal law and procedure, agency, labor and employment law, and international business law. A case study method is utilized along with a traditional lecture format. (A, CSU, UC)
                                      Course Details:
                                      1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                        1. CSU Transfer

                                          BA 20
                                          Law and the Legal System

                                          3 units
                                          Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                          This course covers what every person should know about law as a social process, as well as U.S. law and its legal institutions. It includes the historical origins of law and the role law plays in modern Western and non-Western societies. Other areas covered include institutional sources of law, legal reasoning, judicial decision-making and remedies, an overview of the civil and criminal litigation processes, administrative law and procedure, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, and ethics in the legal system. (A, CSU, UC)
                                          Course Details:
                                          1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                            1. CSU Transfer

                                              BA 28
                                              Privacy Law and Cybersecurity

                                              3 units
                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                              This course is intended to look at information security, privacy, ethics, and the laws as they pertain to future software engineers, IT Professionals, and upcoming business owners who will employ the internet and adaptive technologies sometime within their perspective occupations. Topics range from intellectual property, copyright and patents, contract law, consumer rights and protections, consumer financial information, federal and state laws, computer, and network security, to computer forensics and investigation. The Software Engineering Code of Ethics is also highlighted within this course. (A, CSU, UC)

                                              BA 30
                                              Personal Finance

                                              3 units
                                              Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                              This course examines personal financial management from an economic and behavioral perspective. Emphasis on the life-long impact financial decisions have on individuals, families and society. Topics include time value of money, opportunity cost and marginal analysis; tax strategies; financial planning strategies; financial monitoring and reporting; money & credit management; purchasing strategies and large asset acquisition; risk management through home, health, auto and disability insurance; saving and investing; and retirement and estate planning. (A, CSU, UC)
                                              Course Details:
                                              1. Advisory: BA 10
                                                1. CSU Transfer

                                                  BA 31
                                                  Human Resource Management

                                                  3 units
                                                  Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                  This course examines major functions of human resource management including planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, evaluation, compensation, labor relations and motivation. (A, CSU)
                                                  Course Details:
                                                  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                  2. Advisory: BA 10
                                                    1. CSU Transfer

                                                      BA 34
                                                      Fundamentals of Investing

                                                      3 units
                                                      Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                      In this course, students will study basic investment theory and practice including security valuation. This course includes strategies for investments in government securities, corporate bonds, stocks, mutual funds and basic derivatives. (A, CSU)
                                                      Course Details:
                                                      1. Advisory: BA 30
                                                        1. CSU Transfer

                                                          BA 35
                                                          Financial Management for Business

                                                          3 units
                                                          Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                          This course is designed to provide students an understanding of basic financial decision-making required for business owners, entrepreneurs and financial managers. The course focuses on financial statement analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, time value of money, sources of funding, and financial markets and institutions. (A, CSU)
                                                          Course Details:
                                                          1. Advisory: BA 10
                                                          2. Advisory: MATH 103
                                                            1. CSU Transfer

                                                              BA 38
                                                              Operation of the Small Business

                                                              3 units
                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                              A systematic approach to developing and managing a small business including the development of a formal, comprehensive business plan. Emphasis on discussions and practical exercises to develop expertise in the operations, marketing, human resource utilization, and financing of the small business venture. (A, CSU)

                                                              Management

                                                              3 units

                                                              Can use the course not taken as a part of the core in Term 1. 

                                                              BA 40
                                                              Supervision and Leadership
                                                              3 units
                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                              Focus on first-level (operational) supervision. Emphasis on planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. (A, CSU)
                                                              or
                                                              BA 43
                                                              Principles of Management
                                                              3 units
                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                              In-depth study of the primary management functions including: strategic and tactical planning; decision-making; organizational design and systems; leadership, motivation and communication; and control systems. (A, CSU)

                                                              BA 51
                                                              Business Planning

                                                              1.5 units
                                                              Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                              This course focuses on the development of business plans and the review of resources available to assist entrepreneurs in creating and launching a business, including sources of funding. Review of resources available to assist entrepreneurs in developing and launching a business including sources of funding. (A, CSU)
                                                              Course Details:
                                                              1. Advisory: BA 10
                                                              2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                1. CSU Transfer

                                                                  CIT 15
                                                                  Computer Concepts

                                                                  3 units
                                                                  Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                  This course is designed as an introduction to computer concepts and their use. The topics in this course include the basic principles of hardware and software, application programs, systems software, telecommunications, networks, program design, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. Students will work with Windows and the Internet, word processing, spreadsheet, database programs, and a programming language. (A, CSU, UC)
                                                                  Course Details:
                                                                  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                    1. CSU Transfer

                                                                      MKTG 10
                                                                      Principles of Marketing

                                                                      3 units
                                                                      Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                                      Utilizing both traditional and contemporary approaches, this course explores marketing's role in creating profitable exchanges including the examination, analysis, reasoning, advocacy, and critique of planning, product development, pricing, distribution, and promotion. Also researches and evaluates how consumer behavior, market research, retailing, and current technologies are used to achieve organizational goals. (A, CSU)
                                                                      Course Details:
                                                                      1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                        1. CSU Transfer

                                                                          RE 40
                                                                          Real Estate Principles

                                                                          3 units
                                                                          Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                                                                          This course covers California real estate history, real property descriptions, public and private restrictions, terminology, agency and contracts, forms, licensure, and careers in real estate. (A, CSU)
                                                                          Course Details:
                                                                          1. Advisory: ENGL C1000
                                                                            1. CSU Transfer

                                                                              RE 41
                                                                              Real Estate Practice

                                                                              3 units
                                                                              Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                                                                              Day-to-day operations affecting brokers and sales persons, listings, advertising and marketing techniques. (A, CSU)
                                                                              Total: 20 units