Business Administration, Management - Major #2181

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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:
    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:

      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

      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. AND
      2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
        3. )

      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. AND
      2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
        3. )
      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)
      Course Details:
        (
      1. Advisory: BA 10
        2. AND
      2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
        3. )

      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. OR
      2. Advisory: CIT 15
        3. ) AND
      3. Advisory:
        4. )
      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

        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

        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)
        Course Details:
        1. Advisory: ENGL C1000

        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

        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. AND
        2. Advisory: BA 10
          3. )

        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

        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. AND (
        2. Advisory: MATH 103
          3. OR
        3. Advisory:
          4. ))

        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)
        Course Details:
          ( (
        1. Advisory: BA 52
          2. OR
        2. Advisory:
          3. ) AND
        3. Advisory: ENGL C1000
          4. )

        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)
        Course Details:
          (
        1. Advisory: BA 10
          2. AND
        2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
          3. )
        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)
        Course Details:
          (
        1. Advisory: BA 10
          2. AND
        2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
          3. )

        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. AND
        2. Advisory: ENGL C1000
          3. )

        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

        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

        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

        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)
        Course Details:
          (
        1. Prerequisite: RE 40
          2. OR
        2. Prerequisite:
          3. )
        3. Advisory: ENGL C1000
        Total: 20 units