Course Number
Course Name
Credit Hours
Foundation
CD2600
2
Course Description:
This course provides information and resources important for anyone’s career development. It uses guest presenters and mock interviews, in addition to individual consultations, to provide career guidance. The class starts by having the students perform a self-assessment of their interests and values while at the same time, focusing on their professional goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding how to create a successful resume no matter where a person is in their career path. In addition, it highlights how to apply a variety of other job search documents and needing to execute follow-up. Instructors illustrate traditional and nontraditional methods of job searching to include some of the latest online resources. A significant element of this course is training students to have great interviewing skills. Additional time is spent researching employers, exploring employment opportunities available in the area, and setting up interviews with prospective employers. Toward the end of this course, students also learn value of teamwork and being successful in their career. By applying these techniques and suggestions in this course, students are able to approach their career exploration and job search with a more confident and winning attitude. This course is scheduled during the final or next to last quarter of the program.
CPU1000
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with an introduction to computers and computer literacy. Students will gain a basic understanding of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications through a hands-on approach.
CPU2120
4
Course Description:
This course prepares students for an in-depth study of word processing techniques. Students completing this course are able to perform word processing functions ranging from document editing and formatting to graphics and web design. The class is structured to provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice and apply their skills.
CPU2200
4
Course Description:
This course prepares students for an in-depth study of spreadsheet techniques. Students learn skills that will enable them to organize and analyze numerical data, perform calculations, graph data, develop reports, create macros, use data analysis tools, and incorporate the use of the Internet. The class is structured to provide students with hands-on opportunities to practice and apply their skills.
INF1100
2
Course Description:
This course introduces students to lifelong learning skills necessary to critically assess and use information. The student will learn techniques to effectively locate, evaluate, and select information, to think critically about research strategies, ethical use of resources, and to apply these concepts to research using Learning Resource Center resources.
PSY1050
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to enhance the college learning experience and prepare students for personal and professional success. Concepts presented include managing change, setting and achieving goals, and thinking in ways to create success. This course also incorporates assessments that will increase one’s self-awareness, and improve the student’s interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
General Education Courses
COM1050
4
Course Description:
This course focuses on helping students develop writing, researching, and critical thinking skills through writing paragraphs and essays using different rhetorical styles. Students also gain experience with peer reviewing. Students are required to earn a grade of C or higher to satisfy the requirements of this course.
ECN2000
4
Course Description:
This course is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources among competing interests. Students learn about different economic systems, as well as the production, distribution, and use of material goods and services. This course presents economics as a method of thought and a way of taking hold of a problem, breaking it down, and working systematically through a solution.
MAT1500
4
Course Description:
This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
PSY2000
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
SPC1010
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with the basic skills necessary to organize their thoughts and communicate effectively through public speaking. Students learn to research, organize, and properly convey oral messages. Through practical classroom application, students gain sound experience in the art of oral presentation.
Professional
ACC1010
4
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the process used to analyze, record, classify, summarize, and interpret financial information. They are shown how to assemble financial statements following the steps in the accounting cycle. The Combination Journal is used to record transactions of a service business. Students will receive an overview of payroll accounting.
ACC1020
4
Course Description:
This course builds on students’ knowledge from Accounting I to present entries and adjustments necessary to record transactions for a merchandising business. Additional topics include notes receivable, notes payable, depreciation, and inventory.
ACC1050
4
Course Description:
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the accounting principles in the areas of payroll and 10-key proficiency. Payroll presents the regulatory provisions of federal and state unemployment laws. The student prepares weekly and monthly payrolls, and a summary sheet from which the payroll journal entries are made. Students are also trained on the 10-key calculator with an emphasis on speed and accuracy.
ACC1070
4
Course Description:
This course provides an understanding of federal and state income tax laws for both individuals and businesses. Students review requirements of the Social Security Administration, as well as gain experience on both individual and business tax returns. Individual returns emphasize the various credits including the child care credit, earned income credit, and credit for the elderly and disabled. It also stresses the itemized deductions available to individuals. Business returns emphasize payroll, depreciation, capital gains and losses, withholding and estimated payment requirements, and tax planning.
ACC1150
4
Course Description:
This course utilizes the popular Peachtree® Accounting software package to teach students to set up and maintain a company, record transactions in the general journal, sales and purchases journals, and cash receipts and distributions journals. Students also learn how to reconcile various ledger accounts, and generate and analyze financial statements.
ACC2010
4
Course Description:
This course emphasizes the accounting principles that apply to partnerships and corporations. Students learn how partnerships and corporations are formed and the entries necessary to record transactions related to capital stock and stockholders’ equity. Students gain experience in analyzing and interpreting data, and get a review of departmental and manufacturing accounting financial statements.
ACC2020
4
Course Description:
This course facilitates an understanding of accounting in a cost environment utilizing both the traditional and activity based methodology. Students will review contribution margins and learn to make cost decisions for both variable and fixed accounting systems. Budgets, control systems, and cost allocations are topics covered in this course along with the cash flow scenarios dealing with both direct and indirect cost measurement. Capitalization and expenditure decisions are also investigated.
ACC2300
4
Course Description:
This course emphasizes the framework of an Integrated Audit for publicly held corporations with a focus on the increased regulatory requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. Students will learn about business risk and financial risk within the audit structure. Sampling and compilation of data required for the audit will be a focus of study. Students will learn the information, theories, and concepts within various practice audit scenarios.
ACC3020
4
Course Description:
In this course students maintain cost accounting records for a manufacturing business and become familiar with the elements of production costs; namely, direct material, direct labor, and factory overhead expenses. Problems are used to illustrate job, production order, process and standard cost systems. Students learn to keep cost records that enable them to prepare financial statements, showing the cost of goods manufactured, cost of sales, and the net profit before and after federal income tax.
ACC3150
4
Course Description:
This course facilitates an understanding of federal and state income tax laws for corporations, partnerships, S corps and non taxable entities. Students will review requirements of the Internal Revenue Service corporate sector, as well as gain experience on business tax returns. Individual returns emphasize the various deductions and credits applicable to the business environment. Business returns will also emphasize payroll, depreciation, capital gains and losses, withholding and estimated payment requirements, and tax planning.
ACC3400
4
Course Description:
This course is designed to broaden the base of students’ knowledge of accounting. In dealing with subject matters, both sides are presented and frequent reference is made to the expressed opinions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the American Accounting Association, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ACC3500
4
Course Description:
This course covers specific topics including inventories, current and noncurrent operating assets, current and contingent liabilities, and long-term liabilities.
ACC4250
4
Course Description:
This course emphasizes the framework of an Integrated Audit for publicly held corporations with a focus on the processes and risks along with the internal controls required for an audit. Students will learn about inquiry, sampling, testing and completion of an Integrated Audit. Students will learn how to complete the audit using various practice audit scenarios.
ACC4650
4
Course Description:
This course facilitates the knowledge and understanding of financial statement analysis through interaction with a variety of methods. Utilizing the course materials, students will use financial statement data to make managerial and financial decisions.
BUS1000
4
Course Description:
This course presents fundamental business concepts and contemporary issues to introduce the student to the purposes and functions of business.
BUS1010
4
Course Description:
This course combines the understanding of legal theory with an acquaintance of the various forms of contracts. Students are taught the essentials of the legal environment of business, tort law, contracts, commercial transactions, government regulations, and property.
BUS1050
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with a basic understanding of mathematics concepts and methods applied to business situations. Topics covered include banking, markups and markdowns, trade and cash discounts, payroll, simple and compound interest, and promissory notes and the discount process. The course also covers annuities, installment buying and charge credit cards, home ownership expenses, interpreting financial reports, and depreciation.
BUS3650
4
Course Description:
This course will provide the student with an understanding of terms, definitions, and formulae used in computing statistics. Topics studied include: presentation and interpretation of numerical data, measures of central tendency, dispersion, probability, continuous and discrete probability distribution, regression and chi-square distribution.
FIN2000
4
Course Description:
This course is an examination of the world of finance and the tools utilized in the financial industry. Topics to be covered include financial institutions, international currency flows, time value of money, risk analysis, investment vehicles, and corporate finance. Students will apply these concepts to real world situations through computer activities and problem-solving assignments.
FIN3500
4
Course Description:
This course is an examination of financial management, forecasting, and analysis. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, time value of money, and capital budgeting. Students will apply these concepts to real world situations to develop managerial skills.
INT2990
4
Course Description:
This course provides students with actual on-the-job learning activities to be taken during the last or next to last quarter of instruction.
MGT2000
4
Course Description:
This course provides valuable information for students who will be entering business as employees and who eventually may have the opportunity to manage a business for others. Also, students who may eventually own and operate their own business will benefit greatly from this course. The material is presented to aid students in learning the appropriate terminology used in business and the many activities involved in the successful operation of a business.
MGT3000
4
Course Description:
This course exposes the student to both sides of past and present ethical dilemmas facing the world. Course content includes an overview of individual ethical development, ethical issues in business today, the opportunity and conflict of ethical issues, an ethical decision-making framework, and the development of an effective ethics program in a corporation.
MGT3100
4
Course Description:
This course focuses on the meaning and role of information technology within a business setting and offers a broad perspective of the relationship between organizational goals, information technology and strategic advantage.
MGT3250
4
Course Description:
This course investigates the behavior of people within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organizations' effectiveness. Three levels of behavior are studied: individual, individuals within a group, and inter-group behavior within organizations.
MGT4100
4
Course Description:
This course covers the scope of international business and the dimensions of multinational enterprises. The student will study exporting and marketing in foreign business environments.