Business Administration Courses

BA-101 Introduction to Business

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Introduction to the American business system including business organization, accounting, finance, marketing, and management. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-131 Introduction to Business Computing [C]

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Use and application of Microsoft Office. Use Word, Excel, Access, and Powerpoint to create business documents. Internet features, multitasking, and File management. Designed for business majors. Also offered as an online course. Meets computer literacy requirement. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent.

BA-156 Applied Economics

3 credits, Winter Offered Online
3 credit hours/week

Basic economic principles applied to business decision-making, forecasting, and critical thinking skills related to budgeting, planning, financial analysis, and application of business policy, and practice. Designed for business majors. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-205 Solving Communication Problems with Technology [C]

4 credits, Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Skills and technology needed to communicate effectively. Organize and present business information electronically, including data collection, correspondence, business reporting, business presentations, and corporate communications. Meets computer literacy requirement. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass WR-121, pass BA-131.

BA-206 Management Fundamentals

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online
4 class hours/week

Concepts and theories of management with focus on planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. Organizational structures, planning principles, and international management techniques. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-211 Financial Accounting I

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Basic principles of accounting cycle for service and merchandising companies, journals, ledgers, accounting for cash, end-of-period operations, worksheets, entries, and financial statements. Emphasis on procedure and theory. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-212 Financial Accounting II

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Principles and practices in service and merchandising corporations, cash controls, receivables, assets, short-term and long-term liabilities and debt, and financial statements. Corporate analysis of financial position including the cash flow statement. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-211.

BA-213 Decision Making with Accounting Information

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Accounting for manufacturing operations, cost systems, capital budgeting, variances and budget performance reports, job order, and process, flow, and standard costing. Presentation and interpretation of accounting data to aid decisions. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-212.

BA-216 Cost Accounting

3 credits, Winter
3 class hours/week

Statement analysis, budgeting, pricing concepts, production reports, cost estimation, by-products and joint products, spoilage and scrap materials, standard cost, job order, and process flow systems. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-213.

BA-217 Budgeting for Managers

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Budgeting vocabulary, finance, record keeping, cash management, cash budgeting, and capital budgeting. Recommended that students have prior course work and/or experience in accounting or work-related budgeting. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-218 Personal Finance

3 credits, Spring Offered Online every term
3 class hours/week

Goal setting, budgeting, use of credit, personal financial statements, consumer spending and saving, investment options, risk management, and estate and tax planning. Financial planning tools and practical self-assessment. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-222 Financial Management

3 credits, Winter
3 class hours/week

Concepts, techniques, and decision process to manage a firm's sources and uses of funds. Working capital, ratio analysis, leverage, operating budgets, working capital management, cost of capital, capital budgeting, and evaluation of financial alternatives. Prerequisite: Pass BA-212.

BA-223 Principles of Marketing

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online
4 class hours/week

Survey and application of marketing principles and vocabulary in profit and non-profit organizations. Product planning, distribution, promotion, price, and customer service are analyzed and applied. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-224 Human Resource Management

3 credits, Fall/Spring
3 class hours/week

Traditional, current, and emerging personnel practices. Practical and realistic approach to human resource management, employee welfare, working conditions, selection and placement, personnel functions, and the responsibilities of the personnel director. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-225 Business Report Writing

3 credits, Spring Offered Online
3 credit hours/week

Focuses on the skills and techniques required to write and produce professional business reports, including research, writing, formatting, and presentation. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisites: Pass WR-121 & pass BA-205 or instructor consent.

BA-226 Introduction to Business Law I

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Concepts, principles, and rules of law applicable to business transactions. Emphasis on constitution, courts, business crimes, torts, and consumer contract law. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-227 Business Law II

4 credits, Winter Offered Online every term
4 class hours/week

Emphasis on real and personal property, negotiable instruments, insurance, documents of title, secured transaction, bailments, commercial paper, agency, bankruptcy, suretyship, bulk sales, and estate planning. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-226.

BA-228 Business Presentations

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Skills and techniques to design and produce persuasive business presentations, including audience analysis, organization, scripting, graphics, and appropriate presentation technology. Group projects using Microsoft Powerpoint. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-205 or instructor consent.

BA-238 Sales

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Focus on professional selling principles and techniques as applied both in business and interpersonal settings. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-101.

BA-239 Advertising

4 credits, Fall
4 class hours/week

Relationship to marketing, including how advertising helps accomplish marketing objectives. Advertising planning and strategy and examination of various communication vehicles carrying the advertising message. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-101.

BA-240 Governmental Accounting

4 credits, Fall
4 class hours/week

Accounting procedures, records, and statements to summarize and disclose the results of nonprofit and governmental activities. Budgetary accounting, general, special revenue, capital projects, debt service, enterprise, and proprietary funds, general fixed asset accounts, etc. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-212.

BA-242 Introduction to Investments

3 credits, not offered every term
3 class hours/week

Studies securities, investment concepts, and economic trends for the private investor. Discusses investment objectives, portfolios, corporate securities, and securities market. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-249 Auditing

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Auditing standards and procedures by the CPAs in the examination and issuance of audit reports. Generally accepted auditing standards and conceptual framework necessary for collection of evidence and assessment of risk. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-213.

BA-250 Introduction to Small Business

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Managing a small business, identifying a market opportunity, developing a business plan, and meeting the competition. Also financial accounting and cash-flow projections. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-101.

BA-251 Office Management

3 credits, Winter
3 class hours/week

Role and responsibilities of the office manager. Analyzing business, restructuring office systems and training needs, dealing with change, staffing practices affecting human resources, managing human resources, leadership, decision-making and motivational skills, and managing teams. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-256 Income Tax Accounting

3 credits, Fall
3 class hours/week

Detailed review of the federal tax structure as it relates to the preparation of individual tax returns. Also provides a brief overview of partnership and corporate tax returns. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BA-261 Consumer Behavior

4 credits, Spring
4 class hours/week

Consumer behavior and its application to marketing strategies. Concepts and models of the consumer decision-making process, personal and interpersonal factors and their impact on consumer decisions. Recommended: Placement in RD-115. Prerequisite: Pass BA-101.

BA-265 eManagement

3 Credits, Winter Offered Online
3 class hours/term

Advanced examination of the Internet as a tool; economic realities of electronic commerce, infrastructure and technologies for specific business activities, business strategies for application of electronic commerce. Prerequisites: Pass BA-101, pass BT-184, and pass WR-121.

BA-266 Advanced eMarketing

3 Credits, Spring Offered Online
3 class hours/term

Use of the Internet for global marketing efforts. Development of marketing strategy using the Internet for competitive advantage by reaching specific target markets, and for obtaining primary and secondary market research information. Prerequisites: Pass BA-223, pass BT-184, and pass WR-121.

BA-267 Project Team Tools

3 credits, Fall Offered Online
3 class hours/term

Individuals and work teams perform needs-analysis, negotiating/contracting for goals and resources, work/task breakdown, project flowchart and schedule, resource allocation, time estimates, critical path, budgeting, contingency planning, project monitoring and reporting. Project documentation software. Prerequisites: Pass BA-285 and pass BT-184.

BA-280 Business/CWE

3-6 credits Fall/Winter/Spring
1.5 class, 9-18 job site hours/week

Cooperative work experience. On-the-job experience in a business related to the student's major course of study. Under supervision of instructor and employer. Required: Instructor consent & a CWE seminar.

BA-285 Human Relations in Business

4 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring
4 class hours/week

Basic psychology and human relations techniques in building better employer/employee relationships. Interpersonal relations both on the job and in everyday life. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BT- Courses with this prefix may not transfer with credit to a four-year institution.

Business Technology

BT-104 Business Math

3 credits, Fall/Winter
3 class hours/week

Math skills applicable to the business environment. Mark-up, mark-down, simple interest, present value, stocks, bonds, mutuals, and credit cards. Introduces accounting topics such as depreciation, financial statements, and ratios. Prerequisite: Pass MTH-050.

BT-105 Computerized Accounting

3 credits, Spring Offered Online
3 class hours/week

Hands-on experience using integrated accounting software. Currently using Quickbooks. Emphasis on performing general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable functions. Also offered as an online course. Prerequisite: Pass BA-211 or pass BT-115.

BT-109 Payroll Accounting

3 credits, Winter
3 class hours/week

Basic personnel payroll records necessary in business firms, laws affecting payroll systems, procedures used in computing wages, salaries and deductions, and manual preparation of payroll records and reports. Prerequisite: Pass BA-211 or pass BT-115.

BT-11O Basic Income Tax

7 credits, Fall
8 class hours/week

Assists income tax preparers in preparing personal income tax returns. Approved by the Oregon State Board of Tax Service Examiners to fulfill the requirements of ORS.673.605 to 673.735. Pre-

pares the individual to take the State Board Exam in order to. be licensed by the Board of Tax Service Examiners.

BT-115 Introduction to General Accounting/Bookkeeping

3 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring
3 class hours/week

Bookkeeping and accounting systems with procedures emphasized. Accounting cycle, general and special journals, subsidiary ledgers, accounting for cash, and end-of-period operations.

BT-120 Personal Keyboarding [C]

2 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
2 class, 1 lab hour/week

Basic instruction on electronic alphanumeric keyboard. Provides practice for speed and accuracy with individuals program. Students will develop the necessary skills to effectively use the Internet, use e-mail, and create simple documents. Meets computer literacy requirement.

BT-122 Keyboarding Skillbuilding

2 credits, Fall Offered Online
2 class, 1 lab hour/week

Designed to improve typing proficiency using microcomputers. Students will refine and further develop speed and accuracy skills learned in BT-120 Personal Keyboarding. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent.

BT-124 Business English I

3 credits, Fall/Winter Offered Online every term
3 class hours/week

Course builds communication skills through the study of correct usage of grammar, spelling, effective writing and editing principles. Also offered as an online course.

BT-125 Business English II

3 credits, Winter Offered Online every term
3 class hours/week

Course follows BT-124 and will continue to build communication skills by studying correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary usage, and writing principals. Also offered as an online course. Prerequisite: Pass BT-124, "C" or better.

BT-145 Medical. Insurance & Billing

3 credits, Fall
3 class hours/week

Computer-based record keeping activities in a medical office including scheduling patients and preparing the daily patient list, making entries for patient accounts (receipts and statements), processing accounts payable (check writing, preparing bank deposits, and accounting for daily. cash balances), and handling health insurance forms.

BT-150 Wordperfect for Windows [C]

3 credits, not offered every year
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Use of basic word processing concepts. Internet includes downloading and copying graphics onto documents and e-mail. Meets computer literacy requirement. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent

BT-160 MS Word for Windows [C]

3 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Create and print a variety of business documents. Formatting skills include changing margins, indenting text, manipulating tabs, super/subscript test, and creating section/page breaks. Enhance documents using special features. Introduction to Internet. Recommended: 35

words per minute typing skill. Meets computer literacy requirement. Also offered as an online course. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent.

BT-161 Intermediate Microsoft Word [C]

3 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Create, customize, and print a variety of business documents, such as newspaper columns, merging letters and mailing labels, and tables. Formatting and special features. Internet usage includes creating a web page. Recommended: 40 words per minute typing skill. Meets computer literacy requirement. Also offered as an online course. Prerequisite: Pass BT-160.

BT-170 Access [C]

3 credits, Spring Offered Online
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Study and application of Microsoft Access involving database creation, queries, forms, and reports. Business applications include performing calculations on databases, adding graphics, creating multiple forms enhanced with Internet hyperlink, and composing text. Meets computer literacy requirement. Prerequisite: Pass BT- 120 or instructor consent.

BT-176 Excel for Windows [C]

3 credits, Fall/Winter Offered Online every term
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Study and application of Microsoft Excel involving spreadsheets, graphics, and database. Business applications include utilizing web queries, adding hyperlink to a worksheet, saving worksheets as HTML files, and object linking and embedding with other applications. Meets

computer literacy requirement. Also offered as an online course. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120.

BT-183 Introduction to eCommerce

3 credits, Fall/Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
3 class hours/week

Overview of eCommerce including fundamental models for business to business and business to consumer. Topics include defining eCommerce, development of the World Wide Web,

eCommerce processes, online retailing, and online customer relations. Also offered as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BT 184 Basic eBusiness Methods

3 credits, Winter/Spring Offered Online every term
3 class hours/week

Using the Internet for business research, peer-networking, information searches, customer access, and customer service, in-depth information on management policies and practices, financial information, organizational behavior, and human resource management. Also offered

as an online course. Recommended: Placement in RD-115.

BT-190 Business Graphics

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Focuses on the effective use of computer-generated graphics to enhance business documents and presentations. Explore appropriate methods for the display of quantitative data and practice

basic techniques for creating, importing and exploring computer graphics. Prerequisite: Pass BA-205 or instructor consent.

BT-191 Document Design & Publishing

3 credits, Spring Offered Online
3 class hours/week

Principles of document design and production for effective communication. Appropriate use of type, page layout techniques, integration of text and graphics, style guides and templates, effective use of color, printing options, and production management. Prerequisite: Pass BA-205 or instructor consent.

BT-220P Desktop Publishing I: PageMaker

3 credits, Winter Offered Online every term
3 class, 1 lab hour/week

Introduction to electronic page layout and production using Adobe PageMaker. Covers fundamental program functions and techniques for working with text and graphics to create professional-looking business publications. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent.

BT 220Q Desktop Publishing I: Quark XPress

3 credits, not offered every term
3 class, 1 lab hour/week

Introduction to electronic page layout and producing using Quark XPress. Covers fundamental program functions and techniques for working with text and graphics to create professional-looking business publications. Prerequisites: Pass BA- 131 or pass CS- 121 or instructor consent.

BT-221P Desktop Publishing II: PageMaker

3 credits, not offered every year
3 class, 1 lab hour/week

Intermediate electronic page layout and production using Adobe PageMaker. Emphasis on practical applications using advanced program functions and techniques to create more complex business publications. Prerequisite: Pass BT-220P

BT-240 Filing & Records Management

3 credits, Spring
3 class hours/week

Principles and procedures for classifying, storing, retrieving, retaining, and disposing of business records. Includes filing rules, types of filing systems, equipment, supplies, and personnel qualifications. Prerequisite: Pass BT-120 or instructor consent.

BT-262 Advanced Microsoft Word [C]

3 credits, Spring
3 class, 2 lab hours/week

Advanced level Microsoft Word uses desktop publishing attributes in creating business forms, outlines, master documents, templates, and specialized tables and indexes. Advanced formatting features and functions. File management. Introduction to machine transcription. Recommended: 45 words per minute typing skill. Meets computer literacy requirement. Prerequisite: Pass BT-161.

Additional Courses Required for eBusiness(eCommerce) Degree

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ART-115 Basic Design: Two Dimensional Design

ART-116 Basic Design: Color Theory & Composition

ASC-200 Natural Science Inquiry

ASC-201 Integrated Science Concepts

ASC-202 Integrated Science Concepts

CS-125H Web Site Design & HTML

CS-135DBAdvanced Database

CS-135IAdvanced Internet Applications

EC-201 Principles of Economics: MICRO

EC-202 Principles of Economics: MACRO

HE-249 Mental Health

HE-250 Personal Health

MTH-105Introduction to Contemporary Math

MTH-111 College Algebra

MTH-243 Probability & Statistics

MTH-244 Statistics

SP-111 Public Speaking

SP-112 Persuasive Speaking

WR-121 English Composition

WR-122 English Composition

WR-123 English Composition

WR-165 Writing on the Worldwide Web [C]