+Associate of Applied Business in Business Management Technology

Cynthia L. Miglietti, Ph.D., program director

This degree is awarded to a student who successfully completes the career-oriented programs listed below. Students can choose from four majors: accounting, general business management, industrial management and retail management.

Graduates from the program will possess a general knowledge of business including economics, marketing, management, accounting, human resource management, total quality leadership and finance.

Accounting
The accounting major prepares students for paraprofessional positions in industrial, public or governmental accounting. It is designed to provide the graduate with the theoretical and practical accounting knowledge and skills required of business personnel in today's economy. Many of the courses in the two-year accounting program are applicable to the four-year bachelor's degree in business.

Learning Outcomes

Graduates with this major will possess the following knowledge and skills:

• A detailed understanding of financial, managerial, cost and tax accounting as well as electronic bookkeeping;
• The ability to put into practice the theory learned in the accounting classes.

First year

• General education
  
  • ENG 110, 111 and/or 112 (3-8)
  • IPC 102 (3)
• Basic courses
  
  • MIS 200 (3)
  • MATH 120 or 126 (5)
• Core courses
  
  • ACCT 221, 222 (6)
  • ACT 231* (3)
  • BAT 102 (3)

Second year

• General education
  
  • ECON 202 or 203 (3)
  • General education electives (6)
• Basic courses
  
  • STAT 211, 212; or
  • STAT 200, BUSE 101 (6)
  • BA 203 (3)
• Core courses
  
  • ACT 241*, 251* (6)
  • BAT 201, 205 (6)
  • BAT 207, FIN 200 or 300 (3)
  • ACT 225* (3)

*Designed only for the associate degree in accounting.

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