Baccalaureate Certificate in Business
The Business Certificate is for non-business majors who want an overview of business concepts in order to enhance their future career success, but do not want to pursue a full business minor. The goal of the certificate is to enable non-business students to learn how to apply fundamental concepts in economics, accounting, finance, management and marketing to solve basic business problems. It is not available to business majors or to students pursuing a business administration minor.
*All minors and certificates are open to non-business students. The following applies to business majors:
- the Accounting minor is not available to business students in the Accounting option
- the Finance minor is not available to business students in the Finance option
- the Business Administration minor, the Business Certificate, and the Entrepreneurship Certificate are not available to any business students.
Students cannot pursue a Business Certificate and a Business Administration minor nor an Entrepreneurship Certificate and an Entrepreneurship minor.
In accordance with the Board of Regents' policy, students must earn a C- or better in all courses in a minor or certificate.
Program Learning Outcomes
- The learning goals for the JJCBE are listed below. These are also the college’s learning goals used for AACSB accreditation.
Knowledge of Business: Students will have strong working knowledge of fundamental concepts in accounting, finance, management, marketing, information technology, strategy, and law. - Critical Thinking: Students will learn to effectively and persuasively assimilate and evaluate information to solve business problems.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students will be able to interpret, represent, and evaluate quantitative information and integrate such information into business decisions and recommendations.
- Effective Written Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, adopt an appropriate tone, employ correct grammar, sentence structure and mechanics, use appropriate vocabulary, and correctly cite sources for facts, quotations and ideas.
- Effective Oral Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, successfully employ technology in support of a message, speak extemporaneously with minimal hesitations and fillers, adopt an appropriate tone, use appropriate vocabulary, employ correct grammar and sentence structure, and manage presentation pacing and timing effectively.
- Ethical Decision Making and Social Responsibility: Students will recognize the ethical and societal implications of proposed actions, employ decision-making tools to evaluate the ethical and societal effects of a variety of options, and make sound decisions in accordance with the analysis and evaluation of options.
The Business Certificate consists of five required courses that introduce students to basic concepts in economics, business, accounting, finance, management and marketing, plus one elective.
| BGEN 105IS | Introduction to Business | 3 |
| ECNS 101IS | Economic Way of Thinking | 3 |
| Select one (1) course from the following: | 3 | |
| Accounting and Finance Basics | ||
| Business Finance | ||
| Business Fundamentals for Technical Professionals | ||
| Engineering Economic Analysis | ||
| Econ Org, Finance & Credit | ||
| Agriculture Finance and Credit Analysis | ||
| BMGT 335 | Management and Organization | 3 |
| or EIND 300 | Engineering Management & Ethics | |
| BMKT 325 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Select one (1) course from the following: | 3 | |
| Principles of Financial Accounting | ||
| Introduction to International Business | ||
| Principles of Business Law | ||
| Negotiation/Dispute Resolution | ||
| Sustainable Business Practices | ||
| Entrepreneurship | ||
| Small Business Management | ||
| Community Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Management | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Sales and Sales Management | ||
| Retail Management | ||
| Marketing for Entrepreneurs | ||
| Production Inventory Cost Analysis | ||
| Technology Entrepreneurship | ||
| Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Food and Health | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |
In accordance with the Board of Regents' policy, students must earn a C- or better in all courses applied toward the certificate. Students may not earn both the Business Administration minor and the Business certificate.