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Transfer Program
Business Education (AS.BE)
This curriculum is for students interested in business education who plan to transfer to a four-year college or university. Course requirements are modified to meet demands of individual universities. Upon completion of this program, students may transfer as juniors to four-year colleges and universities. This is a sample list of major requirements. Consult a counselor or academic advisor before registering. Four-year college requirements vary from college to college.
Specific graduation requirements are identified through degree audit. Additional developmental courses in math, reading and English may be required based on placement scores. Only courses with a course number of 100 or higher meet graduation requirements for AA/AS/AES degrees.
For more information contact:
Tynia Kessler
(217)234-5351
tkessler@lakeland.cc.il.us
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Electives must be approved by Program Coordinator or Division Chair |
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SOS 050 Human Relations and PSY 271 Introduction to Psychology cannot be used as a social science elective |
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| First Semester |
ENG 120|
Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.
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Composition I
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3
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BUS 142|
Covers the objectives, organization, and role of business in the free-enterprise system. The course is designed to provide an overview of the field of business and to provide a framework into which specialized fields may be studied. Course Outline
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Introduction to Business
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3
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Science (IAI L)
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4
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Humanities(IAI H)
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3
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Fine Arts (IAI F)
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3
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Total Semester Hours: |
16
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ENG 121|
Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
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Composition II
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3
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CIS 160|
Provides an opportunity for the student to work with various types of software on the PC. These learning activities include MS Windows, Word Processing, Spreadsheet Design,Database Management, Internet access, and presentation program. (Repeatable 3 Times)
Prerequisites: Students must take CIS 040 or have previous HS experience
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Practical Software Applications
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3
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Science (IAI P)
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3
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SPE 111|
Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences. Course Outline
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Introduction to Speech Communication
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3
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Elective
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3
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Total Semester Hours: |
15
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| First Semester |
BUS 151|
A study of the financial statements, the accounting process and the principles and procedures underlying items on the financial statements.
Prerequisites: HS acct, BUS 085, BUS 095 or consent of instructor
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Financial Accounting
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3
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BUS 200|
An introduction to legal systems and law, especially the U.S. legal system. Business-legal relationships in the areas of criminal law, torts, product liability, and contracts are examined. Antitrust, consumer, labor, and environmental law are studied; also the international marketplace. Course Outline
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Legal Environment of Business
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3
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ECO 231|
Focuses on the nature and method of economics, basic supply and demand analysis, national income accounting, business cycles, inflation and unemployment, fiscal policy, money and banking, and monetary policy. Course Outline
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Principles of Economics I
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3
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HIS 153|
The course will introduce the student to history and culture in the third world from ancient civilizations to the modern era. This course will focus upon broad themes in history and culture and will examine those themes in each major historical era. Course Outline
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History and Culture of the Third World
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3
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Elective
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6
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18
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BUS 152|
Designed to use accounting information to help management make decisions concerning product costing, planning and controlling operations in an ever-changing business environment.
Prerequisites: BUS 151
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Managerial Accounting
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ECO 232|
Focuses on free enterprise and the economic functions of government, advanced supply and demand analysis, pricing in competitive/non-competitive markets, and pricing in resource markets.
Prerequisites: ECO 231
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Principles of Economics II
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3
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POS 160|
The fundamental principles of the American Government are summarized. Such topics as federalism, civil liberties, citizenship, parties and elections, the Presidency, Congress, Judiciary, and national policies and politics are discussed within the framework of the American Constitutional system. Course Outline
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American National Government
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3
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MAT 125|
Application of elementary principles of descriptive statistics including frequency distribution, graphical presentation, measure of location and variation. Elements of probability, sampling techniques, binomial and normal distribution and other topics.
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Statistics
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3
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EDU 100|
An overview of the American education system. Social, historical and philosophical foundations give perspective to an examination of current issues, policies and trends in the field of education, including cultural diversity. A 30 hours practical lab is required for this course. Course Outline
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Introduction to Education
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15
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BUS 141|
Provides students a practical strategy for creating successful communication products used in business.
Prerequisites: BUS 113 or the equivalent
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Business Communications
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PSY 271|
Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing concepts and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology. Course Outline
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Introduction to Psychology
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3
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BUS 247|
Covers the selection of target markets; the controllable variables of the marketing mix including product, place, price and promotion; and the uncontrollable variables including legal environment, economic environment, resources and objectives, cultural environment and the existing business structure. Course Outline
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Principles of Marketing
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3
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BUS 251|
Provides an overview of how managers utilize planning, organization, leadership, and control in order to ensure that a firm achieves its goals in the most efficient way possible. Course Outline
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Principles of Management
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3
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BUS 285|
A study of the labor and employment laws that have the greatest impact on the relationship between employers and employees, and the strategies managers utilize to maintain an effective level of employee satisfaction. Transfers as elective credit only.
Prerequisites: BUS 142 or consent of instructor
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Labor Relations
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3
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BUS 287|
An introduction to foreign trade theory and practice, with special emphasis on cultural diversity in the areas of marketing, management, finance economics, and the environment in which businesses function. Transfers as elective credit only.
Prerequisites: BUS 142 or Consent of instructor
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Introduction to International Business
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3
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BUS 290|
The managerial process of planning, developing, and controlling human resources within the organization is examined. Special emphasis will be placed on the areas of recruiting, selection, training, labor relations, salary, and fringe benefit administration. Transfers as elective credit only.
Prerequisites: BUS 142 or consent of instructor
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Human Resource Management
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3
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CIS 101|
An introduction to networking basics through the Internet. Students will learn about Internet services, etiquette, searches, E-mail, and other internet skills.(Repeatable 3 Times) Course Outline
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Internet Systems & Applications
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