Prerequisite(s): NA

Students will be able to log on and off a computer, use a mouse and create and use passwords. Student will know how to use the file hierarchy, libraries and to locate files on a computer. They will know how to use the Drive lettering system and can delete and restore files. Students will be able to use the internet for searches and navigate web pages.

Prerequisite(s): NA

Student will be able to maximize their potential by being mindful of how self-talk impacts their habits, attitude, beliefs and expectations. Students also learn strategies to eliminate procrastination and achieve goals. Each student will complete a DISC profile to better understand their preferred communication style, how it relates to their own personal and professional development and how their DiSC style relates to others.

Prerequisite(s): NA

Students will be able to perform essential functions in Word, Excel & Outlook. They will learn to navigate the software and create documents, workbooks, and emails while using Microsoft’s tools and short-cuts. Students identify features to open, navigate, edit and print documents in Word, format data in a spreadsheet and create formulas in Excel, and manage messages, tasks, and appointments in Outlook, resulting in the entry-level skills necessary to use these programs in the work environment. MOE100 MS Essentials=This course has 2 finals, that are added together and divided by 2 for the final score.

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Prerequisite(s): NA

Students will learn to type a minimum of 35 words per minute. They will learn keystroke fundamentals, keyboard by touch, and proper 10-key form.

Prerequisite(s): PBS100 Office Administration

Students will be able to define and explain the nature, purpose and scope of accounting, explain and conceptualize the accounting cycle and prepare books of original entry and perform double entries. Students will be able to prepare ledgers, a simple cash book and the trial balance, and prepare financial statements for a sole proprietor in accordance with the required format. Students will be able to distinguish between capital and revenue expenditure and prepare journal entries for correction of the accounting errors. Students will be able to prepare a bank reconciliation statement.

Prerequisite(s): NA

Students will be able to identify and explain the basics of computing, IT Concepts and Terminology, Infrastructure, Applications and Software, Security, and Database Fundamentals.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level course

Students will be able to develop all types of business communication including letters, memos, electronic communication, written reports, oral presentations, and interpersonal communication. The course also includes topics of resumes, application letters, interviewing tips, and employment follow-up documents.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses.

Students will be able to understand business in an increasingly global society with an introduction to business terminology, concepts, environments, systems, strategies, and current issues. Topics include an overview of the business environment, business ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, management, marketing, production, information systems, and financial elements of business.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses.

Understanding of the Principles of Management within the dimensions of the planning-organizing-leading-controlling (P-O-L-C) framework. Topics include roles of personality and values in determining work behaviors, setting goals and objectives, and communication within organizations. In addition, students will define organizational culture, structure and change while examining the role of strategic human resource management (SHRM). *This is an elective course. Students may substitute for GE108 Leadership.

Prerequisite(s): GE104 Introduction to Business

Students will be able to define marketing research, its various forms, and the organized steps in the marketing research process. They will be able to define the various types of market segmentation, including demographic and psychographic and identify the stages of the product life cycle and explain the importance to the marketer of consumer goods and services. Student will be able to analyze and apply strategies of effective pricing. Students will be able to discuss consumer ethics and identify and discuss current ethical dilemmas.

Prerequisite(s): GE104 Introduction to Business

Students will be able to identify human resources policies, procedures and disciplinary actions and describe variable pay and benefits designed to support an organizations strategy. Student will be able to emphasize the legal concerns of the selection process in recruiting and how to locate and attract good candidate and identify and measure job performance with organizational strategies. They will be able to demonstrate the designing of effective training programs, dealing with employee career issues.

Prerequisite(s): GE105 Principles of Management or GE108 Leadership

Students will be able to recognize issues in a realistic project scenario, produce a project proposal and discuss the implementation of a proposed plan. Student will employ work breakdown structures (WBS) in a project application and demonstrate the use of appropriate network scheduling techniques.

Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed 80% of their program.

Students will be able to search for a job within their field of study, conduct themselves professionally in a job interview and provide a resume tailored to each job position applied for. This course is designed for three particular points of views; those looking to change careers, those looking to advance their career and those who are entrepreneurs and want to start their own business. Career Services will put your career goals first, it is time you did as well.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level course

Students will be able to apply math fundamentals to business applications. Topics include a basic math review, business statistics, profit calculations, payroll, banking, interest calculations, insurance, taxes, and other business topics.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses.

Students will be able to intelligently discuss intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and understand theories of motivation proposed for instincts, drive reduction, self-efficacy, and social motives. In this course students will learn about the history and understand the score of study in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. *This is an elective course. Students may substitute for GE101 Critical Thinking. Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses. GE108 Leadership Students will be able to understand and apply leadership’s crucial skill areas; those related to the foundational elements, conceptual elements, human elements, technical elements, and political elements of effective leadership. Students will hone their skill bases in these areas through assessing their own level of competence in each skill and practicing the skills to improve their leadership effectiveness. * This is an elective course. Students may substitute for GE105 Principles of Management.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses

Students will be able to comprehend, analyze, and create inductive and deductive arguments. This course presents a variety of topics essential to a student’s development in critical thinking in additions to arguments, such as informal fallacies, modes of persuasion, perspective and bias, language and meaning, culminating in the development of reasonable strategies for belief formation. *This is an elective course. Students may substitute for GE107 Introduction to Psychology.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses

Students will be able to understand the intricacies of the Constitution, the complexities of federalism, the meanings of civil liberties, and the conflicts over civil rights. This course explains how people are socialized to politics, acquire, and express opinions, and participate in political life; describes interest groups, political parties, and elections—the intermediaries that link people to government and politics; details the branches of government and how they operate; and shows how policies are made and affect people’s lives. Nevada Students also take a Nevada Constitution course.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of the certificate level courses

Students will be able to understand and apply leadership’s crucial skill areas; those related to the foundational elements, conceptual elements, human elements, technical elements, and political elements of effective leadership. Students will hone their skill bases in these areas through assessing their own level of competence in each skill and practicing the skills to improve their leadership effectiveness. * This is an elective course. Students may substitute for GE105 Principles of Management.

Prerequisite(s): GE105 Principles of Management or GE108 Leadership

Students will be able to recognize issues in a realistic project scenario, produce a project proposal and discuss the implementation of a proposed plan. Student will employ work breakdown structures (WBS) in a project application and demonstrate the use of appropriate network scheduling techniques.

GE104 Introduction to Business

Prerequisite(s): NA

Students will be able to define marketing research, its various forms, and the organized steps in the marketing research process. They will be able to define the various types of market segmentation, including demographic and psychographic and identify the stages of the product life cycle and explain the importance to the marketer of consumer goods and services. Student will be able to analyze and apply strategies of effective pricing. Students will be able to discuss consumer ethics and identify and discuss current ethical dilemmas.