Retailing

Effective: Fall 2016
Certificate of Proficiency Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu / admissions / degreeworks
Program Description
The Certificate of Proficiency in Retailing consists of only FIVE classes. It is your first step towards earning an EIGHT-course Certificate of Achievement in Retail Management. This certificate was developed out of a collaborative effort between several industry and college professionals. Both certificates will prepare you for a supervisory or managerial position in the retail industry. Required classes can be taken in any sequence; there are no prerequisites to begin the program. All classes are available online, so you can complete this program fully online. The goal of the certificate is immediate employment or promotion.

What can I do with this major?
You will work in a fast-paced and diverse retail industry with many opportunities for advancement. Careers are available in all areas of business and with over 42 million people employed, and responsible for 1 in 4 jobs in the United States. The certificate prepares you for managerial positions in retailing, merchandising, and distributing businesses.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Business, Economics & Information Technology

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

Semester 1

9 units

BUS 14
Business Communications

3 units
This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL 1

BUS 22
Introduction to Management

3 units
Principles and concepts of traditional management tasks, contemporary management challenges including human relations, diversity, quality, social responsibility and ethics, the global environment, human resource management, business communications, competitiveness, motivation, leadership and teamwork.
Course Details:

BUS 36
Introduction to Marketing

3 units
Survey of marketing, including consumer behavior, company and environmental analysis, market segmentation, product development, pricing, promotion, and distribution. Marketing for small and large businesses, startups, governments, and institutions. Personal, consumer, business to business and digital marketing are included.
Course Details:

Semester 2

6 units

BUS 28
Human Relations in the Workplace1

3 units
Business concepts of individual, group, and organizational human behavior as they affect human relations, performance, and productivity within the workplace. Strategies and techniques that influence communications, employee leadership and interactions among people—including cultural diversity and its impact—are explored.
Course Details:
Terms Offered: Spring

BUS 32
Retail Store Management2

3 units
Principles and practices used in the management of retail stores, includes site selection, layout, organization, staffing, positioning, customer service, promotional techniques, buying, pricing, store security, and information systems.
Course Details:
  • 1 - Chabot offers BUS 28 in Spring semester only. However, you can take the same class BUSN 48 online at our sister college, Las Positas College. Upon completion, fill out the course substitution form and email to Dmitriy Kalyagin at dkalyagin@chabotcollege.edu
  • 2 - Currently, we do not offer BUS 32 Retail Store Management. Please complete the same course online, MKTG 56 Marketing Strategies, at our sister college, Las Positas College. Upon completion, fill out the course substitution form and email to Dmitriy Kalyagin at dkalyagin@chabotcollege.edu

Link to Course Substitution Waiver: 

https://www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling/docs/forms/course%20substitution%20or%20waiver%20of%20program%20requirement.pdf

Total Units: 15 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.