Business Administration

Effective: Fall 2022
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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 Business Administration certificate and the AS-T degree are stackable: the Business Administration certificate includes only 5 classes, or 18 units, all of which are also required for the AS-T degree (60 units). The main goal of these programs is to prepare you for transfer as a Business major (any specialization, such as Accounting, Finance, International Business, Marketing, Information Technology Management, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Management, etc.) to a four-year university in the California State University system.

To earn the AS-T in Business Administration, you will have to:

  • complete 60 semester units of CSU degree-applicable courses (the courses are listed in the back)
  • earn a GPA of 2.0 or higher in those courses
  • earn a minimum grade of “C” (or “Pass”) for each course in the major
  • complete the CSU General Education requirements.

What can I do with this major?

Both the certificate and the AS-T degree include classes required to complete the first TWO years of a BA/BS degree in Business. The certificate provides the major (business) classes and the AS-T provides the major plus the general education courses. Earning the AS-T degree prepares you to transfer to any of 23 California State University campuses. If you want to transfer to any of the three University of California campuses offering an undergraduate degree in Business Administration (Berkeley, Irvine, or Riverside), see a counselor, as the transfer pattern is different.

Additionally, you can apply for various jobs to increase your salary, gain business experience, and help you get through a four-year degree.

  • An entry-level job within accounting, marketing, sales, or any business operation units or financial service organizations.
  • Supervisory jobs in retail or business operations.
  • Jobs are available in just about any corporate business and non-profit organization.

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

Prerequisites

BUS 7- (Accounting for Small Business) is not required but strongly recommended before taking BUS 1A Financial Accounting. About 65% of students are successful in completing BUS 1A. After first taking BUS-7, 94% successfully complete BUS 1A.

Semester 1

11 units

BUS 1A
Financial Accounting

4 units
Explores financial accounting, its importance, and how it is used by internal and external users as a decision-making tool. Covers accounting information systems; application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to value assets, liabilities, and equity; preparation, interpretation, and analysis of financial statements. Includes topics on cash flow statement, cash and accrual accounting concepts, merchandising operations, internal controls and ethics, reporting and accounting for receivables, payables, long-term assets and liabilities, inventory, depreciation, stockholders’ equity, stocks, and bonds.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 7

BUS 12
Introduction to Business

3 units
Survey of the private enterprise system and basic business concepts, business economics, types of business ownership, ethics, globalization, and organizational functions (management, marketing, accounting, human resources, and finance). Provides a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to influence an organization's policies and practices within the U.S. and a global environments.
Course Details:

BUS 10
Business Law

4 units
This course introduces the fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions and the business environment. Topics covered include sources of law and the legal process under the federal and state court systems. The course presents a comprehensive study of contracts under the common law and the Uniform Commercial Code, including breach of contract and remedies. The course examines agency and employment law, tort law including intentional, negligence and strict liability torts. Intellectual property, legal structures of business, and criminal law as applied in a business setting are also studied.
Course Details:

Semester 2

7 units

BUS 1B
Managerial Accounting

4 units
Examines how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing, operating, and controlling. Emphasis on cost terms and concepts, cost structure, cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis, profit planning, budgeting, budgetary controls, cost controls, accounting for manufacturing costs and ethics.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: BUS 1A
  • Transfers to CSU

    • Major Elective (Choose one course from the list below)

    3 units

    ECN 1
    Principles of Microeconomics

    3 units
    Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000
    2. Prerequisite: MTH 53
    3. Prerequisite: MTH 53B
  • Transfers to CSU
    • or

    ECN 2
    Principles of Macroeconomics

    3 units
    Economic analysis of the theory of income determination, including national income analysis, business cycles, the consumption function, the multiplier, fiscal policy, monetary policy, money and banking, the public debt, economic growth and development, comparative economic systems and international trade.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000
    2. Prerequisite: MTH 53
      3. or
    3. Prerequisite: MTH 53B
      4. or
  • Transfers to CSU
    • Total Units: 18 units
    This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.