Business Administration 2.0

Effective: Fall 2025
Associate in Science for Transfer 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.

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  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.


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

Semester 1

14 units

*BUS 7- Accounting for Small Business *

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.

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:

ENGL 1- Critical Reading and Composition

4 units
GE

General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

3 units
GE
  • * - BUS 7 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 2

18 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

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

    • Statistics course (Choose one)

    4 units
    GE
    BUS 19 recommended

    BUS 19
    Business Statistics

    4 units
    GE
    Introduction to concepts, methods and models employed in reasoning with numbers and in presenting cogent statistical arguments or solutions in the business field. Key topics include estimating confidence intervals, hypotheses testing, development of projections for inferential purposes in the business field, probability distributions (poisson, binomial, normal, student-t, chi-sq, F-distribution), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), estimating simple and multiple regressions.
    Course Details:
    1. Prerequisite: MTH 53
    2. Prerequisite: MTH 55
  • Transfers to CSU

    • STAT C1000
    Introduction to Statistics

    4 units
    GE
    This course is an introduction to statistical thinking and processes, including methods and concepts for discovery and decision-making using data. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi-squared, and t-tests; and application of technology for statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of the statistical findings. Students apply methods and processes to applications using data from a broad range of disciplines. Descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion; elements of probability; tests of statistical hypotheses (one and two populations); correlation and regression; ANOVA; applications in various fields. Introduction to the use of computer software package to complete both descriptive and inferential statistics problems. Formerly MTH 43. May not receive credit if Mathematics 35 has been completed.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000
    2. Strongly Recommended: MTH 53
    3. Strongly Recommended: MTH 55
  • Transfers to UC/CSU

    • PSY 5
    Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    4 units
    GE
    Statistics as applied to the behavioral and social sciences. Applications using data from disciplines including psychology, social sciences, business, life science, health science, and education. The use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate decision-making. Topics include: descriptive and inferential statistics; probability and sampling distributions; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance (ANOVA), chi-square and t-tests; and application of technology for statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of the statistical findings.
    Course Details:
    1. Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000
    2. Prerequisite: MTH 53
      3. or
    3. Prerequisite: MTH 55
      4. or
    4. Prerequisite: MTH 53B
      5. or
  • Transfers to CSU

    • General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    4 units
    GE

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE

    Semester 3

    16-18 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

    • 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

    • Math Course: Prerequisite for Calculus/Applied Calculus- see a counselor to determine the appropriate course *

    3-5 units

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE
    • * - Not a program requirement but a prerequisite for MTH 15 Applied Calculus or MTH 1, which is a program requirement

    Semester 4

    12-14 units

    Calculus or Finite Math- Choose one (see counselor for transfer recommendations)

    3-5 units

    MTH 15
    Applied Calculus I

    3 units
    Differential calculus of algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions; introduction to integral calculus. Applications in business, economics and the life and social sciences.
    or

    MTH 1
    Calculus I

    5 units
    This course is the first in the three-course calculus sequence intended for majors in math, engineering, and physical sciences. The course covers elements of analytic geometry, derivatives, limits and continuity, differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric functions, and the definite integral. Application to the sciences are also covered.
    Course Details:
    1. Prerequisite: MTH 20
    2. Prerequisite: MTH 22
    3. Prerequisite: MTH 21
    4. Prerequisite: MTH 31
    5. Prerequisite: MTH 31S
    6. Prerequisite: MTH 36
    7. Prerequisite: MTH 36S
    8. Prerequisite: MTH 37
  • Transfers to UC/CSU
    • or

    MTH 33
    Finite Mathematics

    4 units
    Straight lines, systems of linear equations, matrices, systems of linear inequalities, linear programming, mathematics of finance, sets and Venn diagrams, combinatorial techniques and an introduction to probability. Applications in business, economics and the social sciences.

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE

    General Education Course: see a counselor to choose an appropriate course

    3 units
    GE
    Total Units: 60-64 units
    This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.