Undergraduate Certificate - Essential Business Practices
The Essential Business Practices Certificate is designed to equip students with foundational knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage in a variety of business practices. Key business practices and applications in personal financial management, business communications, management, software applications, and accounting functions will be addressed. Concepts and applications presented will integrate a biblical and ethical framework to guide students in business and personal decision-making processes. The certificate serves as a stackable credential that not only helps prepare learners for gainful employment but provides a pathway to the associate degree.
Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Apply financial concepts to personal money management.
- Demonstrate foundational business communication skills.
- Apply business management principles to real-life business scenarios.
- Utilize software applications to manage business transactions and functions.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform basic accounting functions.
- Utilize entrepreneurship principles to create a strategic plan for launching a small business enterprise.
- Integrate a biblical and ethical framework that guides business and personal decision-making.
Admission Requirements
- Proof of standard high school diploma, GED certification, or country equivalent.
Completion Requirements
- Complete the 18 credit hours with a grade of at least a “C” in each course.
- Payment of all tuition and fees is required to receive certificate.
Undergraduate Certificate Essential Business Practices - Program of Study
Certificate Courses
Courses must be completed with a grade of "C" or higher.
Required Courses
| GEN-111 | Foundations of Lifelong Learning | 3 |
| BUS-105 | Fundamentals of Contemporary Business | 3 |
| MGT-215 | Introduction to Business Management | 3 |
| BUS-150 | Personal Finance | 3 |
| UNV-120 | Career Development | 3 |
Elective Course
Choose one course
| ACC-203 | Introduction to Accounting | 3 |
| BIS-225 | Microsoft Office Applications | 3 |
| BUS-301 | Principles of Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
