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This course is an introduction to business analytics, and it is ideal for students who do not have a background in data analytics and would like to know how to apply data driven analytics to make business decisions. A student will learn data analysis skills and tools that will help in any business area such as sales, marketing, operations, and management. This course will emphasize manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data with the end goal of making better business decisions.

• Prerequisite: Math 31.

This course provides students with the tools to achieve their personal financial goals. It will help them make informed decisions related to spending, saving, borrowing, and investing by training them to apply quantitative reasoning concepts to solve problems. Topics covered include personal financial planning; money management; tax strategy; consumer credit; purchasing decisions; insurance; investing in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; retirement; and estate planning.

Business 45 is the same class as Accounting 45. Students may earn credit for one, but not for both.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course provides a comprehensive view of securities, markets, and investment techniques, ranging from simple investment programs to advanced speculative market techniques.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course provides students with the fundamental tools to make informed decisions that impact their short and intermediate-term finances. Topics covered include money management and the decision processes and behaviors underlying spending, saving, and borrowing.

Business 47 is the same course as Counseling 47. Students may earn credit for one but not both.

C-ID: BUS 120 and BUS 125.

• Prerequisite: None.

*Maximum UC credit allowed for ACCTG 26, BUS 5, BUS 6 is one course (3 units).

This course provides students with an overview of the fundamental legal principles pertaining to business transactions and related topics. It also encompasses introductory subjects concerning the U.S. legal system such as the court structure, sources of law, legal reasoning and case analysis. To give students a broad perspective on the various laws and areas impacting business, the following topics are also explored: criminal law, torts, civil procedure, administrative processes, contract law, ethics, constitutional law, agency and the legal principles pertaining to business entities.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course focuses on general business problems, theories, techniques and strategies necessary in the development of business activities in the global market place. The course is designed to promote an understanding of the impact that a country’s culture and its political and economic environments have on a firm’s international operations. The course covers the global perspective of business fundamentals as they relate to international management, communication, marketing, finance, ethics, etc.

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.

This course is designed to heighten awareness of culture and its impact on successful business enterprises. The student will develop skills to identify areas where culture and business intersect by focusing on four subsets of American culture (European Americans, Chicano/Latinos, African Americans and Asian Americans) as well as on international cultures. Emphasis will be placed on how a firm’s success is affected by both domestic and global issues influencing intercultural communication.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course focuses on marketing management problems, techniques and strategies necessary to incorporate the marketing concept into the framework of the world marketplace. This course is designed to promote an understanding of the impact that a country’s culture and environment have on the marketing mix as well as the problems of competing in markets having different cultures.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course presents an overview of importing and exporting as drivers of globalization. It is designed to help students explore the benefits, costs, and risks of importing and exporting as well as the trade regulations involved, the documentation and licensing required, and the public and private sources of financing and other assistance available. It stresses cross-cultural comparisons of foreign business, legal and political practices, trade patterns, and markets as a means of implementing successful import/export plans. Currency exchange, sources and methods of market research, terms of payment, broker services, insurance, letters of credit, transportation and barriers to entry will also be covered.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course focuses on issues faced in international management. Techniques and strategies for leading business activities in the world marketplace are examined. The course is designed to promote an understanding of global trends and the decision-making process involved in all aspects of the multinational organization, such as planning, organizing, and human resource management.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course provides an overview of Southern California’s economy, its people, and its emerging role in the ocean economy. Using a variety of tools, students will be introduced to the vital commercial, financial, and personal connections that make Southern California one of the most diverse and globally connected places in the world. Special attention is devoted to key ocean economy regional engagement opportunities and to enlighten students on how the Blue/Ocean economy (“sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of ocean ecosystem.”) is shaping the future of local, state, and global economies.

• Prerequisite: None.

The entertainment industry is rapidly and continuously shifting and evolving, with digital technology serving as the catalyst for its change. This new paradigm requires that our understanding of the industry and its operations evolve along with it. This introductory course will examine the current and future trends that drive the industry, and the changing business models and associated roles for creatives and executives within the business of entertainment.

This course provides a broad overview of key legal issues that arise in the business of entertainment, namely in television, film, music, and new media. Topics covered include dealmaking, protections for entertainment professionals, acquisition of property rights and portrayal rights, distribution, copyrights, trademarks, defamation, and the right to privacy. The course also explores the legal relationships among talent, agents, managers, and attorneys. Sample contracts and standard agreements are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on identifying strategies that entertainment professionals can employ to minimize the risk of legal conflict.

This course introduces the basic concepts of performance improvement methods. Students will learn about Lean Six-Sigma and Human Centered Design (HCD) methodologies. Lean Six-Sigma is a method that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste, quality management and reducing variation. This course will cover these concepts as they apply to different industries. Students will have the option to earn a Lean Six-Sigma Yellow Belt Certification upon completing the course and passing the exam, if they choose to.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course introduces students to the problem-solving and innovation methodology called design thinking, using an approach called “Design for Delight” that was developed at Intuit. Design for Delight (D4D) uses deep customer empathy, strategic brainstorming and idea selection methods, and rapid experiments with customers to build products and solutions that create value for businesses and stakeholders, and ultimately improve people’s lives. Emphasis will be placed on experiential learning, with students learning and practicing specific behaviors and skills that enable entrepreneurs to creatively solve customer and business problems in all types of organizations including for-profit, non-profit, healthcare and education.

• Prerequisite: None.

*Maximum UC credit allowed for ACCTG 26, BUS 5, BUS 6 is one course (3 units). Formerly same course as ACCTG 26.

This course covers advanced topics in agency, partnerships, corporations, LLCs, torts, legal procedures, and other advanced topics.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course introduces students to the decision making process called Design Thinking. Design Thinking emphasizes deep user understanding, intentional iteration and a focus on possibilities as a way to improve people’s lives and enhance and create value for stakeholders. Design Thinking draws on methods from engineering and design and combines them with ideas from the arts, social services and the business world. Emphasis will be placed on experiential learning, identifying specific behaviors and skills that enable design thinkers to meet customer demands in all types of organizations including for-profits, non-profits, healthcare, arts and education.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course provides concrete guidance in using human relations skills in the workplace that will promote working effectively with others. Strategies are integrated throughout the course that will enable students to apply human relations theories and applications to the real world of work. Ethical issues in business are addressed where students will learn an explicit process of ethical reasoning that will aid in defining and dealing with dilemmas in the workplace. Current events and case studies will be used to develop critical skills as students apply theories and principles.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course covers the fundamentals of how to organize, finance, and operate a small business. Topics to be covered include business plan development, financing, legal and ethical issues, marketing, entrepreneurial team development, and business models.

To be successful and competitive in an ever-changing business environment, individuals must be proficient in business etiquette, protocol and professionalism. Through lectures, role-playing and participation, students will become proficient in the basics of business professionalism and interaction. Appropriate proper business protocol/professionalism is a fundamental requirement for all jobs. These skills will set you apart from the competition and position your career in the right direction for growth and opportunity.