Small Business Administration

Matanuska-Susitna College offers an Associate of Applied Science degree in Small Business Administration. This is a professional program designed to meet the challenges of a dynamic and changing business environment.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Define and demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of contemporary business.
2. Demonstrate the principles of profit in business, issues of social responsibility, and forms of business ownership.
3. Describe roles of management in the specialized fields of human resources, finance, production and marketing.
4. Describe entrepreneurship, the steps in starting a small business, basic management concepts, fundamentals of selling, marketing, financial and
internal controls, and legal/governmental controls.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the supervisor's role and the development of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling.
6. Demonstrate an elementary understanding of business law and the ability to identify and apply elements of contract, tort, agency, and property law.
7. Understand the fundamental concepts underlying the preparation of primary financial statements, financial statement analysis, cash flow planning, capital
assets, budgeting and long term debt financing.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of market planning strategy and marketing concepts to include the nature of marketing and its environment, selecting
target markets and developing a market mix: product, price promotion and distribution.
9. Demonstrate skills to sell themselves, products, services and ideas by using the steps of the selling process, buyer behavior, communication, and the
market mix.

ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
Small Business Administration

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
See Admission to Undergraduate Programs on page 38.

GENERAL UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS
1. Complete the General University Requirements for Associate Degrees listed on page 70.
2. Complete the Associate of Applied Science General Degree Requirements (15 credits). To provide maximum transferability, it is recommended that students consider the Bachelor of Business Administration General Education Requirements and business core requirements (refer to the current UAA Catalog) when selecting courses to fulfill the Associate of Applied Science general requirements.

Oral Communication Skills (3 credits):
COMM A111 Fundamentals of Oral Comm (3)
COMM A235 Small Group Communication (3)
COMM A237 Interpersonal Communication (3)
COMM A241 Public Speaking (3)

Written Communication Skills (6 credits):
ENGL A111 Methods of Written Comm (3)
and one of the following:
CIOS A260A Business Communication (3)
ENGL A211 Academic Writing About Lit (3)
ENGL A212 Technical Writing (3)
ENGL A213 Writing in the Social/Natural Sci (3)
ENGL A214 Persuasive Writing (3)

General Requirements (6 credits):
Choose one or a combination of Humanities*, Math, Natural Sciences, or Social Sciences courses. (See Associate Degree Course Classifications list on page 80.) Courses chosen must be at the 100-level or above.

* Any English course used to satisfy the Humanities general requirement must be different from the written communications requirement and have a course number higher than ENGL A111.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (45 credits):
1. Complete the required support courses (12-16 credits):
ACCT A101 Principles of Financial Accounting I (3)
and ACCT A102 Prin of Financial Acct II (3)
or ACCT A201 Prin of Financial Acct (3)
ACCT A202 Principles of Managerial Accounting (3)
CIS A110 Computer Concepts in Business (3)
MATH A105 Intermediate Algebra (3)
or MATH A107 College Algebra (4)
or MATH A172 Applied Finite Math (3)
Note: MATH A105 will not satisfy the Quantitative Skills General Education
Requirement for the baccalaureate degree.

2. Complete the required BA core courses (21 credits):
BA A151 Introduction to Business (3)
BA A166 Small Business Management (3)
BA A231 Fundamentals of Supervision (3)
BA A233 Fund of Financial Management (3)
BA/JUST A241 Business Law I (3)
BA A260 Marketing Practices (3)
BA A264 Personal Selling (3)

3. Complete 9-12 credits of electives from the following:
BA A131 Personal Finance (3)
BA A232 Fundamentals of Organizational Management (3)
BA/JUST A242 Business Law II (3)
BA A273 Introduction to Statistics for Business/Economics (3)
LGOP A110 Logistics, Information, and Customer Service (3)
LGOP A120 Warehouse and Inventory Control Operations (3)
LGOP A160 Purchasing and Supply Management (3)
or any 300-level business course provided the prerequisites have been met. All ACCT, BA, CIS, ECON, LGOP, and LOG are considered business courses.*

*Students who may decide to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration degree can maximize transferability of their credits by taking MATH A107 or MATH A172, BA A273, and any 300-level business course as long as prerequisites have been completed.

4. A total of 60 credits is required for the degree.

Note: Students planning to go on to a BBA Accounting degree must have a
grade of C or better in all business courses.

2007-2008 MSC Bulletin