COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
COURSE SYLLABUS
BUS-101 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS
BY
Frank R. Amado, Professor, Cheyenne Office No. 1081, Phone 651-4191
Office hours: One hour before each class or by appointment
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
"Designed to build a business foundation and to give students a broad background of
modern business principles. Course will introduce students to the business profession by
incorporating and integrating business knowledge and information across departmental
curriculum lines to enhance the overall comprehension of the business world. Class
projects are assigned to promote team work among students to use their own capabilities
in utilization of all educational aspects to build comprehensive and extensive business plans.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
PART ONE: BUSINESS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
1. Business: Blending People, Technology, and Ethical Behavior
2. Achieving Business Success by Demonstrating Ethical Behavior & Social Responsibility
3. Economic Challenges Facing Global and Domestic Business
4. Competing in Global Business
PART TWO: STARTING AND GROWING YOUR BUSINESS
5. Options for Organizing Small and Large Businesses
6. Starting your own business: The Entrepreneurship Alternative
7 Electronic Commerce: The Internet & On-Line Business
PART THREE: MANAGEMENT: EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE BUSINESS
OBJECTIVES
8. Management, Leadership, and the Internal Organization
9. Human Resource Management and Motivation
10. Improving Performance through Empowerment, Teamwork, and Communication
11. Labor-Management Relations
12. Creating and Producing World-Class Goods & Services
PART FOUR: MARKETING MANAGEMENT
13. Customer-Driven Marketing
14. Developing and Pricing Goods and Services
15. Distributing Goods and Services
16. Promoting Goods & Services Using Integrated Marketing Communications
PART FIVE: MANAGING TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION
17. Using Technology and the Internet to Succeed in Business
18. Using Technology to Manage Information
19. Understanding Accounting and Financial Statements
PART SIX: MANAGING FINANCIAL RESOURCES
20. Financial Management & Institutions
21. Financing and Investing through Securities Markets
PAGE TWO: INTRO TO BUSINESS
LEARNING MATERIALS: Textbook, CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS,
by Boone & Kurtz, Latest Edition
ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance is highly recommended as your professor is
highly eclectic in his presentations, ie, he draws on 48 years in the field of business
and real estate and the textbook is only one source of course material. After every
lecture a quiz is given covering important points of instruction; these are worth 10,15,
or 20 points based on answer completeness. Since they are added to test points, daily
quizzes are critical to passing the course.
EVALUATION:
1. To take and pass the semester and final exams.
2. To take a daily quiz which covers important points in the lecture..
3. To do special reports as they may be assigned.
4. NO CREDIT IS GIVEN AFTER FIVE ABSENCES; however, if circumstances
warrant, an INCOMPLETE will be given and the student may complete the course
in a succeeding semester.
GRADING SCALE:
All projects, activities, attendance, and tests will be assigned points. The final grade
will reflect the students' position to the total range of class scores, not the total possible;
this is called "grading on the curve". GRADES WILL NOT CARRY A PLUS OR A MINUS.
KEY DATES, FALL SEMESTER OF 2002:
*Consult Fall Catalogue
If you have a documented disability that may require assistance, you need to contact
the Disability Resource Center located in the Student Service Center on each campus.
Cheyenne-651-4700; Henderson-651-3086; West Charleston-651-5089.