NWCCD Catalog 2025-2026 
  
    Oct 18, 2025  
NWCCD Catalog 2025-2026

Business AAS


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The Business AAS prepares students with the essential skills, work habits, and knowledge they need to pursue employment in the field of business. The program exposes students to key subject areas of business to develop skills in accounting, management, business behavior and ethics, management, and project management. 

Program Outcomes:

  1. Examine financial statements and operating results to make informed business decisions.

  2. Examine the management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling and how they relate to business operations.

  3. Analyze the ways an information system affects an organization’s competitive advantage.

  4. Describe basic ethical practices in business.

  5. Analyze the basic features of domestic and international economic systems.

  6. Communicate using written, oral, and visual communications skills.

This program may be offered online.

*Students interested in the Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Management and Leadership should be advised to take MATH 1000 Problem Solving or higher, advanced writing (AW), or ECON/AGEC 1010 Macroeconomics or ECON/AGEC 1020 Microeconomics as general education options. (If a student is considering transfer to university or college for advanced studies, MATH 1500 is a career technical course, and is not transferrable). 

Required Course of Study:

Freshman Year


 

Sophomore Year


 

Total Credit Hours: 60


Concentrations


Students will select 3 courses from one of the approved areas of concentration to fulfill thier elective requirements:

Accounting: ACCT 2110, ACCT 2230, ACCT 2420, ACCT 2430, ACCT 2431, OR ACCT 2432

OR

Entrepreneurship: ENTR 1450, ENTR 1500, ENTR 2000, BADM 2105, MGT 1490, or MKT 1000

OR 

Management: MGT 1200, MGT 1490, MGT 2490, BADM 2105, FIN 2100, BUSN 2000, DSCI 1100, DSCI 1150, DSCI 1200, DSCI 1250, DSCI 1350, or DSCI 2000

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