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Basic behaviors, etiquette, and protocol for successful performance in a professional workplace. Essential skills include effective communication, problem-solving and decision-making, positive attitude, taking initiative, and teamwork and collaboration.

Personal financial planning is critical. Develop financial plans in one's personal life with such things as buying a house and investing and understanding the importance of saving for retirement right away. Includes important introductions to finance topics, like insurance and taxes, and is a useful introduction to finance for those pursuing academic goals in business.

The nature and significance of money and banking in both a historical and contemporary sense with an emphasis on the commercial banking processes, the Federal Reserve, financial institutions other than commercial banks, and international banking.

The fields of risk, risk management, and insurance, including the legal elements of risk and contracts. Designed for any business student who is interested in learning about risk management, legal contracts, and financial risk, as well as those interested in the insurance industry.

Preparation for collaborative forms of interaction and idea generation that allow for innovative solutions using design thinking, a major driver for strategic differentiation and competitive advantage among firms. Explore technology and radical innovation as forces behind the transformation of leading industries and their entrepreneurial value.

A practical and experience-centric approach to entrepreneurship. This practice-based method focuses on nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset and skill set and equips students with tools to bring one�s ideas from concept to launch. The course promotes active learning and engagement with the realities of entrepreneurship, encouraging entrepreneurial thinking beyond just learning the concepts of planning, funding, pitching, and marketing creative ideas.

Fundamental digital image software course including organizing and digitally editing business office images for web page development, and electronic publishing. Instruction and practice repairing exposure problems, creating selections, auto correcting, reframing, retouching, recomposing, and sharing and exporting image files in various file formats.

Introductory course to provide familiarity of the Internet and email. Topics covered includes an introduction to the Internet and email, browser features, navigating the web, cloud computing services, and evaluating websites for clarity, content, and credibility.

Fundamentals of efficient management of electronic files/folders in a business office using a Windows or Mac based operating system. Students create file and folder naming conventions, learn to view and navigate through levels of folders, setup a cloud storage system, and organize folders in removable storage devices.

A self-paced computer software course that supports the attainment of an industry standard certificate as a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) or Intuit QuickBooks Certified User (QBCU). Students will complete real-world simulated projects using Gmetrix and Certiport software in one selected core area: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, MS Outlook, or Intuit QuickBooks.