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This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.
Description: The American business system and basic principles of the free market system. Includes introduction of business concepts, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, economics, accounting and other important business principles.
Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.
Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)
Description: Mathematics of finance, mathematics of trade, payroll, taxes, insurance, elementary statistics. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Math elective. Choose MAT 1120 or any Ohio Transfer 36 math elective. View Ohio Transfer 36 math electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Introduction to fundamental concepts necessary for understanding management, motivation and behavior in organizational settings. Emphasis on planning, organizing, influencing and controlling to continually improve effective management skills.
Description: Use word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software applications to create reports, spreadsheets, databases and presentations for business and other applications.
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements, from prehistory to the seventeenth century.
Notes: Any Arts and Humanities or Natural and Physical Science Elective from the approved Ohio Transfer 36 List. View electives at: https://sinclair.edu/about/offices/provost/articulation-transfer/ohio-transfer-36/
Description: Using audience analysis, a writing process and grammatical and formatting skills in an electronic environment, students write letters and messages for both internal and external business situations; they conduct business research and write and document short, informal research business reports, incorporating graphics and presentation materials.
Prerequisites: Other (Placement Test Score)
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Microeconomic theory including price theory, the theory of the firm, resource demand and wage determination. Also includes public policy toward business, economic inequality, labor, trade, balance of payments and the economics of third-world nations. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Prerequisites: MAT 0050 or MAT 1120
Description: Strategies and techniques for current, as well as prospective, supervisors emphasizing the assessment of skills required, the analysis of situational factors and the development of creative approaches to effective supervision.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Description: The exploration of the use and management of information systems and technology to continually improve organizations by providing efficiencies and effectiveness for operations, customer service, marketing, finance and other critical organizational processes.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Prerequisites: MAN 2150
Term hours subtotal:
9
Description: Basic economic principles with macro sequence. Interrelationship of households, business and government with an examination of Keynesian theory, fiscal policy and monetary policy. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Prerequisites: MAT 0050 or MAT 1120
Description: Marketing strategies and decision making in the context of other business functions. Topics include: research and analysis of markets, environments and competition; market segmentation and selection of target markets; consumer and organizational behavior; planning and integration of product, price, promotion and distribution activities for profit and nonprofit, domestic and global settings.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: MRK 2101 or MRK 2100
Prerequisites: ECO 2180
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: The American legal system as it relates to business transactions, including the judicial system and sources of law, legal procedures, torts, business ethics and social responsibility, contracts, property, employment law, agency, partnerships and corporations.
Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.
Notes: Program elective. Choose COM 2211 or COM 2225
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Survey of financial accounting for non-accounting majors. Accounting concepts, financial statements, internal control, cash, and payroll.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: ACC 1210 or ACC 1100
Description: Introduction through application of Human Resource Management concepts. Emphasis on Strategic Human Resource Management, Workforce Planning and Employment, Human Resource Development, Total Compensation and Rewards, Employee and Labor Relations and Risk Management.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Prerequisites: MAN 2150
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: This course addresses the application of basic principles of negotiation through the introduction and analysis of the negotiation process, case studies and simulations. It focuses on accurately identifying requirements specifications, analyzing proposals and conducting purchasing and contracting negotiations ethically and legally, but is also relevant to compromise and agreement in other business and personal life situations.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Description: Digital marketing is a broad and growing field encompassing any form of marketing that utilizes technology to deliver a message. Students in this course study some of the most popular tactics used by successful businesses today to promote their brand and reach their customers. This information is applied in hands-on activities that expose students to real-world business situations, including developing a digital marketing campaign for a brand.
Notes: Elective: Choose any college level course in the Sinclair catalog (Limited to 2 hours of PED courses) 18 hours total required
Term hours subtotal:
6
Description: Students earn credit toward degree requirements for work learning experience. Students already working may apply to use that experience to meet internship requirements. Students establish learning outcomes and prepare related reports and/or projects each term. Thirty hours per week in the workplace.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: MAN 2270, MAN 2275 or MAN 2279 Department permission is required. Internships must be approved by the Work Based Learning Office. For more information on internships visit: https://www.sinclair.edu/services/graduation-career/work-based-learning/
Prerequisites: Approval of Department
Description: Global dimensions of business, overview of theories and institutions of trade, investment and management, emphasizing the managerial perspective on issues arising from international business and global operations.
Notes: Program elective. Choose from one of the following courses: MAN 1110 or MAN 2110
Term hours subtotal:
6