Bunker Hill Community College

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPTION - 2009
Business Administration Degree Programs
(Associate in Science Degrees):

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Overview

Program ID - AS.BAENT

The Business Administration Department offers seven academic programs, placing graduates in a competitive position when seeking employment or transferring to four-year academic institutions. Students qualify for entry-level positions within their areas of concentration.

This option allows individuals to learn entrepreneurial skills and build on their own capabilities while earning a college degree. Students will be able to transfer credit for courses to four-year colleges with entrepreneurial programs. Students learn business skills that could be combined with their specialized skills to create opportunities for self-employment or for career advancement and career mobility.

Career Outlook:
This option prepares graduates to start and manage a small business, and to move into management and supervisory positions.

Upon completetion of this option graduates will be able to:

• Analyze viability of opportunities from various points of view.
• Understand the leadership skills and personal characteristics needed for success in starting and managing a small business.
• Develop and implement a business plan.
• Prepare a set of financial statements for a service, merchandising or manufacturing business that is structured as a sole proprietorship, partnership or a corporation.
• Analyze a set of financial statements to determine strengths or weaknesses of the business.
• Understand the basic principles of business law, contracts and agency, intellectual property and product liability.
• Demonstrate proficiency in computer applications as required to operate and manage a small business.
• Examine management theory and practice, and explain basic business methodology and management issues.
• Be able to identify and analyze the marketing strategies of an organization that can be used to advance its mission.
• Understand the techniques useful in achieving the full potential from limited resources and improving productivity and effectiveness.

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