MCCCD Program Description

Major: 3548 Catalog Year: 2023-2024 Effective Term: 2017 Fall Last Admit Term: 2020 Summer Award: AAS Total Credits: 60-64 CIP Code: 11.0601	Primary College: Initiating College: Chandler-Gilbert Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: College Specific Field of Interest: Computer and Information Technology Instructional Council: Computer Information Systems (12) GPA: 2.00
SOC Code: 43.9021

Description: The Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Business Applications is designed to provide the skills needed for those students who are interested in becoming part of the support system in almost any workplace configuration in a wide variety of business areas. This program prepares students to use common business computer applications for professional and personal computing. Other business skills, including accounting, effective communication, management, marketing, and business law basic principles are integrated in the program. Courses in the program prepare for the Microsoft examinations for certification as a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS).

Suggested Course Plan Sequenced by Semester

Required Courses

ACC111 Accounting Principles I 3
CIS105 Survey of Computer Information Systems 3
CIS113DE Microsoft Word: Word Processing 3
CIS114DE Excel Spreadsheet 3
CIS117DM Microsoft Access: Database Management 3
CIS118DB Desktop Presentation: PowerPoint 3
CIS121AE Windows Operating System: Level I 1
CIS133DA Internet/Web Development Level I 3
CIS224 Project Management Microsoft Project for Windows 3
GBS151 Introduction to Business 3
+GBS233 Business Communication 3

Credits: 31

Restricted Electives
Students choose two (2) 3 credit courses and one (1) 1 or 2 credit course from the following: BPC/OAS111AA Computer Keyboarding I 1 +BPC111AB Computer Keyboarding II 1 +ACC115 Computerized Accounting 2 GBS205 Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues in Business 3 MGT101 Techniques of Supervision 3 MGT175 Business Organization and Management 3 MGT229 Management and Leadership I 3 MGT251 Human Relations in Business 3 MGT253 Owning and Operating a Small Business 3 MKT271 Principles of Marketing 3 CIS102 Interpersonal and Customer Service Skills for IT Professionals 1 CIS290AA Computer Information Systems Internship 1 +CIS213DE Advanced Microsoft Word: Word Processing 3 +CIS214DE Advanced Excel Spreadsheet: Level II 3 +CIS217AM Advanced Microsoft Access: Database Management 3	Credits: 7-8

General Electives
	Credits:

General Education Requirements

General Education Requirement	Credits: 22-25

General Education Core	Credits: 12-15

First-Year Composition	Credits: 6
+ENG101 First-Year Composition (3) OR +ENG107 First-Year Composition for ESL (3) AND +ENG102 First-Year Composition (3) OR +ENG108 First-Year Composition for ESL (3)

Oral Communication	Credits: 3
COM100 Introduction to Human Communication (3) OR +COM230 Small Group Communication (3)

Critical Reading	Credits: 0-3
+CRE101 College Critical Reading and Critical Thinking (3) OR Equivalent as indicated by assessment 0-3

Mathematics	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course from the Mathematics area.

General Education Distribution	Credits: 10

Humanities, Arts and Design	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course from the Humanities and Fine Arts area.

Social-Behavioral Sciences	Credits: 3
ECN211 Macroeconomic Principles (3) OR ECN212 Microeconomic Principles (3) OR SBU200 Society and Business (3)

Natural Sciences	Credits: 4
Any approved general education course from the Natural Sciences area.

Program Competencies
1. Prepare, post, and analyze accounting data for business transactions. (ACC111) 2. Create, modify, graph, link, and store spreadsheets using a computer spreadsheet program for solving business problems. (CIS114DE) 3. Create, modify, store, retrieve, and generate reports of a database and its components using a computer database management program. (CIS117DM) 4. Create, modify, and store professional presentations with visual images, charts, and animations for business purposes using computer presentation software. (CIS118DB) 5. Navigate, manage, operate, and utilize the operating system with icons and menus using Microsoft Windows as an interface. (CIS121AE) 6. Create, format, modify, and store business documents using a computer word processing application. (CIS113DE) 7. Demonstrate a working knowledge of computer information systems, basic computer concepts, programming fundamentals, and using selected business software. (CIS105) 8. Use communication features and advanced features of information search and retrieval tools on the Internet. (CIS133DA) 9. Design and create computer web documents using the World Wide Web authoring hypertext markup language (HTML). (CIS133DA) 10. Identify and describe the economic, marketing, management, and finance activities and characteristics of local, national, and international businesses. (GBS151) 11. Create and analyze internal and external business communications, including various verbal and nonverbal techniques. (GBS233) 12. Understand project management concepts, analyze problem descriptions and design programming solutions to the problems using common problem-solving techniques. (CIS224)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: May 23, 2017

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