Associate of Applied Business – Business Management
The Associate of Applied Business (AAB) – Business Management is designed to provide students with the skills to prepare them for career growth and success in business management-related fields. The program focuses on applying critical thinking in the process of decision making, problem-solving and leading, facilitating, and contributing to meeting organizational goals. This program is ideal for individuals looking to attain an entry-level or mid-level position in the field of business management.
Career opportunities in the following fields:
- Insurance
- Customer service
- Quality assurance
- Retail supervision
- Hospitality supervision
- Office administration
- Human resources
- Business startup
Job opportunities:
- First-Line Supervisors
- Office & Administrative Support
- Accounting Manager
- Accounts Payable Supervisor
- Accounts Receivable Manager
- Administrative Supervisor
- Customer Service Manager
- Customer Service Supervisor
- Office Coordinator
- Office Manager
- Office Supervisor
- Staff Services Manager
- Starting one’s own business
Industry Certificate:
- Bookkeeper certificate
- Quickbooks
- Google Certs – Shopping Ads
- Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
- Total Quality Management
- MOS certificates
- Business Communication
- Microsoft Certificates
Program Length: 2 years
Total Credits Required: 96
The Associate of Applied Business – Business Management Degree Programs consists of 21 – 4 quarter-hour courses and 4 – 3 quarter-hour courses. The program totals 96 quarter credit hours and 1,308 clock hours. A full-time student can complete this program by taking seven quarters of 3 courses and one-quarter of four courses (or any combination thereof) in any quarter sequence within a 24 month time period.
Students are responsible for purchasing books, supplies, and materials needed in any course. The following is the average list price of program textbooks purchased from Global Tech College’s Bookstore: $3,710.00
The academic catalog provides additional information about the curriculum and courses for this major.
This course provides students with an introduction to accounting and accounting principles. Students will learn how to analyze and adjust transactions and financial statements. Students will gain an understanding of the accounting cycle throughout the fiscal year and will learn various systems used to track inventory. This course will provide knowledge covered on basic bookkeeper’s exams found on such sites as the NACPB
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 54
This course will prepare students for career success with the first-hand experience in calculating payroll, completing payroll taxes, and preparing payroll records and reports. This course will provide knowledge covered on basic payroll accounting exams found on such sites as the NACPB
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will provide a practical approach to law that emphasizes current, relevant topics needed to succeed in contemporary business. Cases throughout the course address issues such as trademark infringement, computer tampering, pollution, agency, and employment‐at‐will.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will use a skills-based approach and apply practical ethical situations to real-world business settings and decisions.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will examine the role the banking system plays in individual financial activities and consider the monetary policymaking that shapes the worlds financial system.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course presents a basic, arithmetic‐based approach to business math. Students will use practical skill-building to prepare students for careers in business through the step‐by‐step development of concepts, numerous practice exercises
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will provide an understanding of the functions of management, decision making, leading, communicating, controlling, planning, human resources, and organizing. Managerial functions are discussed within the framework of contemporary business organization
Credits: 3
Clock Hours: 36
This course will examine the role the banking system plays in individual financial activities and consider the monetary policymaking that shapes the worlds financial system.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will present a streamlined approach to business communication and provides a four-in-one learning package: authoritative text, practical workbook, self-teaching grammar/mechanics handbook, and premium Web site. Information presented in this course may help students earn a Google Shopping Ad certificate (https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/catalog/list?category_ids=2844-google-ads-certifications) and/ or Fundamentals of Digital Marketing (https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/course/digital-marketing)
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will cover the three unifying themes throughout the course are strategy, global supply chain, and service operations. The strategy will serve as an overarching framework and will be used in each chapter to present students with an alternative approach to specific challenges. The global supply chain and service operations themes will allow students to see how products move through different companies and countries.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will approach business operations from the entrepreneurial and management perspective. Finance, marketing, and human resources are some of the topics that will be explored. This course will provide an overview of the management, discusses the history of management, and compares management approaches and philosophies. This course focuses on data analysis and decision‐making, demonstrating the importance of math, statistics, and quantitative decision‐making
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course details how to organize as well as how to manage effective project teams, from planning and scheduling to cost management. Contents of this course will provide the basics which are covered in the PMI exam (https://www.pmi.org/certifications/project-management-pmp)
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
The foundation of this course is on the emergence of Total Quality Management (TQM) as a strategic focus in firms seeking excellence and a competitive edge.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will provide the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources essential for student success now and throughout their management future. This course covers the fundamentals of business management on starting and managing a business.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will introduce and use a skills-based approach and apply practical ethical situations to real-world business settings and decisions
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course is designed to help students develop a practical understanding of today’s human resource management skills, concepts, and principles. Students will learn techniques in interviewing, recruiting, and all other aspects of human resource management. Students will develop an understanding of the application of important laws and regulations.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours: 36
This course teaches the basic models of macroeconomics. It allows students to understand US and foreign economies. It provides an overview of the effect of subjects such as unemployment, interest rates, and inflation on the economy. Other areas of interest such as public debt and social security will be explored.
Credits: 3
Clock Hours: 36
This course introduces the fundamentals of microeconomics such as supply and demand, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Office 2019 and will learn how to take advantage of the flexibility it offers. Students will learn to use various programs to accomplish tasks such as organization, data analysis, advertising, cloud computing, and publishing. The contents of this course will help prepare students to sit for MOS exams (https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/Microsoft/MOS/Certify/Office-365-and-Office-2019.aspx)
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 54
This course equips students with knowledge about how to use advanced features of Microsoft Office 2019 to accomplish tasks such as presentations, organization, budgeting, data analysis, cloud computing, and publishing. The contents of this course will help prepare students to sit for MOS exams (https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/Microsoft/MOS/Certify/Office-365-and-Office-2019.aspx)
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 54
This course will introduce students to public speaking concepts and applications
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course offers a practical approach to law that emphasizes current, relevant topics needed to succeed in contemporary business. Cases throughout the course address issues such as trademark infringement, computer tampering, pollution, agency, and employment-at-will.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course continues to focus on two related goals: to help students (1) gain confidence and proficiency in academic writing situations and, (2) to continue to develop useful life‐long writing skills. Specifically, this course may help students learn common academic writing strategies, make appropriate rhetorical choices, based on purpose and intended audience and improve critical thinking skills.
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
This course introduces the history of western civilization. The course will allow students to analyze the significant milestones in a western civilization about cultural, social, and economic development
Credits: 4
Clock Hours: 48
GTC was my first venture back into higher education since getting out of the military, and they have not only been extremely helpful as an education institution, but I have received more support from them than any physical campus I have ever attended. If you are unsure about school, GTC will make sure it goes as smoothly as possible for you to pursue schooling, and help you succeed and prepare you for many of the industry standards for higher education.
