Associate of Arts in Business Administration (AA)
With advances in modern technology, today's marketplace is becoming more and more global. Companies that once confined their work to a local market are now doing business with suppliers and customers around the world. To remain competitive, these companies are increasingly turning to workers with relevant knowledge, experience and training in Business Administration practices.
The Associate of Arts in Business Administration degree program is designed to provide students with the experience and education necessary for careers in national as well as international organizations. The program is distinguished by its emphasis on business in an international context; yet it is unmistakably American.
Challenging, Relevant Coursework
The Associate of Arts in Business Administration features industry-relevant coursework taught by faculty members with real-world experience in the field. The technology-enriched curriculum is designed to enhance students' written communication and oral presentation skills. Some of the key topics covered in the program include financial accounting, leadership and management, ethics, business law, economics, and organizational behavior.
Students who successfully complete the program should be able to:
- Demonstrate a basic level of understanding of the relationships between organizations and the environment in which they function.
- Describe the manners in which organizations' internal process, purposes, structures governance, operations and management come together in a unique ways to create and sustain organizational cultures.
- Demonstrate basic knowledge and understanding in the following
- Markets and Customers: The development and operation of markets for resources, goods and services; customer expectations, service and orientation.
- Finance: The sources, uses and management of finance; the use of accounting and other information systems for managerial applications.
- People: The management and development of people within organizations.
- Operations: The management of resources and operations.
- Information Systems: The development, management and exploitation of information systems and their impact upon organizations.
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