Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
There is a need for technical professionals to broaden their horizons and enhance their skills. This flexible award lets you bundle technical courses with business skills courses so you can enhance your technical training with the most relevant soft skills.
There is a demand for people who have the ability to apply business knowledge in solving problems. To be successful in business a person must have qualities that include the ability to work well with others, the desire to be part of a team, and the ability to work in a rapidly changing environment. Others include critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, questioning, diplomacy, and negotiation, along with good oral and written communication skills.
Award Outcomes
Demonstrate effective business communication skills
Demonstrate interpersonal skills
Demonstrate team building skills
Demonstrate professional business behavior
Solve business problems using critical thinking techniques
Apply marketing concepts and strategies to business decision making
Apply management concepts to business problems
Analyze business problems using financial concepts
Develop solutions to customer service problems
Identify strategies to retain customers
Apply conflict management skills
Career Opportunities
This occupational area includes the following career titles: Business Manager or Business Specialist. Business managers work in every industry including finance, real estate, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, construction, automotive and retail.
Semester Sequence
Offered at Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie
Prerequisite: Qualifying score on Computer Literacy Assessment test
Third Semester
| BUSN1140 | Business Law | 3 |
| BUSN1200 | Business Communication | 3 |
| BUSN2005 | Principles of Marketing | 4 |
| Technical Studies Electives | 5 |
| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 5 | 3 |
| or | |
| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 9 | 3 |
Fourth Semester
| ACCT2155 | Financial Accounting | 4 |
| BUSN1510 | Entrepreneurship and Global Ventures | 3 |
| PHIL1100 | Critical Thinking for College Success | 3 |
| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 4 | 3 |
Technical Studies Electives
Recommended:
Graduation (60 Credits)
This semester sequence is a tool meant for students to discuss their schedule each semester with their faculty advisor. Some courses may be offered only once per year and only on one campus.
Semester listings reflect the recommended sequence. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the information herein is subject to change without notice.
1/15/2025 : BP 2512 / EP 2513