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- The course helps you identify information-bearing events, assess and improve process efficiency, learn to model and analyze business processes, recognize probabilistic components of business processes, and understand the interactions between human behavior and process design. Hands-on, case-based course work allows you to practice some of the principles addressed. You will demonstrate the ability to utilize business computer applications. Course Outcomes: Conceptualize business operations as processes. 1. Model simple business processes in terms of the actors and activity sequences involved, the data flowing through those sequences and the dependencies between data and business activities. 2. Recognize probabilistic components of business processes and assign distributions to these components. 3. Characterize business processes in terms of their key operations characteristics; e.g.,productivity, efficiency, service quality, sustainability, time and costs associated with waiting, material volume and service/product customization. 4. Formulate improvements to observed processes and estimate the effects of these improvements with the help of simulation. 5. Identify the role of information systems in business processes; e.g., recognize and specify where information technology can be applied; recognize the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. 6. Recognize the interdependence of business processes within and across organizational boundaries.
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- An analysis of the behavior of humans as actors in a variety or organizational contexts and cultures, including group, inter-group, and individual behavior. A cross cultural perspective of organizational behavior is also examined, including the concepts of time-management, work ethic, teamwork, and verbal and non-verbal communication. Course Outcomes: 1. Describe why managers and entrepreneurs require a knowledge of organizational behavior. 2. Describe characteristics of culture and resulting behavioral tendencies (especially as related to communication, teamwork and leadership, and conflict resolution). 3. Explain the foundations of individual behavior in diverse organizational and cultural settings. 4. Explain the foundations of group behavior in diverse organizational and cultural settings. 5. Discuss inter-group behavior. 6. Identify the rules of organizational design. 7. Describe organizational culture.
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- Public Relations
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course presents statistical analysis and quantitative tools for applied problem solving and making sound business decisions. Special attention is given to assembling statistical description, sampling, inference, regression, hypothesis testing, forecasting, and decision theory. Course Outcomes: 1. Understand the meaning and use of statistical terms used in today’s business/economic environment. 2. Collect, organize, summarize, interpret, and present data in tables and charts. 3. Apply descriptive statistical measures to data. 4. Apply probability distributions to model various business and economic processes. 5. Apply statistical inference techniques (including statistical estimation and hypothesis testing) in various business and economic situations. 6. Apply simple linear regression analysis to model various business and economic relationships.
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- Marketing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course focuses on the entrepreneurial phases associated with start-up and management of small business. This course will teach future entrepreneurs and managers to recognize opportunities and to use effective entrepreneurial and small business management practices. Course Outcomes: 1. List and discuss the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. 2. Analyze new business opportunities that exist in the marketplace. 3. Evaluate the feasibility of pursuing an opportunity that you’ve recognized. 4. Develop a business plan that includes both conceptual and technical components. 5. Identify and discuss obstacles to entrepreneurial success. 6. Identify the resources and financing necessary to start an entrepreneurial venture. 7. Discuss organizational characteristics and best management practices for start-up companies.
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This is a survey course of discrete mathematics for non-physical science majors. Topics include systems of inequalities, linear programming, probability and probability distributions, and an introduction to descriptive statistics. The course emphasizes problem solving through the use of computer spreadsheets. Course Outcomes: 1. Identify and solve linear programming problems. 2. Write and analyze algebraic models for business and other applications. 3. Solve business and biological applications using probability distributions.
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- Calculus
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- Math of Biological/Management/Social Sciences presents intuitive development of the calculus of polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions, and extrema theory and applications. Course Outcomes: 1. Apply calculus to solve problems with confidence, persistence, and openness to alternate approaches. 2. Interpret and communicate the concepts of rates of change and derivatives. 3. Connect the graphical behavior, numerical patterns and symbolic representations of function and derivatives. 4. Collaborate to solve calculus problems related to their field of study. 5. Recognize when and how to proficiently apply calculus tools to solve problems in business management, social sciences and and biological sciences. 6. Use a graphing calculator and/or other technology to solve applied problems.
- Subject:
- Calculus
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course provides hands-on computer experience in accounting applications, including general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and financial statements. Course Outcomes: 1. Create a new company within the QuickBooks Environment 2. Enter a new account. 3. Demonstrate the ability to properly enter transactions into the A/R, A/P, and other functional areas of the program. 4. Properly run reconciliation reports or bank accounts. 5. Customize and print out financial statements.
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- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course introduces students to the types of writing they will encounter in business, industry, the academic world and government. It examines the rhetorical nature of writing and asks students to think critically about content, audience, argument and structure. Students will learn how to effectively design documents, present instructions, create proposals and produce technical reports. Course Outcomes: 1. Analyze the rhetorical needs (the needs of the audience in relationship to the assignment) for college-level evidence-based technical writing assignments. 2. Apply appropriate levels of critical thinking strategies (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) in their written assignments, with an emphasis on technical, evidence-based analysis, reporting, application, and evaluation. 3. Implement appropriate rhetorical elements and organization (executive summary, introduction, thesis, development and research-based support, visual evidence, conclusion, etc.) in their written assignments, with an emphasis on technical evidence-based analysis, reporting, and evaluation assignments. 4. Locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality information and opinion appropriate for technical evidence-based assignments. 5. Craft sentences and paragraphs that communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using words, sentence patterns, and writing conventions at a high college level to make their writing clear, credible, and precise.
- Subject:
- Ratios and Proportions
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces the framework of the law as it affects a business, including the origins of the American legal system, how the law operates, and how it is enforced. It covers legal regulation of business, including civil and criminal law, formation of contracts, employment law, environmental regulation, real estate, and consumer rights. Course Outcomes: 1. Explain the origins of the American legal system. 2. Apply elements of law to specific individual and business scenarios. 3. Understand the requirements for a valid contract and apply those requirements to specific contractual activities. 4. Recognize the interconnectedness of the legal system to business, society, and the environment. 5. Explain the impact of the uniform commercial code, UCC, on the business environment.
- Subject:
- Law
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course explores the basics of human resource management including selection and hiring, performance appraisal, compensation, staff planning and job analysis. This course also addresses current HR issues such as job search in a difficult economy, discrimination and harassment, workplace violence and on-the-job drug abuse. Course Outcomes: 1. Upon completion of the course, students will have working knowledge of the role and human resources in the management of a business organization. 2. Students will understand the basic functions of human resource management and how the HR department interacts with the organization and with the individual employee.
- Subject:
- Management
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course will provide you with a general survey of the nature significance of scope of marketing. It emphasizes customers (marketing analysis and strategy); business marketing decisions in promotion, distribution and pricing; and control of marketing programs. Course Outcomes: 1. Employ the basics of marketing, from identifying audience, market segments and value propositions, to product development and research, marketing strategies and advertising/public relations. 2. Recognize consumer behavior and demand and be able to prepare and execute a marketing solution. 3. Master business marketing tools necessary to execute a marketing plan for a client, including social media. 4. Identify trends and new developments in business and employ soft skills and marketing techniques to adapt to market demands. 5. Compile a portfolio of work that can be shared with colleagues, network connections and future clients and employers.
- Subject:
- Marketing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course covers topics dealing with financing a business, analysis of financial statements, working capital management, short-and long-term financial planning, budgeting and control. Course Outcomes: 1. Describe and interpret the four standard financial statements. 2. Describe the importance of current assets and liabilities. 3. Calculate and interpret standard business ratios including: current, inventory turnover, gross margin (profit), ROA, ROE, EPS, and A/R Days. 4. Discuss the difference between markup and margin. 5. Calculate break-even points and units needed to make profit levels. 6. Calculate working capital and estimate minimum cash reserves. 7. Track cash flows for an organization.
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course introduces financial accounting techniques, measuring and recording transactions, preparing financial statements, managerial decision making, and planning and control devices, such as budgeting, cost accounting, variance analysis, and break-even analysis. Includes assessment of financial information from managers, lenders, and investors perspective to understand and evaluate business operations. Emphasizes ethical decision-making in the work environment. Course Outcomes: 1. Gain understanding of the accounting cycle and evaluate business transactions using the accounting equation. 2. Demonstrate the communication of accounting information by the use of commercially available spreadsheet software. 3. Describe the four basic financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows, and Statement of Retained Earnings. 4. Describe the need for internal control procedures in an organization, and demonstrate an understanding of ethics in accounting. 5. Use Cost-Profit-Volume analysis to calculate break-even points. 6. Describe the purpose of budgeting in an organization. 7. Calculate cost and efficiency variances using standard cost information.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course demonstrates the use of accounting information to meet organization goals. Methods of extracting accounting information for decision making, management of resources, planning, and product and service costing are covered. Course Outcomes: 1. Explain the interrelationship of the accounting systems to all areas of business and business decision making. 2. Understand cost behavior and predict break-even points. 3. Recognize the components and processes related to various cost accounting systems. 4. Analyze the performance of the organization and organizational sub-units. 5. Use the budgeting process to prepare budgets and pro forma financial statements. 6. Utilize the time-value-of-money concept to analyze capital investment projects.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Presents financial accounting concepts and the use of accounting information in decision making. Includes an overview of the accounting cycle. Course Outcomes: 1. Use the accounting cycle to develop financial statements from business transactions. 2. Analyze basic business economic events to determine their effect on accounts and financial statements. 3. Interpret and analyze financial statements to aid in decision making. 4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the principles of internal control and apply them to relatively straight-forward situations to identify strengths and weaknesses. 5. Interpret and analyze accrual and cash flow information presented in accounts. 6. Analyze issues relating to inventory, receivables, long-lived assets, liabilities and stockholder’s equity and recommend appropriate accounting treatment. 7. Describe basic generally-accepted accounting principles.
- Subject:
- Accounting
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces the determination of levels of national income, employment and prices, and the basic causes of fluctuations in the business cycle, the banking system, monetary policy and financial intermediation. Other topics may include international trade and international finance. Course Outcomes: 1. Discuss the role scarcity plays in defining economic choices and how individuals, companies and nations resolve these issues. 2. Describe and use economic data to evaluate the three basic macroeconomic problems: recession, unemployment, and inflation. 3. Discuss and apply the concepts of economic growth and business cycles to the macro economy. 4. Demonstrate how Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Real GDP are calculated and explain the uses and limits of both. 5. Discuss and apply the aggregate-demand and aggregate-supply model to analyze short run and long run national economic conditions and the effectiveness of macroeconomic policy. 6. Apply the concepts of comparative and absolute advantage to explain the benefits of trade.
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course introduces the theory of relative prices in a market system, consumer choice, marginal analysis, and the allocation of productive resources among alternative uses in a market economy. Other topics may include market power and price discrimination, public finance, the labor market and environmental policy. Course Outcomes: 1. Discuss the role scarcity plays in defining economic choices and how individuals, companies and nations resolve these issues. 2. Describe and apply marginal principle, principle of opportunity cost, principle of diminishing returns, comparative advantage, and elasticity. 3. Analyze the relationships between production costs and cost curves. 4. Explain the mechanics of supply and demand and apply the supply and demand model to evaluate markets. 5. Discuss the efficiency and equity of both competitive and noncompetitive markets and how both are impacted by government intervention. 6. Explain, compare and contrast, and apply in context each of the basic market structures - i.e. perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition.
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- Economics
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course is an introduction to families with application to personal life. It focuses on diversity in family structure, social class, race, gender, work, and its interaction with other social institutions. Course Outcomes: 1. Use theoretical frameworks to interpret the role of the family within social process and institutions. 2. Describe the nature, value, and limitations of the basic methods of studying individuals and families. 3. Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in inequity. 4. Explain how difference is socially constructed. 5. Analyze current social issues, including the impact of historical and environmental influences, on family development. 6. Analyze ways in which the intersections of social categories such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, interact with the country’s institutions to contribute to difference, power, and discrimination amongst families. 7. Synthesize multiple viewpoints and sources of evidence to generate reasonable conclusions.
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- Sociology
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- Description:
- This course provides an overview of the United States from pre-Columbian North American and European antecedents to colonization, Colonial America, Revolutionary America; development of U.S. government, economy, and society to 1840. Course Outcomes: 1. Articulate an understanding of key historical events from pre-Columbian North America and European antecedents to colonization, the development of slavery, Native American history, Colonial America, Revolutionary America and the development of U.S. government, economy, and society to 1840. 2. Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues. 3. Construct an historical argument integrating both primary documents and secondary sources.
- Subject:
- U.S. History
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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- This course prepares the student to function in the administrative outpatient setting. Course Outcomes: 1. Operate EMR systems 2. Effectively communicate in a professional environment 3. Work effectively in a medical office environment 4. Perform basic medical office accounting.
- Subject:
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Creator:
- Linn Benton Virtual College
- Resource Type:
- Full Course
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