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Business Certificates

Basic Business Certificate

Penn State’s basic business certificate provides students with a solid foundation in management, marketing, and written English. It also provides students with a reasonable flexible way to deepen their understanding of management and management-related disciplines. Students who have completed the basic business certificate are eligible to earn the advanced business certificate.

PRESCRIBED COURSES (9-cr)
Students must take all of the following:
ENGL 015: Rhetoric and Composition
MGMT 100: Survey of Management
MKTG 221W: Contemporary American Marketing

ADDITIONAL COURSES (9-cr)
Students must select at least 9-credits:
B A 241: Legal Environ. of Business (2-cr)
B A 242: Social/Ethical Environ. of Business (2-cr)
B A 243: Social/Legal/Ethical Environ. of Business (4-cr)
B A 250: Small Business Management
LER 100: Employment Relations
MIS 103: Microcomputer Applications in Business OR
MIS 204: Intro to Business Information Systems
MKTG 220: Introduction to Selling Techniques

Students should choose B A 241 and 242 or B A 243

Students should choose MIS 103 or MIS 204

Advanced Business Certificate

Penn State’s advanced business certificate can help develop student’s skills in spoken communication and quantification. In a very flexible way, students can explored functional fields of business. Students who complete the advanced business certificate will have completed almost half of the credits required for Penn State Altoona’s Associate Degree in Business (2BAAL).

Only students who have completed all courses required for the basic business certificate are eligible to earn an advanced business certificate. No course may count toward both the basic certificate and the advanced certificate in business.

PRESCRIBED COURSES (6-cr)
Students must take all of the following:
CAS 100A: Effective Speech
MATH 021: College Algebra

ADDITIONAL COURSES (9-cr)
Students must select at least 9-credits:
ACCTG 211: Financial/Managerial Accounting (4-cr)
B A 241: Legal Environ. of Business (2-cr)
B A 242: Social/Ethical Environ. of Business (2-cr)
B A 243: Social/Legal/Ethical Environ. of Business (4-cr)
B A 250: Problems of Small Business
CMPSC 203: Intro to Spreadsheets and Databases (4-cr)
ECON 102: Introductory Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
ECON 104: Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
IST 220: Networking Telecommunications
IST 250: New Media and the Web
LER 100: Labor and Industrial Relations OR
LER 136: Race, Gender, and Employment
MIS 103: Microcomputer Applications in Business OR
MIS 204: Intro to Business Information Systems
MKTG 220: Introduction to Selling Techniques
SRA 111: Intro to Security Risk Analysis
SRA 211: Threat of Terrorism and Crime
SCM 200: Intro to Statistics for Business OR
STAT 200: Elementary Statistics (4-cr)

Students should choose B A 241 and 242 or B A 243.