- Community of interest
- Business, Cosmetology, Arts & Design
- Award
- Certificate of Achievement
- Program code
- 01317.01CA
- Department
- Business Admin/Mgmt
- CIP code
- 52.0212: Retail Management.
- TOP code
- 0506.50 - Retail Store Operations and Management*
Program detailsAward, code, department, CIP/TOP
Program Snapshot
- Community of interest
- BCAD Business, Cosmetology, Arts & Design
- Award
- Certificate of Achievement
- Program code
- 01317.01CA
- Department
- Business Admin/Mgmt
- CIP code
- 52.0212: Retail Management.
- TOP code
- 0506.50 - Retail Store Operations and Management*
Next Steps
Certificate of Achievement — expand to learn about this award
A career-aligned credential built around a specific field of study or area of emphasis. Faster to complete than a degree, and the coursework typically stacks into a related AS or AA later if you choose to continue.
Semester-by-Semester Map
Term 1
Class Schedules
course details
This course is an examination of information and communication technologies used in today's businesses and the impact these technologies are having on today's workplaces. The course will include examination and application of a wide range of information and communication technology tools used to support and enhance business functions and processes. Focus will be placed on solving a variety of business problems, improving organizational productivity, and achieving the goals of business.
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This course is survey of business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Students will learn about how this business context (including issues such as ethics and sustainability) influences the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and securities market; and therefore affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. (C-ID BUS 110).
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This course invites current and future managers to build foundational skills for leading teams of employees in a diverse, multicultural work environment. The focus is on self-assessment, analyzing to understand work situations, as well as developing leadership skills and strategies. This course emphasizes individual factors impacting success including communication skills, conflict resolution, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and business ethics.
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An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies. Market equilibrium will also be discussed. (C-ID ECON 201).
Prerequisite: Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of elementary algebra.
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Term 2
Class Schedules
course details
This course is an introductory accounting course designed for students with little or no prior training in accounting. Topics span the accounting cycle including analysis of business transactions, journalizing, posting, and preparation of financial statements using a hands-on approach. The course prepares students for entry level accounting careers, further study of accounting principles, or to help small business owners manage their own accounting records.
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This course explores the nature, function and importance of marketing. It focuses on conducting opportunity analysis, assessing consumer behavior, engaging in marketing research, and target marketing as the basis for devising marketing objectives and plans. Students will develop and assess marketing strategies to meet the needs of consumer and Business-to-Business (B2B) target markets using the "4 P's": product, promotion, price and place. The emphasis is on ethics, needs-satisfaction, and relationship marketing in today's global, technology-infused, competitive environment.
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Career Connections
2-Year Degree Paths
Entry points students may pursue after associate-level study, technical preparation, or licensure pathways.
No locally mapped occupations in the current dataset point cleanly to an immediate 2-year outcome for this program.
4-Year Degree Paths
Roles that more often open up after transfer and a bachelor's degree.
Example roles: 3
- Personal Service Managers, All Other
- General and Operations Managers
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Graduate School Paths
Advanced roles commonly associated with graduate, professional, or post-baccalaureate study.
Example roles: 1
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
Local Job Market
Personal Service Managers, All OtherSOC 11-91791 nearby opening
Top employers in sample
- Magellan Health 1
Where the postings are
- Hammonton, Yuba County 1
Sample current postings
General and Operations ManagersSOC 11-102165 nearby openings
Top employers in sample
- LocumJobsNetwork 3
- Butte County 1
- City Rise LLC 1
- CompHealth 1
- Enloe Health 1
Where the postings are
- Chico, Butte County 6
- Oregon, Butte County 5
- Chapmantown, Butte County 2
- Thermalito, Butte County 2
- Butte Creek, Butte County 1
Sample current postings
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales WorkersSOC 41-1011no nearby openings indexed
No nearby openings matched any of: first-line supervisors of retail sales worker. Browse this occupation on Adzuna for postings outside the mapped keyword set.
Business Teachers, PostsecondarySOC 25-10113 nearby openings
Top employers in sample
- Kaplan 1
- Lassen College Portal 1
- Palisade Ttahoe 1
Where the postings are
- Davis, Yolo County 1
- Olympic Valley, Placer County 1
- Susanville, Lassen County 1
Sample current postings
Posting counts come from Adzuna's index of US job boards, covering the last up to 90 days within up to 100 miles of ZIP 95965. Coverage and salary visibility vary by employer. Empty searches expand the radius and posting window before the section gives up.
Source Notes
Course sequencing is generated from the Acadia Program Mapper cache. Career groupings use local CIP-to-SOC mappings and BLS occupation data when available. Confirm education plans with Counseling and Advising.
Live wage data was not available from the BLS helper for the mapped occupations, so some pay fields may be blank.
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