- Community of interest
- Business, Cosmetology, Arts & Design
- Award
- Certificate
- Program code
- BUSONWEB.CC
- Department
- BEDX Skill Builder
- CIP code
- 52.0208: E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce.
- TOP code
- 0509.70 - E-Commerce (Business emphasis)*
Program detailsAward, code, department, CIP/TOP
Program Snapshot
- Community of interest
- BCAD Business, Cosmetology, Arts & Design
- Award
- Certificate
- Program code
- BUSONWEB.CC
- Department
- BEDX Skill Builder
- CIP code
- 52.0208: E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce.
- TOP code
- 0509.70 - E-Commerce (Business emphasis)*
Next Steps
Certificate — expand to learn about this award
A short-cycle credential built around a specific skill or job role. Useful as an entry point to a field, a step toward a larger credential, or a way to round out an existing degree.
Financial aid note. Courses taken solely to complete a Certificate of Completion are not eligible for financial aid.
Semester-by-Semester Map
Term 1
Class Schedules
course details
This course applies the principles of ethical, effective, and accessible communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. This course is designed for students who already have college-level writing skills.
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This course provides students with theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience with artificial intelligence (AI) tools, focusing on the use of AI in business practices. The curriculum encompasses a broad spectrum of AI, from foundational concepts to practical applications, including advanced prompt engineering techniques. It looks at the use of generative and analytical AI tools for purposes of writing, researching, presenting, and marketing for business workers. It addresses ethical considerations and the broader societal impacts of AI.
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This course covers the practical considerations, challenges and rewards associated with starting and operating a small business. The course explores how to identify small business opportunities; the factors influencing entrepreneurial success; and financing, marketing, managing, record-keeping and computer applications to support small business operations. Each student will identify a business opportunity, then create a detailed business plan.
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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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This course introduces students to web marketing tools, strategies, application and measurement. It examines benefits and challenges associated with web marketing technologies including web site development, search engine optimization, online advertising, social media, email campaigns, blog marketing, digital public relations, multimedia and mobile marketing. Students will learn how to create a web marketing strategy and then apply web marketing technologies in a measurable way to achieve business objectives.
Career Connections
2-Year Degree Paths
Entry points students may pursue after associate-level study, technical preparation, or licensure pathways.
Example roles: 1
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
4-Year Degree Paths
Roles that more often open up after transfer and a bachelor's degree.
Example roles: 2
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
- Business Operations Specialists, All Other
Graduate School Paths
Advanced roles commonly associated with graduate, professional, or post-baccalaureate study.
No locally mapped occupations in the current dataset are grouped into the graduate-school pathway for this program.
Local Job Market
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support WorkersSOC 43-10113 nearby openings
Top employers in sample
- Butte County 2
- Ewald & Wasserman Research 1
Where the postings are
- Thermalito, Butte County 2
- Chico, 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 Operations Specialists, All OtherSOC 13-11994 nearby openings
Top employers in sample
- PG&E Corporation 1
- Pacific Gas And Electric Company 1
- Pure HomeRiver 1
- Westlake Hardware 1
Where the postings are
- Chico, Butte County 4
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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