Degree: Associate of Applied Arts and Sciences
The Business curriculum prepares students for entry into many growing and rewarding occupations or for transfer to four-year programs. Potential career fields include management, marketing and sales, administration, accounting, entrepreneurship, international business, office management and business systems.
Required Program Courses: 27 hours (grade of C or better required)
Core Business Courses: Financial Accounting I, Business Communication, Management, Principles of Microeconomics, and a minimum of 3 hours from Introduction to Accounting Software, Advanced EXCEL, Web Authoring and Publishing, Desktop Publications.
Support Business Courses: Choose a minimum of 12 additional hours from Business Accounting, Business Administration, Business Computer Systems (except 101 and 112), and Economics. Other courses may be substituted with departmental approval.
First Year Fall Program courses
Exploring Business
Principles of Macroeconomics
Recommended courses
College Writing I
First-Year Seminar
history or humanities course
computer course
Spring Program courses
Principles of Microeconomics
Marketing and Sales or Entrepreneurship
business or computer elective
Recommended courses
Biblical Literature
Fitness Concepts
Second Year Fall Program courses
Business Communication
Financial Accounting I (if not taken first year)
Management
business or computer elective
Recommended courses
Advanced Excel
Spring Program courses
business or computer electives
Recommended courses
second Hesston College distinctive
Speech Communication
General Education Notes: take Principles of Microeconomics to meet the social science requirement. An economics and an accounting course is required to meed math requirement regardless of ACT, SAT or ASSET score.