Explore an Associate Degree for Transfer, Associate Degrees, and Certificates of Achievement.
Business
Ready to start your own business? Want to climb the corporate ladder? Add a Coastline degree or cert. to your briefcase. Make it your business to know the responsibilities of business in today's changing world.
Areas of Study
- Business - AS Degree or Cert. of Achievement
- Business Administration - AS-T Degree or AA Degree Major
- Business Economics - Cert. of Accomplishment
- Business Plan - Cert. of Specialization
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management - AA Degree or Cert. of Achievement
- Entrepreneurship Essentials - Cert. of Specialization
- Entrepreneurship For Artists - Cert. of Specialization
- Home Business - Cert. of Specialization
- Project Management - Cert. of Accomplishment
- Project Management Essentials - Cert. of Specialization
- Supervision - AA Degree or Cert. of Achievement
Academic Plans
Business
The Business program consists of various concentrations that will prepare an individual to have an understanding of business practices and provides students with the opportunity to select specific courses to meet their professional or personal business goals. These concentrations will provide entry-level professionals with knowledge and skills to work in a variety of business environments.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Business - Associate of Science Degree (60 units)
Business - Certificate of Achievement (21-22 units)
Business Administration
The Associate in Science in Business Administration for Transfer is designed to provide students with the common core of lower division courses required to transfer and pursue a baccalaureate degree in Business Administration. This includes business degrees with options such as accounting, finance, human resource management, international business, management, operations management, and marketing. *Contact Extended Learning Division for more information.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Business Administration - Associate in Science Degree for Transfer (60 units)
A major in Business Administration prepares graduates for business and management related careers in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and the public sector. Courses required for this major encourage critical thinking and problem solving. Students will develop teamwork and leadership skills, as well as an ability to motivate people and communicate effectively. *Contact Extended Learning Division for more information.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Business Administration - Associate of Arts Degree Major (60 units)
Business Economics
This 13-unit certificate program provides students with the necessary knowledge to make informed business and financial decisions. Students will gain an understanding of basic economic theory as it applies to practical business decision making, resource allocation issues, accounting practices, international markets, legal considerations, and consumer behavior patterns. This certificate is useful as a pathway to a transfer degree, to advance a career, or to gain intuition into business and economic trends.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Business Economics - Certificate of Accomplishment (13 units)
Business Plan
Designed for students who wish to take additional courses in home business.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Business Plan - Certificate of Specialization (6 units)
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
The small business sector is one of the fastest growing in the nation's economy. With an ever-increasing number of adults todayself-employed, many people either work for a small business or plan to start one of their own. Coastline’s entrepreneurship program can help prospective entrepreneurs launch new ventures or, if you are an entrepreneur who already has your businessestablished, you can strengthen your managerial and business skills to grow your business.
You will learn the fundamentals of starting and operating your own business. The program includes basic business skills as well asspecific courses in starting and managing a business. Course work covers evaluating a business opportunity, preparing a business plan, planning advertising and sales promotions, marketing a product or service, and financial management for the entrepreneurial company.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management - Associate of Arts Degree (60 units)
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Certificate of Achievement (21 units)
Entrepreneurship Essentials
The Entrepreneurship Essentials program provides students a solid foundation in the business aspects of starting and operating a small business or providing services in an independent capacity. It focuses on understand the theory and practice of managing a business, including knowledge of finance, operations, planning, decision making and the application leadership and managerial skills in various organizational environments.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Entrepreneurship Essentials - Certificate of Specialization (9 units)
Entrepreneurship For Artists
The Entrepreneurship for Artists program is to provide students a solid foundation in the business aspects of starting and operating a small business or providing services in an independent capacity in the Arts. This may include but is not limited to operating galleries, museums or theaters as well as providing services as an illustrator, graphic designer, set designer, studio artist, etc.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Entrepreneurship for Artists - Certificate of Specialization (8-9 units)
Home Business
The home-based business certificate is a three-course sequence that was created to provide basic, intermediate, and advanced educational opportunities designed to help you choose and successfully launch a home-based business.
The courses will give the current and future home-based entrepreneur an overview of home-based business and the spectrum of opportunities that successful home-based entrepreneurs are pursuing. With an ever-increasing number of adults today self-employed, many are running their own home-based business or are planning to start one.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Home Business - Certificate of Specialization (9 units)
Project Management
The Project Management Certificate of Accomplishment addresses the increasing importance of team work in the business environment. The program is designed to provide an understanding of the concepts, tools, and techniques of formal project management. Concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results. The program focuses on key concepts in each of the process and knowledge areas of project management to create a unique learning experience that prepares students to manage projects in a global, multicultural, and online environment.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Project Management - Certificate of Accomplishment (15 units)
Project Management Essentials
The Project Management Essentials Certificate will prepare students for a career in Project Management, a fast-growing profession. Business professionals with technical project management knowledge, leadership and business skills for the management of projects are responsible for project success. Companies are searching, recruiting and hiring individuals who possess the right skills to effectively manage projects and are well compensated. This program also offers courses that are transferable to four-year colleges and universities and which in combination with general education classes could enhance the discipline-related Associate degree.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Project Management Essentials - Certificate of Specialization (9 units)
Supervision
The Supervision program consists of classes that will prepare an individual to have an understanding of sound supervisory skills to help him/her succeed in his/her professional and personal business goals.
Course requirements / digital catalog info:
Supervision - Associate of Arts Degree (60 units)
Supervision - Certificate of Achievement (21 units)
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Find out more about the Business Department and check out our great faculty!
"Luckily, the online education at Coastline is exceptional and there are faculty that are going to be here for you to help you succeed!" -Aeron, Coastline Business Management student
Why choose Coastline to study Business?
Simple... We have great instructors and convenient options to suit your style of learning. Coastline wants to help you earn more money, advance your career, and see more opportunities become available to you - all at your convenience.
Coastline College graduates with business degrees or certificates have gone on to become Management Analysts, Administrative Services Managers, General Managers, and Operations Managers.
