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Business Certificates

Business Credit Certificates

A certificate program can allow you to earn credentials that enhance your employability while offering a gateway to a college degree. Start by completing the credit courses and earning the certificate, and then apply the courses toward a degree now or in the future. This is a great strategy to use credit certificates to step-up to a degree.

Foundations of Business Certificate

A certificate program can allow you to earn credentials that enhance your employability while offering a gateway to a college degree. Start by completing the credit courses and earning the certificate, and then apply the courses toward a degree now or in the future. This is a great strategy to use credit certificates to step-up to a degree.

The Foundations of Business Certificate is designed to provide an introduction to core business concepts. Students develop communication, technical, and analytical skills needed for the contemporary business environment. This program may be used as a step-up to the associate degree in Business Administration. Students with this certificate will develop basic written and oral communication skills, be able to use contemporary information technology as tools to accomplish professional tasks effectively, and develop an understanding of ethical issues, social responsibilities and resolutions to conflicts in a business environment.

Requirements for the Certificate: (13 Credits)

Required Courses

  • B A 241 (2), B A 242 (2); B A 243 (4)
  • ECON 102 (3) or ECON 104 (3)
  • ENGL 15 (3)
  • MIS 204 (3)

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Dr. Ali Kara
Professor of Business Administration
Discipline Coordinator, Business and Economics, University College

Room 206, M.S. Grumbacher Information Sciences and Technology Center
axk19@psu.edu
717-771-4189

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