Anisfield School of Business: Business Essentials Certificate Program
Gain a foundation in essential business principles.
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At a glance:
The Business Essentials Certificate Program offers a suite of courses addressing core business competencies, as well as professional seminars to develop relevant skills for today’s workplace. The program gives you a broad foundation in the business disciplines of accounting, marketing and management principles. Students can further customize their certificates by choosing to study business law, information technology, or corporate finance. All courses are college level and credit bearing and have been selected from the core curriculum of the Anisfield School of Business. These four courses are supplemented by two Personal Effectiveness Seminars chosen from an array of hands-on topics such as Time Management, Negotiating Skills, Conflict Resolution and Managing People.
| Satisfactory completion (grade of “C” or better) of all of the following courses: |
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| ACCT 221 MKTG 290 MGMT 302 |
Principles of Financial Accounting Marketing Principles & Practices Managing Organizational Behavior |
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| BADM 223 INFO 224 FINC 301 |
Business Law I Principles of Information Technology Corporate Finance I * |
| Participation in at least two of the offered Personal Effectiveness Seminars. *Requires additional preparation - see course description. |
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16 Credit Hours
To earn a certificate, a student is required to complete four credit-bearing courses (16 credits) within the Anisfield School of Business. These courses provide a basic, but broad business foundation in the areas of accounting, marketing and management and an opportunity for further study in business law, information systems, or finance. The actual courses are part of the ASB Professional Core curriculum.
Students must attend at least two of several personal effectiveness seminars that will be offered to program participants. These non-credit seminars will cover such topics as time management, negotiation skills, effective communication, career networking and effective job search strategies. The seminars are offered in the summer on Monday evenings.
Summer Sessions
It is expected that most students will complete their course work during the summer sessions when sufficient sections of each course will be offered at convenient times. To meet the needs of working students, at least one section of each course will be offered either online or in an evening timeslot of the summer sessions. By taking one course in each summer session, a student should be be able to complete the certificate program in as little as two summers. An ambitious student could even complete it in one summer, by taking both day or online and evening courses during both sessions.
Who Will Benefit from the Business Essentials Certificate Program?
College students with non-business-major seeking to enrich their academic experiences and broaden their career prospects by developing a working knowledge of fundamental business concepts. Examples include a communications major interested in radio and television production; a nursing student interested in hospital management; a psychology major who 
plans to one day open a private practice; and a bioinformatics major seeking a career in the pharmaceutical industry.
Adult Learners. Examples include: a small business owner who feels he/she has not had sufficient training in business fundamentals; a working individual seeking a career change into a more business oriented position; and a college graduate with a non-business degree preparing to apply to, or begin, an MBA program.
For additional information, please contact Ms. Karen Norton, 201.684.6653 or at knorton@ramapo.edu.
