The Associate of Science in Business offers a unique blend of the foundational business courses that serve as an introduction to business and management theory, as well as the liberal arts courses needed for well-rounded education. This lower level division, 64-credit academic program provides a wide array of introductory level courses and skills that can increase the student's value to the workplace or serves as a stepping stone for the achievement of a bachelor's level degree.
The first courses in the program guide students in their personal and professional growth, establish the initial proficiencies needed for oral and written communications and introduce the basic concepts needed to understand the economic environment of business. Students proceed through the ASB program by taking one course at a time in the designated sequence, with each course building on the skills and competencies learned in previous coursework.
Throughout the ASB program, students work in project teams that increase their learning opportunities, serve as a support system, and allow them to evaluate diverse solutions to typical business problems. During the first course in the program, all students complete a Community Service Project. This project enables students to learn to function as a team, deepens their appreciation of their civic duties and responsibilities and demonstrates the Franciscan Values inherent to the mission of Cardinal Stritch University.
The ASB program is a good choice for those students who are looking for employment in those fields that require more skills than a high school education offers, to those who want to advance to supervisory level or team leader positions and to those who want to proceed to a bachelor's degree program. With its mix of liberal arts courses and basic business and management courses, the ASB program offers students the first step to professional success.
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ASB 110 Personal and Professional Assessment (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 101 Introduction to Written Communication (8 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 105 American Free Enterprise System (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 104 Oral Communication (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 201 Persuasive Writing (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 106 Introduction to Business Ethics (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 140 Contemporary Mathematics for Business (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 208 Introduction to Management (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 151 Finite Mathematics (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 106 Environmental Studies (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 118 Introduction to American Government and Politics (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 115 Introduction to Economics (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 120 Business Law I (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 205 Accounting I: Financial Accounting (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 210 Human Resource Management I (6 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 219 American History Since 1900 (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 220 Western Civilization I (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 260 Managing Cultural Diversity (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 248 Non-Western Religions (5 weeks, 3 credits)
Calendared Electives
ASB 240 Humanities I (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 202 Sociology of Work (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 225 Western Civilization II (5 weeks, 3 credits)
MGT 265 Introduction to E-Commerce (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 230 Western Civilization III (5 weeks, 3 credits)
MGT 330 Intercultural Communication (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 245 Humanities II (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 107 Psychology of Human Relations (5 weeks, 3 credits)
Other Available Electives
ADM 427 Entrepreneurship (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 282 Introduction to Literature: Fiction (5 weeks, 3 credits)
ASB 284 Introduction to Literature: Poetry (5 weeks, 3 credits)
CIB 420 Introduction to International Business (3 weeks, 2 credits)
CIB 421 Cultural Environment of International Business (3 weeks, 2 credits)