The Degree / Associate Degree in Business Studies is offered by CCCJ in association with Knox Community College. The programme is offered over a two - four (4) year period. The course consists of four majors; Accounting, Management, Office Administration and Marketing
Course Descriptions
COMM 1101 Communication 1 (3 credits)
This course aims to develop students’ ability to use Standard English to express themselves clearly, precisely and fluently in speech and writing. It also focuses on the Jamaican Language situation with the aim of examining the influence of the Jamaican Creole on the learning of Standard Jamaican English. It is also aimed at enhancing students’ information gathering and processing skills. It will focus on both the reading and listening skills required for basic research, effective comprehension and the summary of information.
COMM 1202 Communication 2 (3 credits)
This course aims to develop students’ ability to use Standard English structures to express themselves clearly, precisely and fluently in speech and writing. It focuses on the process used in oral and written communication. It is designed to provide students with opportunities to produce various types of oral and written communication while selecting and combining forms, media, channels and technologies to maximize communication.
ITECH1101 Information Technology 1 (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the application of computers in different organizations. It includes a thorough introduction to computers and information technology, information systems, computer networks and systems security. It also aims at equipping students with practical skills in MS – Windows, MS-Word and the Internet.
ITECH1201 Information Technology 2 (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of computer networks and systems security as well as to provide students with skills in electronic spreadsheet, database and presentation graphics.
MGMT1101 Introduction to Management (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the range of decisions encountered by managers in business organizations. Emphasis will be placed on the applications of the theories of management with a view of highlighting the managerial functions.
MRKT1201 Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
This course introduces students to a basic understanding of how the marketing functions help the organization to achieve its objectives. It also sensitizes students to the fact that the marketing function does not only deal with the production and distribution of products and services, but also is concerned with the ethical and social issues found in the domestic and global environment.
MRKT3301 Consumer Behaviour (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the dynamics of consumer buying behaviour and the consumer market. Students will also gain an understanding of how the buyer characteristics are affected by socio-cultural, personal, and psychological factors; and how these factors influence consumers buying decisions. Students will also become aware that in order for companies to be successful, marketers must be marketing-oriented and customer-driven.
MRKT3401 International Marketing (3 credits)
This course gives students an appreciation for the dynamics and the challenges of the global marketplace. It will also help them to understand the need for companies to develop a systematic approach to international marketing decisions in order to deal with potential risks, and to capitalize on the opportunities.
MRKT2301 Marketing Strategies (3 credits)
This course provides an understanding of how companies design strategies to deal with the dynamics of their marketing environment in order to meet competition and ensure long-term survival and growth.
PSYC1101 Psychology (3 credits)
This course is designed primarily to provide students with a general understanding and appreciation of human behaviour and its impact on social and business relationship.
ECON1101 Microeconomics (3 credits)
Economics affects every aspect of our daily life. It is important that each person has at least a basic understanding of the subject and how it affects his/her life. The course will provide students with a sound knowledge of economics and will enable them to apply this knowledge in their daily lives. It will also provide students with an understanding of the current and emerging patterns of business organization and foster appreciation of the practical problems of firms and industries in the context of the rapidly changing economic environment.
ECON1201 Macroeconomics (3 credits)
Economics affects every aspect of our daily life. It is important that each person has at least a basic understanding of the subject and how it affects his/her life. The course is therefore designed to provide students with a sound knowledge of economics. It provide an understanding of the current and emerging patterns of business organization and foster appreciation of the practical of the rapidly changing economics environment. It will also encourage critical reading to gain information in our every-changing world as well as to encourage critical analysis of economic information.
MATH1201 Pre-Calculus (3 credits)
This course enables students to apply the principles and concepts of pre-calculus to the solution of business problems and to develop their decision-making skills.
MATH3401 Business Statistics (3 credits)
This course enables students to apply principles of statistics to the solution of business problems and to develop their decision-making skills. It also includes the use of statistical software
MATH1301 Calculus (3 credits)
This course enables students to connect the principles and concepts to pre-calculus and to apply these to the solution of business problems and to further develop their decision-making skills.
ACCT1101 Fundamentals of Accounting (3 credits)
This course is designed to help students to appreciate the importance of financial accounting in the workplace. The course involves the posting of transactions to the ledger and the preparation of final accounts with adjustments for accruals, prepayment, depreciation and provision for bad debts.
ACCT1201 Financial Accounts 1 (3 credits)
To provide students with the skills required to prepare final accounts for the different organization such as sole trader, partnership, company, non-trading entities and manufacturing concerns. Students will also develop skills in computerized accounting.
ACCT2301 Financial Accounting 2 (3 credits)
This course introduces students to the framework of financial accounting. Within this course students are exposed to different methods of stock valuation, the preparation of partnership accounts, published accounts for company as well as cash flow statements. It also involves the analysis of financial statements using ratios.
ACCT3301 Audit Practice and Procedure (3 credits)
This course aims to provide a theoretical background for students to understand the role and function of the auditor in the business environment. After completing this course the student should have a basic understanding of the audit process and the techniques used in the conduct of internal and external audits.
ACCT3401 Taxation (3 credits)
This course aims to provide a theoretical background for students to understand the basic principles of taxation in the Jamaican environment. After completing this course the student should have an understanding of the tax law and practice as it relates to individuals and businesses, employees and employers resident in Jamaica.
SOC12301 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
This course is an introduction to the problem, issues, themes and main ideas of sociology. It is intended to introduce students to the basic sociology perspectives and concepts, and enable them to adopt a scientific approach to the problems and issues that are relevant to the Caribbean. The course is designed to enable the student to utilize basic fundamental concepts of sociology to analyze social issues and problems in the changing Caribbean culture and some of the most important institutions.
BLAW2401 Business Law (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide Business education students with an understanding of the general/fundamental legal principles operating within the business environment
MGMT2401 Entrepreneurship & Business Practice (3 credits)
This course will focus on developing an awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship to the success of organizations. This course is also designed to enable participants to acquire the necessary skills required to prepare a business plan as well as to start and operate an organization.
RMTD3401 Research Methods (3 credits)
This course will help the student to choose research topics carefully and to use their research skills to enhance the world and its inhabitants. The students will be exposed to scientific means of collecting and presenting data. Thus the course will include research questions, hypothesis testing, questionnaire, observation techniques, descriptive statistics etc.
LANG2301 Spanish 1 (3 credits)
This course is designed for students with no prior knowledge of Spanish. It is therefore, aimed at developing basic communicative competencies in the target language by equipping students with both receptive skills (listening, reading) and productive skills (speaking, writing) to function in common real life situations where Spanish is used. It is also expected to serve as a foundation course for the advanced course and for further studies in the language.
Spanish 2 LANG2402 (3 credits)
This course is designed for students with a level of competence in Introductory Spanish. Therefore, it is aimed at building on the basic communicative competencies in the target language learnt in the introductory course. It is also expected to develop students who will be able to communicate more effectively in the Spanish environment.
ACCT2401Cost Accounting (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the framework of cost accounting. It covers such areas as cost behaviour, traditional costing vs activity based costing, marginal & absorption costing , cost-volume profit analysis, budgeting, variance analysis and capital investment appraisal.
ACCT2302 Financial Management (3 credits)
The central theme of this course is to provide a coverage of the basic concepts of finance and to provide students with an understanding of the importance of the role of a financial manager to an organization and to examine how a business organization responds to the constrain and complexities of the real world and how these impact on managerial decisions.
MGMT3301 Human Resource Management (3 credits)
This course provides an overview of human resource management. It aims at providing a thorough guide to recruitment and selection, motivating employees and maintaining employees and to show the implication of these factors on productivity in a changing environment.
MGMT24002 Industrial Relations (3 credits)
This course is designed to help students understand and appreciate the importance of industrial relations to the successful management of businesses and to provide students with an opportunity to obtain hands-on and/or first-hand experience of industrial relations practices at the work-place.
OADM2302 Shorthand (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a form of note-taking skills required to assist them to function effectively in the workplace as efficient office administration assistant. Pitman 2000 Shorthand System will be used.
OADM2401 Transcription (3 credits)
This course is designed to provide students with a form of note-taking skills required to assist them to function effectively in the workplace as efficient office administration assistant.
OADM2301 Office Systems (3 credits)
This program has been designed to sensitize students to the job opportunities available in this field. It aims to equip students with the relevant skills in order to meet the challenges of the technological age as well as to help students understand the principles and practices of office systems
ITEC2301 Word Information Processing (3 credits)
This is a specialist area offered in the 3rd semester in a four-semester program of the Associate Degree in Business majoring in Office Administration. The Word Information Processing programme has been developed to prepare students to gain successful employment in Office Administration and to manipulate the computer to process all forms of information.
MGMT2301 International Business Management (3 credits)
The central theme of this course is to examine the relationship between the processes of economic development and national competitiveness and the theory and practice of international business and how small open developing countries should responds to the constraints and complexities of the principal institutions, systems, theories and concepts that comprise the framework for international business; and managing the international operations of firms in the Caribbean regions with respect to the current imperatives of international business and development.
CARS2301 Caribbean Studies (3 credits)
This course provides an overview of how various aspects of Caribbean Life and development as a region, affects our development. Within this course students are equipped to the Caribbean Region, its position in relation to the rest of the world, cultural expressions and identity, the impact of dominant ideologies and individuals who have impacted on the kind of leadership in the Caribbean and the various ideologies that have shaped integration and the development of the Caribbean Region
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