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COURSE DESCRIPTION: Small  Business Management - BUSG 2309: 

Small Business Management is a course on how to start and operate a small business. Topics include facts about small business, essential management skills, how to prepare a business plan, financial needs, marketing strategies, and legal issues.

This is a comprehensive examination of establishing and operating a small business in today’s dynamic business environment.  This course covers such topics as risk taking and entrepreneurship, forms of ownership, planning, organizing and managing, feasibility analysis, financing, human resources management, ethics, international business, governmental regulation and taxation, franchising, starting or buying a small business and other relevant subject areas.

COURSE RATIONALE:  

 The primary objective of this course is to inform the student of the nature and importance of small business in our society. We also wish to enlighten the student as to opportunities and risks inherent in small businesses. This course will provide a student with the following: 

• Small business management strategies
• essential management skills
• how to prepare a business plan
• financial needs and access to resources – information – general and financial  
• marketing strategies
• legal issues.

INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY:

Instruction is in a traditional classroom setting using textbook and multi-media presentation. Instructor will use textbook, concept explanations, current events information, and use of personal experiences that are relevant to Business Principles. 

COMMON COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This course should provide students with basic knowledge to help him or her decide whether or not:

• small business management is suitable for them.

• they have access to the resources (informational and financial) necessary for success
• if their small business venture is predictably destined for success or failure? 

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK / MATERIALS:     

 Entrepreneurial Small Business,   Second Edition,   2009 

Authors: Katz & Green

Publisher: McGraw-Hill          ISBN: 13: 978-0-07-296798-2

                                                    ISBN: 10: 0-07-296798-6 

• EXAMS:     Four major exams will be given (see course outline for dates).  The exams will cover multiple chapters each.  Each exam will have 50 multiple choice questions for 2.0 points each. These will be administered in the classroom.  Exams make 50% of the course grade.

• CHAPTER QUIZZES:  There will be homework chapter quizzes for the textbook chapters.  These will be all multiple choice questions 10 per quiz.  These quizzes will be in Blackboard, with appropriate due dates.  Quizzes make 20% of the course grade.

• MAGIZINE ARTICLE REVIEW: Each student will be assigned a small business topic. The student is required to read a magazine article concerning this aspect of small business. You are to summarize the article and post on Blackboard as well as class presentation.  Business Topic Article Review  will make 20 % of the course grade

• B  BUSINEB BUSINESS PLAN:  Your class project will be a personal BUSINESS PLAN PROJECT. You will be participating in this project semester long and then you will make a class presentation near the end of the semester. Class Project will make 20% of the course grade.  

Adjunct Professor Molina holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration Management.  She has taught at ACC for many years here in Austin as well as multiple years in North Texas and Western Venezuela.

She has extensive experience in business management, real estate brokerage management, investments, and in education.  Her passion is for start-up businesses.

Professor Molina has been actively engaged in real estate investment since 1988.  

She has received the following AWARDS: Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient - 2005: National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development - University of Texas Austin: and Virtual College of Texas Grant Recipient - 2007: On-line class development proposal. 

ACC Business Adjunct Professor of the Year - 2008.

Phylis serves on the Austin Community College Distance Learning Committee and is a member of the Texas Distance Learning Association, Austin Board of Realtors, National Association of Realtors, and the Texas Real Estate Teachers Association.