Small Business Entrepreneurship Certificate

Division: Business, Behavioral/Social Science, Public and Human Services
Academic Dept:
Business
Curriculum Chair:
Prof. John Christesen
Tel: 914-606-
6877

Program Description:
The Certificate Program for Small Business Entrepreneurship is designed for individuals interested in starting or maintaining a small business. Completing this certificate will help the small business entrepreneur maximize the skills and abilities necessary to do business in our complex environment.

The courses selected will provide the entrepreneur with the basic business foundation necessary to compete in today’s world. In New York State alone, small business employs more than half of the private sector work force and accounts for 99% of new business creation.*

This certificate provides entrepreneurship instruction across the curriculum in Management, Marketing, Communications, Computing, Accounting and Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management. Students can apply all 25 credits to the Business Administration A.A.S. degree program or to the Marketing A.A.S. degree program.

This program is for the student interested in a business sampler and the entrepreneur looking to manage business in the 21st century.

* NYS Empire State Development 2004 



Recommended Full-Time
Semester Plan
The curriculum chairperson for this program recommends taking the courses for this degree in a particular order. Click the button above for recommended semester-by-semester layout of the classes needed to complete this program.

Program Descriptions Table of Contents

Program of Study

Credit Hours

  MGT 101 Business Organization
and Management
3  
  Law 101 Business Law 1 3  
  MKT 101 Marketing 3  
  OFTEC 217 Business Communication 3  
  ACC 119 Financial Accounting 4  
  MKT 103 Principles of Selling 3  
  DP 103 Computer Info. Systems 3  
  MGT 103 Entrepreneurship 3  
  Minimum Total Credits 25  

 

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