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Course Description

General Business is designed to introduce students to the functions of modern business practices including arithmetic skills, vocabulary building, writing skills, and vocational guidance in business. Included are units on international business, the global economy, economics, entrepreneurship, and the changing business world.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able:

• Identify opportunity costs and trade-offs involved in making choices about how to use scarce economic resources.



• Use a rational decision-making process as it applies to the roles of citizens, workers, and consumers.
  


• Relate personal interests, wants, and abilities to career choices, and asses how conditions in the labor market may affect career choices.
  


• Describe how cultural differences, export/import opportunities, and current trends in a global marketplace can affect an entrepreneural venture.
  


• Apply communication strategies necessary and appropriate for effective and profitable international business relations.
  


• Describe the social, cultural, political, legal, economic factors that shape and impact the international business environment.