BORICUA COLLEGE | BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE

Business Administration Program

(HEGIS: 0506)
Minimum Required Credits: 132

This program aims to develop management professionals for the private and public business sector who are aware of the changing language and cultural diversity of the marketplace.

Goal: Graduates can demonstrate self-awareness and mastery of the skills, values and knowledge of business management.

Objectives: Graduates will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate self-awareness and competency in the integrated use of generic intellectual skills to master basic principles and methods of business management.

  2. Demonstrate self-awareness and competency in the integrated use of generic affective skills and humanistic values in business administration.

  3. Demonstrate self-awareness and competency in the practice of skills, values and knowledge of business management problem solving.

  4. Demonstrate self-awareness and competency in the application of integrated intellectual, affective and psychomotor and technology skills to master the facts theories and methods of the social sciences related to business management.

  5. Demonstrate self-awareness and competency in the application of integrated intellectual, affective and psychomotor skills to master selected principles of the cultural humanities related business management.

NOTE: The Business Administration Program (B.S.) requires completion of a minimum of 132 credits of course work with a minimum 2.0 GPA based on assessment rubrics, exams or other direct measures of student learning; and completion of the Generic Studies-Liberal Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum.

Course curriculum table from Boricua College's Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, illustrating courses across Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters with credit hours and course titles, including modules, colloquium, experiential studies, and practical internships.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate competency in the affective skills and values of receiving and responding to acquire knowledge of the philosophical principles of the business enterprise and profession of management decision-making. Special attention will focus on the differences between personal and professional values and possible value conflicts experienced by managers.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate the affective skills and values necessary in the control methods required to achieve operational objectives. The Case Study method will be used in creating learning experiences.

  • Students will demonstrate mastery of their affective skills and values in learning about the issues and problems in selecting and training personnel; design of job descriptions; setting performance criteria; development of fringe benefit packages and salary standards; and understanding and monitoring Federal and State labor regulations.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate ability to integrate the affective skills, values and knowledge of business management decision-making into a professional method of work.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate the generic skills and abilities in the preparation of budgets and the uses of the budget operational and capital for organizational control. Students will be able to demonstrate their skills in this area by producing various kinds of budgets.

  • Students will demonstrate their ability to guide an organizational development process by analyzing case studies that explore developmental issues within organizations and the source of pressures for change, and objectives of organizational development.

Colloquium

Small group colloquia are designed to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their self-awareness and Mastery of the Affective Skills of receiving (listening and reading), responding (speaking and writing) and expressing their values, feelings and emotions in understanding the generic principles of the liberal arts and sciences.

Experiential Studies

These courses concentrate on the “psychomotor” dimension of learning and  compliments the cognitive and affective skills developed in individualized instruction and colloquium.  These sequences of courses evolve from perceptual enrichment through sensory awareness and physical development to instrumental and complex skills where the cognitive and affective dimensions integrate with the psychomotor.

  • A series of six (6) workshops in which students will demonstrate the use of fundamental quantitative techniques in management decisions. The curriculum includes simulation, statistical analysis, financial analysis and other techniques. A total of 50 hours of field observation is required.

  • This course of six (6) workshops is a continuation of Practicum I with subject matter of greater complexity and depth, in order to develop in students the ability to demonstrate competency in quantitative, analytic skills necessary for effective management. A total of 50 hours of field observation is also required.

  • Under supervision, students will be able to demonstrate through mastery of the intellectual affective and psychomotor-behaviors their knowledge and skills in management decision-making in the business aspects of an organization. Students are required to complete 90 hours of a supervised internship, and receive oversights visits by faculty.

  • Under supervision, students will be able to demonstrate mastery in the intellectual, affective and psychomotor-behaviors and knowledge and skills of business management in a real-life setting. Students are required to complete 90 hours of internship, and receive oversight visits by faculty.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate increasing mastery of managerial and supervisory skills.

Theoretical Studies (Electives)

  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the basic statistical principles. Topics include variables and graphs, frequency distributions; mean, median, mode and other measures of central tendencies; standard deviation and other measures of dispersion; elementary probability theory; tests of hypothesis and significance; small sampling theory; chi square tests, curve fitting and the method of least squares.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the philosophy, processes and problems of the democratic system in the United States. Topics include: the structure and powers of federal, state and city governments; separation of powers through checks and balances; political parties; the election process; interest groups and civil rights.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of Economics. Among the topics covered are laws of supply and demand and the principle of scarcity. In addition, students will explore issues of unemployment, inflation and interest rates; measures of economic performance, such as gross national product and national income. The course ends with a review of monetary and fiscal policies and their impact on economic growth.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the basic principles of accounting. Topics include the recording of transactions; the accounting term; assets and liabilities; preparation of financial statements; analysis of financial data as applied-to-sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations.

Cultural Studies (Electives)

The College believes that affirmation of students’ culture is essential to their learning process; Cultural Studies courses supplement as context for the learning processes of the previous four types of courses.

  • At the end of this course students will be able to demonstrate comprehension and knowledge of the economic, political, social, and cultural developments that created early civilizations. The course presents world history through an analysis of five (5) topics, including: 1) Human Origins and Human Cultures; 2) Settling Down: Rise of the Village Community and the City-State; 3) Empire and Imperialism; 4) Rise of World Religions; 5) Movement of Goods (Trade) and People (Migration).

  • At the end of this course students will be able to demonstrate comprehension and knowledge of the economic, political, social, and cultural developments that created contemporary civilizations. The course presents world history through an analysis of the following seven topics: 1) Nature of the Global Economy and Geopolitics in the 16th Century; 2) Economic Growth, Religion and Migration; 3) Industrial, Social and Political Revolutions in Europe and throughout the Americas; 4) Technological Innovations: Mass Production and Destruction; 5) the World at War (WWI and WWII) and the Rise of New Nations; 6) The Cold War and the Emergence of New Nations and the Third World; 7) Political, Religious, Economic and Cultural issues in the 21st Century.

    NOTE: Although World History I is not a prerequisite to taking World History II, it is advisable that students take World History I prior to taking World History II.

  • This is a survey course on the social, cultural, and political development of Western Civilization. Topics include: the ancient Near East; the civilization of the Greeks and Romans; European Civilization in the middle ages; the Age of Renaissance; the Age of Reformation; concept of the Nation-State and the search for order in the seventeenth century; the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science.

  • An exploration of the history of art, beginning with prehistoric art and covering major periods and styles.

  • This course is a survey of English and American literature featuring both the classics and contemporary American writings in English, including by African American and Latino writers. The course will deal with English and American literary traditions such as the “gilded age”, African-American Renaissance, the American novel, Immigrant novel, magic reality, cultural identifications, celebrations and rituals, the role of the oral traditions and their transmission and transformation in written works, stylistic innovations in the use of language of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou and Julia de Burgos, writers as individuals and as a members of a cultural community.

Independent Studies

  • (TBA)

Individualized Instruction

The Individualized Instruction courses in the Generic Studies Core Curriculum program require students to demonstrate self-awareness and mastery in the use of critical, intellectual skills necessary for understanding the generic principles of the liberal arts and sciences. At Boricua College, the study of these mental processes is referred to as Cognitive Science.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate competency in the use of critical intellectual skills to acquire knowledge of management theories, and ability to make management decisions through systematic analysis, of managerial problems and creation of action strategies to solve them.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate mastery level competency in the use of their intellectual skills to acquire knowledge of planning models and their utility as well as organizational behavior and development in business management.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate mastery in the use of their intellectual skills to acquire knowledge of marketing theories and marketing strategies used by a firm to attract consumers; the business philosophy that orients a firm towards a particular consumer; how business professionals collect and analyze market characteristics and create buyer motivation towards purchasing a product.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate mastery level competency in the use of their intellectual skills to acquire knowledge of the legal system and other areas of the law affecting the management of private or public business enterprises.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate their intellectual skills to acquire knowledge of the theories and practice of how to finance a business firm.