Bus. 51 – INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS

Section #79272

Instructor:   Nancy Maloney-Mercado, General Business Instructor

Phone:        408-741-2045 x3578; E-Mail:  [email protected]

Required Course Text EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS, REVISED EDITION by Bovee, Thill, and Mescon.  Possibility of one field trip; to be announced in lieu of one class time.  Assignment times
subject to change.  Homework assignments are mandatory and graded.   Late assignments loose points.

Class meets at West Valley on Tuesday, 6:50 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. in CR 5

Reading/Study/ Assignment

Reading/Study Assignment

September  1--      Introduction, Read Chapter 1,  answers to Questions for Application due.

October 27—Read Chapter 12; article summary due; answers to Questions for Application due.

September  8--    Read Chapter 2, answers to Questions for Application due.

November 3 – Review for next test

September 15--    Read Chapter 3; choose a company to follow for the semester; to be explained in class. Answers to Questions for Application due.                                              

November 10 --   TEST 3. CHS.  7, 8, 10, and 12 (100  PTS.)                         

September 22--    Read Chapter 5; answers to Questions for Application due. Review for test.

November 17--     Read Chapter 6; answers to Questions for Application due.

September 29--TEST 1 on Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 worth (100 points).  Bring an 882 Scantron, #2 pencil, and a Blue Book.  

November 24--     Read Chapter 13;  Draft of report is due; bring in whatever you have done.  Answers to Questions for Application due.

October 6--      Read  Chapter 7; Summary due on

"An Inconvenient Truth."  Answers to Questions for Application due

December 1--    Report is due (100 pts.).   Read Chapter 15.  Answers to Questions for Application due.

October 13--     Read Chapter 8; answers to Questions for Application due.

December 8--  Oral report Presentation (50 pts.) No excuses

 

October 20--     Read Chapter 10; pick up take-home test 2 on chapters 4 and 9; return next week.

December 15    TEST 4 Final on CHS. :  6, 13, and 15                     

IMPORTANT:  For all tests bring a Green Scan-Tron Form 882-E or ES, a number 2 pencil, and a Blue Book.

I'm on campus the night of class at 5:30 in the General Business office.                

Points to earn:  Test 1—100 pts., Test 2—25 pts.,

Test 3 –100 pts.,  Test 4--Final, 100 pts.,

Summary 1 –25 pts., summary 2 —25  pts., Report—100 pts., oral presentation--50 pts., homework, classroom participation, and attendance—100 pts.  Total points 625.  

Study all the required chapters by the final date, independent of the lecture pace.  Do not forget this!  The above schedule is your required reading, assignment, and study schedule.  You are to choose a company to follow throughout the semester; every week you are to choose three vocabulary words from the chapter and apply them to the company of your choice, and write up a paragraph using those vocabulary words.

SPECIAL NOTES:

  1. No video and/or no audio (tape) recording of lectures without prior written permission of instructor.
  2. Any cheating and plagiarism is an automatic "F" in this course.  The teacher has the option to assign the student an "F" grade for the course for student violations of the "Code of Student Conduct" as published in the West Valley College Catalog, and Schedule of Classes under "Student Responsibilities and Rights."
  3. You can easily e-mail me with any questions or comments.
  4. If you have a problem or a grievance, talk to your teacher first.  No exceptions to this rule.  No matter what happens.... Always keep your teacher informed...  I really care; I am getting paid to make YOU successful in this business course.  If you are successful, so am I.

This is a required first course for all business majors, and it should be taken within the students' first year as a business major.  The course is acceptable for three transfer credits to California State University.   Dropping the course is the students' responsibility, not the instructor's.