Business Administration Certificate | UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

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Certificate Program
Business Administration

Inspired leadership

Certificate Description

Build the foundation of successful leadership

Our program builds on the huge body of science underlying the latest best practices for management. You will gain practical skills to handle the day-to-day aspects of running a business and study evidence-based methods to maximize company performance. Network with industry professionals who teach facilitation, negotiation, coaching, and how to help employees carry out a unified vision. Choose courses from four tracks:

Business Essentials
Financial Analysis/Accounting
Management Development
Marketing Business Development.

Business Administration certificate program objectives

Understand how the American legal process can impact business
Communicate business needs effectively in person and in writing
Apply marketing principles and techniques to sell your products or services
Master the fundamentals of business finance
Navigate organizational change

Cost: $ 7,000 | International Tuition Cost

Required Credits: Total Required: 8–12 courses/24 units. Take 5 required courses (13 units) and 3–7 elective credit courses (11 units). End with certificate of completion review.

Duration: A full-time student can complete the certificate in 6–12 months.

Courses

Course	Units	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
1. Required Courses
Business Law and Its Environment	3.0
Finance I, Fundamentals	3.0
Management and Organization, Principles	2.0
Microeconomics, Introduction	4.0
Principles of Marketing	2.0
2. Elective Courses: Business Essentials
Effective Negotiations: Principles, Strategies, and Techniques	1.5
Facilitation Skills	2.0
International Business and the Global Economy	3.0
Principles of Business Analysis	3.0
Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles and Applications	2.0
Supply Chain Operations Management	3.0
3. Elective Courses: Financial Analysis/Accounting
Business Economics	2.0
Business Statistics I	2.5
Finance for the Business Professional	1.0
Introduction to Accounting I: Financial Accounting	4.0
Introduction to Accounting II: Managerial Accounting	4.0
4. Elective Courses: Management Development
21st Century Leadership	1.5
Advanced Management Communications	2.0
Applied Organizational Behavior and Coaching	3.0
Business Communications	2.0
Creating the Successful Team	1.5
Human Resource Management	1.5
Organizational Development and Change	2.0
Practical Emotional Intelligence for Agile and Project Leaders	1.5
Principle Based Leadership for Project Managers	1.5
5. Elective Courses: Marketing Business Development
Marketing Operations 2.0: Tactical Discipline to Strategic Vision	2.0
Power of Market Research	2.0
Product Management: Moving the Product to Market	2.0
6. Required Certificate Review
Business Administration Certificate Completion Fee	None

Certificate Inquiry Form

Speak to a student services representative.

(408) 861-3860

extension@ucsc.edu

Recommended Course Sequence

Flexible course sequence

Courses may be taken in any order provided the prerequisites are met.

Substitutions

Two formerly required courses for this certificate have been suspended and will need to be substituted.

For Microeconomics, Introduction (4 units)—Please substitute Business Economics (2 units). You do not need to make up the 2-unit difference for the Business Administration certificate. You do not need to make a formal request for this substitution or complete any paperwork.
For Management and Organization, Principles (2 units)—You can substitute Applied Organizational Behavior and Coaching (3 units) and apply the extra unit toward the Business Administration certificate. You do not need to make a formal request for this substitution or complete any paperwork.
You may also take one elective outside the certificate curriculum, if you receive prior approval from the Academic Services Department.

To receive your certificate

Upon completion of the course sequence you may request yourBusiness Administration Certificate Completion Review.

Professional Development

Many courses qualify for credit for professional organizations.

Advisory Board

REYNOLD LEWKE, M.S., M.B.A, LLB, a corporate attorney, litigator, author and business advisor, runs his own strategic talent management consulting and executive search firm. He has worked with startups and global Fortune 100 companies integrating engineering, business and legal perspectives. He offers actionable insights into issues ranging from domestic and international contracts to products liability, technology, human resources, and construction. Reynold, a certified personal trainer and Ironman coach with more than 22 Ironman distance races behind him, also offers career coaching services for professionals and fitness and personal training services. He has served as chair of the Business Administration certificate program since 2020.

Certificate Program Advisory Committee

PHIL BROTHERTON, B.S.M.E, M.B.A
Principal, Phil Brotherton Consulting
Former Vice President of NetApp Cloud Group
Network Appliance

CRAIG HARRISON, B.A
Professional Speaker, Trainer, Consultant and Coach
Founder, Expressions of Excellence!™
Instructor, Business Administration Program
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

LARRY O'CONNELL M.S., M.A., M.B.A
Instructor, Business Administration Program
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

REYNOLD LEWKE, M.S., M.B.A, LLB,
Chair and Instructor, Business Administration and Human Resources Programs
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

MARCELA RODRIGUEZ-RYSBEKOV, B.S
Regional Sales Manager, Web Global Services Providers
Cisco Systems

WENLEI SHAN, M.B.A
Instructor, Business Administration Program
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

BENJAMIN WANG, MD.
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer
NeVap, Inc

Declaring Candidacy

You can enroll in a certificate program any time during your studies.

Once you create your student account, you can enroll in a certificate program. Although you can enroll in a program at any time, the benefit of enrolling early is that it locks in your certificate requirements. This means that even if program requirements change, the requirements to complete your certificate will remain the same for you.

You must enroll in the certificate program before enrolling in the Certificate Completion Review.

You have a total of five years to complete all necessary courses in a certificate program.

All the necessary units in a certificate must be completed within a five-year window. The clock begins on the first day of your first course in the certificate program. For example, if you started a course on Sept. 5, 2017, you would have to complete all of the required units in this certificate by Sept. 4, 2022.

Enrolling in a certificate program does not trigger the beginning of the five-year window. It begins the first day of the first course that applies to a certificate program.
The Certificate Completion Review process does not have to occur within the five-year timeframe.

Grade Requirements

Please note that only letter grades of C- or higher may be applied to a certificate, and in some programs, students may have more stringent requirements. Students in most employer- and government-sponsored payment programs, such as workforce development, as well as international students on F-1 visas, need to maintain a B average to meet their requirements. Personal Financial Planning students have additional grade requirements for individual courses to attain a certificate.

See Grading and Credits Policy for further information.