American Samoa Community College MOODLE
6 Week Session
This course provides an overview of the American free enterprise market system. The course introduces students to entrepreneurship and the business process, with a balanced overview of the interwoven nature of basic business discipline and principles. Topics to be explored include business formation and practices, small business management, market dynamics, economic systems, competitive strategies, business ethics and social responsibilities. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Maria Magalasin Luardo
This course strengthens the theory and applications of commonly used business calculations such as simple and compound interests, face value, maturity value, and present value computations by using the 10-key calculators and electronic-displaying printing calculators. Emphasis will be placed on hands-on skills through the completion of the Assimilation Package (18 hands-on jobs). (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Faofua Faatoafe
This course introduces students to the contemporary issues of ethics, morality, and social responsibility that face the business community, both locally and globally. Students completing this course will be able to define various theories of the ethics, appreciate the importance of ethics framework for analyzing and resolving real-world ethical issues, and to gain the knowledge and critical thinking skills to analyze and resolve ethical issues in business and management. The course will examine such components as the nature and purpose of professional standards and codes, the role played by individual character in professional life, and the demands and pressures encountered by professionals within their institutional settings. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Faofua Faatoafe
This course provides an introduction to both the theory and applications of statistical methods used for a description and analysis of business problems. The course develops a student’s analytical skills by introducing basic statistical concepts and techniques, including probability and sampling, descriptive statistics, inference, regression and one- way analysis of variance. The course will rely on business case scenarios for practical applications and conclude with how statistics are used in society and business. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Lam Yuen Lam Yuen
This course will cover introductory micro and macroeconomic principles as factors determining the general level of employment, inflation, and other key economic topics relevant and a concern to all people and their way of life. To be examined in the context of practical economic topics will be an analysis of markets, price and production. Current economic problems will be used to illustrate these concepts. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Lam Yuen Lam Yuen
This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing, including price, product, place, and promotion of consumer goods. Marketing strategies, channels of distribution, marketing, retailing, research, products promotion and advertising, and consumer attitudes as they relate to marketing will be studied. Students will learn that marketing is not just advertising, retailing, or selling; it encompasses a myriad of concepts, techniques, and activities all directed toward distribution of goods and services to chosen consumer segments. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Maria Magalasin Luardo