Curriculum & Outcomes

Business

Associate of Applied Science Degree, DTA/MRP

90 Credits

The Business DTA/MRP Associate of Applied Science degree is a pathway for students planning to prepare for various business majors at universities in Washington. This agreement meets all the requirements of Washington’s Direct Transfer Agreement. This agreement is between the baccalaureate institutions offering a bachelor’s of science or bachelor’s of arts in business administration including accounting, management, and management information systems. Baccalaureate institutions that are party to this agreement are: Central Washington University (CWU), Eastern Washington University (EWU), University of Washington (UW; all campuses), Washington State University (WSU; all campuses), Gonzaga, Heritage, Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), SMU, Seattle Pacific University (SPU), Seattle University (SU), and Western Washington University (WWU).

Business DTA/MRP graduates will:

• Describe and discuss the measurement of economic performance, national income accounting, aggregate supply and demand, fiscal policy, money creation/Federal Reserve system, monetary policy, inflation, and unemployment

• Analyze resource and income distribution, assess consumer and business behavior, and evaluate price determination and production cost

• Recognize the social and behavioral nature of law and the structure and function of the American legal system and to assess and articulate basic legal principles and processes

• Analyze and evaluate accounting information as part of the control, planning, and decision-making processes

• Describe and discuss functions and their graphs, linear programming, matrices, combinatorics, logic, statistics, and the applications of math to finance and economics

• Recognize applications of differential and integral calculus to business problems

• Demonstrate communication, intercultural appreciation, teamwork, information and technical literacy, and critical thinking

• Meet Social Science, Humanities, Written Communication, and Quantitative Reasoning distribution area outcomes

Lake Washington Institute of Technology does not offer every course each quarter. It is the student’s responsibility to consult the class schedule and work out an individual schedule with a counselor or adviser. Any developmental coursework a student may be required to complete may increase the program length.  

Admission Dates: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Program Requirements

¹Communication Skills: 10 credits

Quantitative Reasoning: 10 credits

MATH	145	Finite Mathematics for Business	5
MATH&	148	Business Calculus	5

²Natural Sciences: 15 credits

Please select 10 credits from the list below:

Social Sciences: 15 credits

Please select 5 credits from the list below:

³Business Course Work: 20 credits

⁴Humanities: 15 credits

Please select 15 credits from the following list - (no more than 10 credits per discipline area)

(no more than 5 credits per world language)

⁵Electives: 5 credits (Select courses appropriate for intended major and intended bachelor’s institution.)

** Effective Summer Quarter 2012 **

¹ To meet EWU requirements, the 2nd English Composition course must be equivalent to EWU’s English 201 – College Composition: Analysis, Research, and Documentation.

² Students intending the manufacturing management major at WWU should consult WWU regarding the selection of natural science courses required for admission to the major.

³Regarding Business Law or Introduction to Law – these are two distinct subject areas with minimal (approximately 20%) content overlap.

University with a requirement:

• University of Washington (all campuses)-- Course Equivalent to: Introduction to Law (MGMT 200) (POLS& 200 Introduction to Law)

• EWU, CWU, WSU (all campuses), WWU, Gonzaga, SMU, SPU—Course Equivalent to Business Law (BUS& 201 Business Law)

• Heritage, PLU, SU, and Walla Walla University do not require a lower division Business Law course and agree to accept the course taken as part of the degree as a lower division elective, but generally not as an equivalent to the course required at the upper division:

⁴ Students intending the international business major should consult their potential transfer institutions regarding the level of world language required for admission to the major. Five credits in world language may apply to the Humanities requirement.

⁵ Fully transferrable as defined by receiving institution.