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Business and Accounting
Certificate & Degree programs

Earn a certificate in as little as 12 months | Classes start January 23

Learn the skills you need to pursue a career in business, finance, management, and more!

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Gain knowledge and experience that helps you land a job, get promoted, and level up in any field—not just business.

Business courses can greatly enhance your career and life over the long term because you learn foundational skills such as communication, teamwork, management, and much more.

Pathways in Business

  • Accounting
  • Business Management
  • Business Information Worker
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Medical Office Specialist
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Earn your first certificate in as little as 12 months

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Put in another 12 months and you can earn your degree!

What courses should I start with?

GNBUS 10

Intro to Business

Learn about the many activities of businesses operating in a changing global environment. Examine how economic systems, technology, legal factors, business strategies, human relations, trade barriers, finance, and culture interact to affect U.S. business policies and practices. Learn how businesses achieve organizational goals and maintain their competitive advantage. Explore entrepreneurship, organizational design and structure, leadership, human resource management and organized labor practices, organizational communication, innovation, marketing and consumer behavior, e-business, legal issues, accounting, and financial management can improve business practices.

GNBUS 56

Business Math

Learn entry-level office procedures and how office professionals function in the workplace. Plus skills such as workplace communication, ethics, customer focus, and teamwork. The focus is an introduction to skills that are relevant to success as an office clerk, administrative assistant, office manager, or other business information worker roles.

BCA 15

Business Computer Applications

Develop beginning skills using the Microsoft Office suite. Basic features of Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint are covered. Learn basic Word document creation, formatting, and editing. In Microsoft Excel, you'll study spreadsheet design, creation, revision, formatting, and problem-solving for Excel. Microsoft Access activities will introduce fundamental relational database design and management. Learn all about creating PowerPoint presentations.

Plus dozens more courses!

Talk to a counselor after you apply to help pick your classes and build an education plan.

Take your education as far as you want.

Each class and certificate builds on the next. If you start on a certificate today, you'll already be on your way to earning your degree.

Accounting Pathway

  • Accounting Certificate
  • Accounting A.S. Degree
  • Business Administration
    ADT Transfer Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Bookkeepers
  • Payroll Clerks
  • Fiscal Analysts
  • Accounts Payable/Receivable
  • Financial Planners or Advisors
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Business Information Worker Pathway

  • Clerical Certificate
  • Administrative Assistant Certificate
  • Business Information Professional
    A.S. Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Office Clerks, Coordinators, or Shift Managers
  • Administrative or Clerical Assistants
  • Customer Service Representatives

Business Management Pathway

  • Business Management Certificate
  • Business Management A.S. Degree
  • Business Administration ADT Transfer Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Office Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Public Relations, HR, and Marketing Analysts
  • Customer Relations and Sales Reps

Accounting Pathway

  • Accounting Certificate
  • Accounting A.S. Degree
  • Business Administration ADT Transfer Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Bookkeepers
  • Payroll Clerks
  • Fiscal Analysts
  • Accounts Payable/Receivable
  • Financial Planners or Advisors

Business Information Worker Pathway

  • Clerical Certificate
  • Administrative Assistant Certificate
  • Business Information Professional A.S. Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Office Clerks, Coordinators, or Shift Managers
  • Administrative or Clerical Assistants
  • Customer Service Representatives

Business Management Pathway

  • Business Management Certificate
  • Business Management A.S. Degree
  • Business Administration ADT Transfer Degree

Prepares you for jobs as:

  • Office Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Public Relations, HR, and Marketing Analysts
  • Customer Relations and Sales Reps
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Entrepreneurship

  • Entrepreneurship Certificate

Prepares you to be an entrepreneur, work for a company, or run a small business

Medical Office Specialist

  • Medical Office Specialist Certificate

Prepares you for jobs to work as medical office managers

Business Computer Applications

  • Business Computer Applications Basics Non-Credit Certificate

Teaches you the basic computing skills needed for entry-level business jobs

Why take a business class at Woodland Community College?

EXPERIENCED FACULTY

Learn from experienced professors and instructors that have worked in the field.

ONLINE & EVENING CLASSES

Most courses are available wherever you are and work around your schedule.

EARN COLLEGE CREDIT

With every class, you'll be earning credits that can help you transfer to a 4-year university.

MEET ONE OF YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Annette Lee

Annette leverages her long and varied experience in high-tech, logistics consulting, and start-ups to help you learn all of the "ins and outs" of running a business of your own.

As an arts enthusiast, Instructor Lee owned and operated Konocti Dance Academy which she founded in 2007. Prior to teaching and serving as Executive Dean, Annette was a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young LLP focused on supply chain projects in the Bio-Tech industry. At AMD she developed a strategic procurement consortium aimed at improving efficiency and reducing cost for companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. and National Semiconductor. She has also held Program and Product Management positions at Spin Media Network Inc. and Sun Microsystems where she provided strategic direction and overall management for B2B e-commerce applications. As a FedEx Freight Product Manager, she led the development of portfolio products to extend the reach of FedEx services into the lucrative China market.

Annette Lee Business Instructor

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