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Creating and operating a new business
involves considerable risk and effort. The path to entrepreneurship,
self-employment and owning and managing a business can begin at any time by
happenstance or by design. This specialization is designed to provide students
with the tools and information required to recognize, analyze and evaluate
entrepreneurial opportunities. Courses in this specialization present both the
content and the process of entrepreneurship.
Students can customize their entrepreneurship elective courses to specifically
meet their career goals and objectives. This structure allows the involvement of
many qualified experts with a specialized interest in topics most critical to
the entrepreneur.
The following elective courses are available in this specialization:
Entrepreneurial Plan (3)
Overview of entrepreneurial principles and processes. Teaches planning and
innovation techniques useful for starting or acquiring a small business and
writing a comprehensive business plan for such a business.
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Entrepreneurial Growth Opportunities (3)
Examines processes of creativity, creative problem solving, opportunity finding,
discovery, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship in the start-up and small
business environment. Cultivates the initial skills required to engage in these
activities and make them a part of your daily personal and professional
regiment. Work with a real project, business or start-up to demonstrate your
ability to cultivate creative and innovative concepts, ideas, methods, processes
or devices.
Servant Leadership & Entrepreneurial Thinking (3)
Servant leadership and entrepreneurship are closely related concepts with
overlapping areas - leader’s principles, values, beliefs, ethics, creativity and
innovation. Many entrepreneurs have the potential to transform organizations and
cultivate servant leadership characteristics. Examine interrelated
characteristics of servant leadership and entrepreneurship to further cultivate
and develop servant leadership characteristics and apply them in the daily
leadership and management of organizations.
Small Business Management (3)
Explores the unique opportunities and challenges of small business management
from a hands-on perspective. Introduces the basic processes associated with the
delivery of consulting services to a business client. Understand the management
and operations of a small business enterprise and obtain experience as a
business researcher, strategic planner and consultant to a small business.
International Entrepreneurship (3)
Consists of a series of seminars by current importers and/or exporters on how
import/export works. Identify an individual international trade opportunity and
be personally counseled in applying the skills learned from the seminars to
bring that opportunity to fruition.
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