While the course is not comprehensive, it will put you in a better position to learn additional information that can be better tailored to your specific needs and interests. Whether you want to start a new business, purchase an existing business, or seek employment in a small business, the goal of this course is to give you some of the fundamental underpinnings from which you can continue to build your own personal database involving entrepreneurship and small business management issues. This course is offered during the Fall Semester only and would optimally be taken in the Fall Semester of your junior year. This course focuses on the requirements, decisions, and policies required for the development of a new business. Attention is directed to opportunity assessment, organizing, financing, profit planning, forecasting, direction, and control.
Students also develop the major components of the business plan.
Entrepreneurship offers students opportunity for self-employment and the creation of their own business. Students also need the ability to identify new opportunities to create value and translate imagination into action. Focus will be placed on the most current and successful entrepreneurial theory as well as practical aspects of creating a new business venture. This course is offered in both the Fall Semester and the Spring Semester . The course would normally be taken in either the Spring Semester of your junior year or the Fall Semester of your senior year.