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Undergraduate Courses

MGTE30500 Intro to Entrepreneurship (Management Entrepreneurship Major) (3 credits)

BAMG30500 Intro to Entrepreneurship (Business Students) (3 credits)

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Are you interested in being the 'change agent' or 'new idea person' in an existing organization? Do you have the drive and desire to start your own business, but lack a commercially viable idea? This course will help you learn the skills and concepts necessary to do so. Students may choose to develop a market feasibility study for a new business concept or undertake an approved project on some aspect of entrepreneurship. The class includes entrepreneur guest speakers, case studies and activities designed to help students experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur.                  

Major requirement

BAUG30500 Intro to Entrepreneurship (Non-business Students)( 3 credits)                

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Are you interested in being the 'change agent' or 'new idea person' in an existing organization? Do you have the drive and desire to start your own business, but lack a commercially viable idea? This course will help you learn the skills and concepts necessary to do so. Students may choose to develop a market feasibility study for a new business concept or undertake an approved project on some aspect of entrepreneurship. The class includes entrepreneur guest speakers, case studies and activities designed to help students experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur.

BAMG30505 Microventuring I (business students) (3 credits)
This course will explore the innovative concepts, practices and strategies associated with microenterprise and microfinancing initiatives, engaging in the assessment and analysis of social models through the case study method.

BAUG30505 Microventuring I (non-business students) (3 credits)

IIPS30924 Microventuring I 3 credits)

This course explores the complex issues associated with microventuring, particularly as a vehicle for economic development, including the fundamentals of finance, marketing, and management through the development of a business plan.

BAMG30506 Microventuring II (Business students) (3 credits)

BAUG30506 Microventuring II (Non-business students) (3 credits)

IIPS30302 Microventuring II (Peace Studies students) (3 credits)

A comprehensive review of the fundamentals of finance, law, marketing and management will be presented.  In classroom and workshop formats, students will be teamed up to develop sound business plans with local entrepreneurs and compete for available seed capital to implement their business plans within the surrounding community.  Students take their skills, work with business owners, and become mentors.

BAMG30515 Topics in Entrepreneurship (Business Students) (1.5 credits)

BAUG30515 Topics in Entrepreneurship (Non-business Students) (1.5 credits)

This course examines actual business situations that entrepreneurs have faced in starting and growing successful businesses.  Subject matter covered will include cutting the lease deal, cash shortages, missed sales plans, new competitors, key employee turnover, managing growth and effective crisis management.  Students will have an opportunity to become directly involved with entrepreneurs and instructor through mini-cases on these and other topics through class discussions.  This course will help all aspiring entrepreneurs to learn how to handle critical business situations in growing an entrepreneurial business.

MGTE30520 Funding New Ventures (Management Entrepreneurship Major) (1.5 credits)

BAMG30520 Funding New Ventures (Business Students) (1.5 credits)

Every new venture needs money and other resources to begin operation. The best source of money depends upon the nature of your idea and its stage of development. We'll learn when it is best to go to your family and friends and when it is best to go to banks, angel investors, venture capitalists or other funding groups. Of course, you'll need to know how to position your proposal, how to perform venture valuation and a bit about the theory of entrepreneurial finance. When you finish this course you'll know who to approach to "show you the money" for your deal!

MGTE30510 Entrepreneurship:  Go to Market  (Management Entrepreneurship Major) (1.5 credits)

BAMG30510 Entrepreneurship: Go to Market  (Business Student) (1.5 credits)

So you have an idea and have developed a business plan. What do you do next to start your business? We'll learn the first steps you take that will lead to a successful launch rather than frustration and failure. When you finish the course you'll better understand how to start and grow your business and retain your competitive edge and advantage.

Major Requirement

BAUG30540 Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (non-business students) (1.5 credits)

BAMG30540 Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (business students) (1.5 credits)

This course provides an international experiential learning opportunity for undergraduate students.  The course examines how businesses are launched in different global contexts and includes discussion of global and national support agencies, market feasibility and cultural issues.  Students become involved in a practicum in which they provide consultative service to a startup or NGO in a less developed country setting.

Restrictions:  Department Approval Required

BAUG40580 Family Business Strategy (non-business students) (1.5 credits)

BAMG40580 Family Business Strategy (business students) (1.5 credits)
This course focuses on the unique challenges of family-owned, family-controlled businesses which graduates may very likely work in or consult to during their career.  Learning how successful family businesses survive generation after generation can give a person an edge in consulting, governing or managing in a family-owned business whether or not the business is owned by that person’s family.  Between 80-90 percent of businesses in the United States and Latin America are family-owned and family-controlled.  Over 80 percent of businesses in Europe and Asia remain family-owned and family controlled.  It is very likely that an individual may work with or consult to a family-owned, family-controlled business at some time in his or her career.  Approximately 67% of family owned businesses do not survive beyond the founding generation under the control of the founding family and about 12 percent make it to the third generation.  Leadership succession, estate planning, governance, strategy—all are major concerns for family-owned businesses.

MGTE40590 Entrepreneurship & Business Planning (Management Entrepreneurship Major) (3 credits)

A good business plan will generate interest and excitement about your business from investors, partners and others. We'll learn how to write a business plan that will discipline your thinking and help refine and focus your idea into a viable business model. After writing your business plan you'll have a much better idea whether your idea is practical and worthy of implementation. Even if you choose not to launch your venture, your ability to write a strong business plan is a very desirable and marketable skill.

Major Requirement

Graduate Courses

MGT70500 Entrepreneurship (4 credits)

MGT70509 Entrepreneurship (4 credits)

The goals of this course are to give students a broad understanding of the field of entrepreneurship and an introduction to the critical tools necessary to create a successful new venture.  This course is designed to simulate the “real-life” activities of entrepreneurs in the start-up stage of a new venture concept and to determine if a demand exists for their product or service.  In the past, several of these concepts have gone on to become actual businesses.  In addition, the course facilitates networking with entrepreneurs and other students who are considering becoming entrepreneurs.

MGT70520    Funding New Ventures ( 2 credits)

MGT70529    Funding New Ventures ( 2 credits)

This course investigates the various sources of funding start-ups, including bootstrapping, grants, angel investors, and venture capital.  Students will walk through the process of securing funding by examining term sheets, understanding due diligence, estimating capital requirements and preparing a financial plan, with pro-forma, income statements, balance sheets, and sources and uses of funds statements.

MGT70526    Launching New Ventures (2 credits)

MGT70525    Launching New Ventures (2 credits)

This course focuses on launching a new venture.  Topics to be examined include growth and cash management, sustaining the differentiated/competitive advantage of the venture, crisis management and new venture human resources issues.  This course will use an action learning pedagogy.  Students will be expected to apply what they learn in real business situations.

MGT70540    Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2 credits)

MGT70549    Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2 credits)

Entrepreneurs and micro-enterprises can be found throughout the world.  Understanding the role that entrepreneurial activity and micro-enterprises play in building economies is important to the understanding of international commerce.  Issues such as cultural and governmental influences on entrepreneurship, micro-lending and strategic alliances are examined in this course.  Upon the completion of this course students are prepared to serve as consultants to third-world micro-enterprises.

MGT70560    Venture Capital Fundamentals (3 credits)

This course examines how firms and universities can commercialize new technology and ideas.  Among other topics, the class considers the startup CEO (a/k/a “the management team”), the board of directors, proprietary rights (patents, copyrights, trademarks) and related transactions (licenses, etc.), the revenue model worth investing behind, venture (dilutive) funding, and non-dilutive funding (such as SBIRs).

MGT70580    Family Business Strategy (2 credits)

MGT70589    Family Business Strategy (2 credits)

Family-controlled businesses are characterized by challenges that threaten their continuity and distinct core competencies, resulting in unique competitive advantage.  The challenges are primarily the result of issues presented by the interaction of family, management, and ownership—particularly where the family wishes to perpetuate its influence and/or control from generation to generation.  This course will explore and analyze family business continuity challenges and management, family, and governance practices.  The final product of this course will be a continuity plan written by each student on their family business or, in rare and very unusual circumstances, a family business they have chosen for the course projects.  The text, readings (provided by the instructor and those discovered from student research), case studies provided by the instructor, guest speakers, and the class will provide the information necessary to analyze the family business and complete the projects.