Intro to Entrepreneurship

4.0 credits

Available to second semester 1st Year students with the idea that early exposure to entrepreneurship will generate more entrepreneurial activity during the students college careers. The course will explore the entrepreneurial process and examine the factors that lead towards entrepreneurial success. We will also examine the skills and behaviors necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. Students gain the knowledge, skills, concepts, and strategies relevant for start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs. A purpose of the course is to present the basic concepts and tools of business analysis, and to instill the methods of crafting a well-conceived business model. The student will be called on to probe, question, and evaluate all aspects of a potential ventures external and internal situation. He or she will learn to tell the difference between winning business models and mediocre models, and become more skilled in spotting ways to improve a ventures strategy or its execution.