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Entrepreneurship

Course Code
ENTR 229  Credits
Title Start Your Own Business 
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Description This course is designed to provide students with hands-on experience and up-to-date information on how to start and set up their own business. It is co-taught by a team of experts and developed in cooperation with local business associations, the course will focus on the accounting, financial, legal, marketing and planning areas of setting up and running a start-up business. Same as MGMT 229



Course Code
ENTR 230  Credits
Title Entrepreneurial Finance 
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Description This course is intended for students who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge in those areas of business that lead to successful entrepreneurship and small business management. The focus will be on those financial issues and decisions of particular concern to sole proprietors, partnerships, family-owned business and small early-stage corporations. This will include the financial aspects of the relationship between the firm and its owners. 



Course Code
ENTR 231  Credits
Title Entrepreneurial Leadership and Organization 
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Description This course will define and develop leadership essentials for entrepreneurs and identify the best practices for building and managing an effective team for an entrepreneurial venture. In the process of completing this course, you will learn first and foremost about yourself as an entrepreneurial leader. We will then study practical actions for bringing others onto your team and how to inspire and energize the entire team to accomplish your vision/mission. We will study real world leaders, their mistakes and successes, and the best practices found in successful organizations in the 21st century. 



Course Code
ENTR 232  Credits
Title Entrepreneurial Marketing 
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Description This course provides an opportunity to develop conceptual knowledge of important entrepreneurial concepts. The focus will be on the processes involved in marketing of goods and services, including the marketing terminology, the marketing mix, consumerism, and marketing segmentation. The concept of market and marketing research and the impacts of competitive structures on marketing decision-making will be covered. 



Course Code
ENTR 233  Credits
Title Case Studies in Social Innovation 
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Description This course introduces students to the strategies and processes of social innovation and social change. Students will examine social innovation through case studies, best practice analyses, and relevant readings. 



Course Code
ENTR 309  Credits
Title Building a Workable Business Plan 
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Description This course provides an opportunity for the students to write a workable business plan. Students will learn the typical process of starting a new venture. The course will focus on how to turn an idea to an opportunity, and eventually to a business. Major points will include how to create, shape, recognize and seize a business opportunity, as well as the specifics of writing a business plan.