Entrepreneurship (ENT)

Includes individual components of entrepreneurship and its implications for society. Special emphasis is placed on decision-making and problem solving in society through an understanding of opportunity recognition, economic/financial models, value creation, and basic entrepreneur-related concepts.

This course focuses on the skill of creativity and broadening one's curiosity, skills that can be applied in any life context. Students learn opportunity recognition and gain confidence in exploring unfamiliar courses of action.

This course guides students through identifying real-world problems, validating ideas through customer discovery, and refining solutions. Students develop growth strategies, pricing models, and feasibility reports while deciding whether to persevere or pivot their ventures.

This course examines a wide range of individual differences that are associated with an entrepreneurial mindset. Topics such as passion, confidence, and professionalism are discussed in the context of career development beyond starting a new venture.

This course examines the strategic, operational, and financial issues confronting ventures from a variety of disciplines as they grow and gain traction.

Providing a unique context through which parts of the entrepreneurial process can be understood and practiced. Skills such as improvisation, storytelling, and organization help students communicate a vision and attract resources when making a pitch for seed funding.

New ventures require founders to create organizational structure around administrative and record keeping tasks. This course will teach students how to correctly establish a new venture and leverage data to make more informed decisions.

This course explores the foundations of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and Blockchain technology, with a focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in web3.

Entrepreneurs need data to navigate through uncertain, ambiguous, and interdisciplinary environments. In this course, students will learn to improve their decision making skills through gathering, interpreting, and manipulating data.

This course concentrates on developing knowledge of capital management in early-stage ventures, with a focus on financial capital: both equity and debt. Investor motives and behaviors are critical components of the course, especially as they relate to establishing contractual relationships.

This course overviews the application of entrepreneurship to drive social change and the creation of sustainable solutions to societal challenges. Students will explore the interconnectedness of economy, society, and the environment, and apply design thinking to real-world problems.

Building software visually, with no coding experience, opens a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs. The course topics include how to use low-code tools to develop mobile and desktop applications. Software for automating common organizational routines will also be explored.

Students use design thinking principles to develop physical, digital, and service innovations. Students will learn to communicate confidently and knowledgeably with engineers, manufacturers, or other related stakeholders.

The primary focus of this course is to develop students' technology skills. It is accessible for everyone, yet offers skillful students many opportunities for further growth. This course also broadly examines the role of digital technologies in society.

This course delves into the consequential early choices entrepreneurs make that shape their ventures' trajectories. Students develop practical frameworks for navigating these dilemmas while balancing personal aspirations with venture requirements, enabling them to make more informed choices in their entrepreneurial journeys.

The legal environment for entrepreneurs is covered in significant detail. Some of the topics include protecting intellectual property, contract development, and handling disputes. This course also examines issues beyond the legal system that could be better analyzed with an ethical framework.

Individual study and research with faculty direction and supervision.

This self-directed course requires students to create a launch plan for a new product or service idea. Small group instruction and mentorship is provided, however, students are expected to demonstrate disciplined progress towards their goals.

Courses centering around topics of current interest or of special interest to students.

Students work in professional settings relevant to the discipline, connecting academic training with professional practice. Students are required to set professional goals, document their internship, and produce a written account of their experience.

An exploration of how to create a new venture examining the fundamental ideas related to opportunity in entrepreneurship. Lean launch methodologies are stressed as a way to recognize and evaluate opportunities for future exploitation in a viable business model.

In-depth coverage of how to finance and fund a startup business. The course centers on a model that includes business model creation, financial analysis. cash management, funding alternatives, investor pitching, alternative financing, and exit strategies. We examine the various options that a company has for financing at all stages of its life-cycle, including seed rounds. The course addresses the full range of financing options including angel, venture capital & debt financing.

A hands-on experience in entrepreneurship that will cover the process of completing the first steps towards creating a business and establishing legitimacy with stakeholders. The course focuses on translating insights of a validated venture idea into a viable business model with established value propositions.

An in depth examination of start-up monitoring and control that ranges from the basics of accounting and bookkeeping to advanced metrics specific to a optimizing a new venture. This class focuses on the importance of utilizing data and metrics to move a startup to the revenue and growth stages of development.

A practical training on developing high-fidelity minimum viable products and/or services. Students will be exposed to the important aspects of product, service, and software design and how they impact business model success.

Covers the core skills needed for identifying opportunities that can lead to successful new ventures regardless of the individual's skill set. The course takes an in depth look at the critical importance of differentiation in successful new ventures and how individuals utilizing an entrepreneurial mindset can leverage their individual human capital and resources to identify, evaluate, and exploit opportunities.

This self-directed course requires students to create a launch plan for a new product or service idea. Small group instruction and mentorship is provided, however, students are expected to demonstrate disciplined progress towards their goals.

Independent study in which students must have a contract with an instructor. Students and faculty will work together to outline the goal of the independent study with the student's specific outcomes and learning objectives in mind.

Includes topics of current interest or of special interest to students or faculty.