Students willfocus on generating ideas based on creativity,
opportunity identification, feasibility studies, start-up activities, early
stage strategies, and new initiatives within corporate environments. Students
have unique opportunities to be involved in business partnerships and to find
creative solutions to real business problems while completing their degrees.
Learn how to...
start a new company
manage a family business
create an entrepreneurial niche in a
corporate environment
find creative opportunities
turn your ideas into marketable innovations
find the money to pursue creative
opportunities
market new ideas and inventions
ENTP 150 - Overview of Accounting - three credit hours:
Introduction to financial information generated by typical business organizations, with special emphasis on the use and interpretation of this information in managerial and financial decision-making processes by entrepreneurs.
Enrollment priority given to ENTP minors. May not be substituted for ACC 200.
ENTP 150 will be waived for students who have credit for ACC 200 and ACC 201. Same as ACC 150.
ENTP 300 - New Venture Creation - three credit hours:
This course presents an overview of entrepreneurship. During the semester we will examine entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset; learn to recognize and create opportunity; develop and test the business concept; assess the industry and analyze risks associated with customers, markets, financial considerations and legal concerns. Students will come away with a clear understanding of what entrepreneurship is and how they can use the entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in their chosen career.
PREREQ: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
ENTP 333 - New Venture Management - three credit hours:
As an integrative course in management, this class emphasizes managing growing companies in an increasingly professional manner while maintaining a spirit of Entrepreneurship. Topics will include strategic and operational planning, financial planning and measuring and controlling performance; managing innovation, marketing the entrepreneurial organization, managing human resources in rapidly growing firms, and exit strategies.
PREREQ: ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 497 - Senior Portfolio:
Writing the Business Plan - three credit hours: Students will study the basic components and varied audiences for the business plan. Each student will write a business plan and will be required to present the plan to a panel of business leaders.
PREREQ: ENTP 150, ENTP 300, ENTP 333 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 375 - Marketing Strategies for Entrepreneurial Businesses - three credit hours:
A strategic marketing process approach will be illustrated emphasizing the design of entrepreneurial marketing plans; the innovation and new product or service process; implementation of product, price, place and promotion goals; and, methods of evaluation and control.
PREREQ: ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 376 - New Venture Financing - three credit hours:
Many new ventures and innovation fail due to inadequate funding. Major sources of funding for new ventures are reviewed and evaluated in this course; including: venture capital, informal investors, banks, investment banks, suppliers, buyers and the government. Some of the topics for this course include valuation, "guerilla financing," joint ventures, strategic alliances, private placements, IPOs, ESOPs and management buyouts.
PREREQ: ENTP 150, ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 377 - Family Business Management - three credit hours:
This course provides an overview of the importance of family firms and the unique problems and opportunities they face. Family businesses represent the interests of two distinct, yet overlapping institutions: the firm and the family. Actual family business case studies are used to examine these issues. Family business owners serve as invited speakers.
PREREQ: ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 378 - Emerging Enterprise Law - three credit hours:
This course involves the study of legal issues surrounding emerging enterprises, including, new venture formation, choice of legal entity, financing, siting and leases, intellectual property, debtor-creditor relations, contracts and employment law.
PREREQ: ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 405 - Corporate Entrepreneurship - three credit hours:
This course is designed to explore the concepts of change, innovation, and corporate venturing. Issues associated with entrepreneurial behavior and the development and implementation of programs to encourage Entrepreneurship (creating value through innovation) in midsize and large firms are explored.
PREREQ: ENTP 300 or by consent of instructor.
ENTP 496 Field Studies in Entrepreneurial Firms - three credit hours:
This course involves supervised study of an organization in one of two forms. Students may work in student groups to establish a relationship, identify a strategic problem or question, design and execute a study, and report implementable recommendations to a regional firm or work in a supervised internship in an entrepreneurial business.
