Small Business Entrepreneurship

Students learn to create, market and maintain their own business in this four course sequence which includes writing a business plan, working closely with entrepreneurial and experienced business coaches, and interning in their field of choice.  Topics include:  principles, practices, and strategies of small business in wholesale, retail, or service operations as well as marketing principles and practices applicable to developing a successful business.

Projected Student Enrollment Each Year:  31 or more

Projected Number To Complete This Certificate Each Year 1 - 10

This certificate of achievement is a Career Technical Education (CTE) program that prepares students to work in the emergent market of entrepreneurship. Much data suggests that by the year 2020 a majority of Americans will be working in Small Business Entrepreneurship or the "Gig Economy." Objectives: 1. SLO 3 BMGT 153. A student will be able to develop/ create an effective business plan (Active ) 2. SLO 1 BUS 152.Social Media Plan. As a team, students will be able to develop a content strategy and sample content as part of a social media plan for a real (or imagined) client. (Active ) 3. SLO 3 ACCT 110. Integrate, master, and apply accounting theory, concepts and practice with accounting software. (Active) 4.COOP ED. Students will work with business coaches in an internship in their chosen field to successfully launch or improve their business.

The Small Business Entrepreneurship certificate, “Self-employment Pathways in the Gig Economy,” prepares community college students to become freelancers and independent contractors in the growing Gig Economy. The four courses in this Certificate of Achievement stack up to the two-year General Business degree, so students will have already met the requirements of four of the courses in the two-year General Business degree when they complete this stand-alone Certificate of Achievement.