Entrepreneurship Skills - COA

This certificate includes courses that prepare students to discover and develop internal and external characteristics of entrepreneurial success, create a strategy for taking advantage of opportunity, and to take action by starting a business or work as self employed individuals or within a company.

There are no prerequisites or enrollment limitation

SLOs

1. Discuss the elements of an entrepreneurial or growth mindset and is relationship to organizational success.
2. Explain the relationship between problem identification and business opportunity.
3. Discuss the issues that entrepreneurs should consider when evaluating different legal forms of business organization
4. Describe the steps involved in developing a business model around a business idea
5. Students will be able to write a complete business plan

Completers are projected at 10 COA annually

The courses and certificate are career technical education and will help students prepare to start their own small business or give them the entrepreneurial skills to gain employment with a start up or corporation. More students are pursuing a 4 year degree and will transfer  with a goal of earning a degree with an emphasis in entrepreneurship.

There is a demand for individuals to develop and learn entrepreneurial skills whether a business major or another discipline.  This program begins with the development and understanding of an entrepreneurial mindset to take action on opportunities.   Small business start up is a driving force in the economy and students will learn a multitude of business skills to launch a small business or apply those skills to employment.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
ENTR 200	Pathways to Success	1	S1
ENTR 201	Creativity and Idea Generation	1	S1
ENTR 202	Innovation and Opportunities	2	S1
ENTR 212	Market Validation and Research	1	S2
ENTR 221	Money, Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs	2	S2
ENTR 222	Business Structure and Legal Requirements	1	S3
ENTR 223	Building the Entrepreneurial Team	2	S3
ENTR 241	The Successful Business Plan	2	S4
ENTR 117	Social Media Marketing	3	S4
ENTR 160       OR	Entrepreneurship: Managing Your Business	3	S3
ENTR 211  and  ENTR 224	Business Models: The Design and Delivery of Value Operations Management for Entrepreneurs	2 1	S3 S3

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