2017-2018 Academic Catalog

Apr 19, 2024

2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENT 264 - Community Based Entrepreneurship

This course provides an opportunity for students to expand their creativity and business acumen while helping a local not-for-profit, social purpose organization or start-up organization to launch a real business venture. Student teams will be partnered with staff or volunteers from a local organization to develop a business model that has potential to support its ongoing operations. Students will collaborate over the course of the semester with their partner organization and receive ongoing instruction and mentoring from the course instructor about the business model. This course is an excellent opportunity to build a stronger community by linking students with emerging local organizations and successful business leaders in a collaborative process to help solve social problems. This course is offered periodically and students can receive entrepreneurship minor capstone credit upon successful completion.

Prerequisites: MGMT 100 (The Art and Science of Management) and either ENT 215 (The Art of the New - Entrepreneurship) or ENT 245 (Social Entrepreneurship)

Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2016/ Periodically