Designed for students who are planning to start or manage a small business or start-up. The entrepreneurship minor provides a sampling of courses in accounting, finance, management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
What will I learn?
The entrepreneurship minor provides a sampling of courses in accounting, finance, management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
MGT3075
Entrepreneurship
An introductory study of how to start a small business. Students examine one’s readiness to start a business, survey legal processes and models of business formation, and engage in marketing, finance, and operations assessments and planning.
MGT2271
Management
This introductory course surveys the essential theories of business management and their application to maximize workforce performance. Topics investigated include general management responsibilities such as organizational planning, utilizing metrics, and motivating work teams.
ACC2101
Principles of Financial Accounting
A study of fundamental accounting principles, financial statements, and the analysis and reporting of business transactions.
MKT1085
Principles of Marketing
The structure, function and behavior of marketing systems are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the impact of social and economics environment and on the process of the decision-making aspect of marketing.
MGT3276
Operations Management
All businesses require some form of operations to deliver a product or service to a customer. For most companies, operations is a complex network of complex processes and systems. This course studies the key operations, including product design, environmental design, facility management, management systems, payroll, HR, finance and marketing. Students will build operational systems to manage a particular area of an operation, identify problems, and determine strategy for improved performance in the area of operation. This class is an application-based class that draws on content from management, finance, and accounting courses.
MGT3275
Small Business Management
A study of specific managerial concerns in a small or start-up business. Students learn the value of small business in the U.S., the attributes of a successful manager in such organizations and the legal aspects of establishing and running a business. The functional areas of business, including marketing, operations, facilities, accounting and human resources are explored. The course requires students to develop operational systems in order to process data, providing critical information for problem-identification and solving. This is a hands-on, application class.
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