Entrepreneurship

Minor in Entrepreneurship - 4 Units

The School of Business Administration, through the Joseph C. Prince Entrepreneurship Program, offers an Entrepreneurship minor open to all undergraduate majors. The minor prepares students to develop business ideas, formulate business plans, evaluate firms for investment potential, and manage ongoing start-up enterprises.

Course List
Code	Title	Units
Required Courses
ENTP 301	Creative Problem Solving	1
ENTP 305	Entrepreneurial Leadership: An Introduction	1
Elective Courses
Select two from the list below, of which one must be ENTP		2
Any ENTP course at 300/400 level, except ENTP 397
ACCT 424	Principles of Business Valuation
BLAW 407	Business Law I
BSAN 360	Project Management
BSAN 481	Social Media Analytics
CINF 301	Web Application Development
COMM 325	Organizational Communication
CREA 250	Arts Entrepreneurship
CSCI 221	Software Development I
CSCI 321	Software Development II
DIGA 221	Graphic Design
DIGA 365	Electronic Music
DIGA 398	Advanced Digital Arts Studio
FENT 355	Governance and Succession Planning
INTL 450	International Entrepreneurship
JOUR 331	Multimedia Reporting and Storytelling
MKTG 315	The Marketplace and Consumers
MKTG 441	Digital Marketing
HRMT 308	Human Resource Management
MUSC 300	Career Skills for the Entrepreneurial Musician
SALS 230	Professional Selling and Communication
BSAN 382	Web Development
Total Units		4

ENTP 190. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

ENTP 285. Independent Study. 0.5 or 1 Units.

ENTP 290. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

ENTP 301. Creative Problem Solving. 1 Unit.

The class is designed to prepare the student in the use of creative thinking tools and a mindset equipped to explore possibilities and create options to establish a competitive advantage in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment.

ENTP 305. Entrepreneurial Leadership: An Introduction. 1 Unit.

This course introduces the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship. As successful entrepreneurs are also successful leaders, the course helps students identify their personal values and how to relate those values to leadership within a new venture. The course includes sound academic theory, success stories, case studies, exercises, and class discussion.

ENTP 307. Managing Innovation. 1 Unit.

Organizational design refers to the way that an organization structures and aligns its people and resources. Students will construct an organizational design by developing and testing key assumptions using the lean start-up methodology and business modeling practices. A business model is a logical and internally consistent representation of the design and operations of a business, capturing the essence of how it will be focused and demonstrating how an interrelated set of decision variables will be addressed to create, deliver and capture value. Prerequisite: MGMT 305 or ENTP 305 or SOBA 202.

ENTP 315. Launching Your New Venture. 0.5 Units.

Repeatable up to 4 times. The focus of this course will be to address the process of launching a new venture from ideation stage to market. Depending on the idea, the student may not be prepared to launch at the end of the semester, but should have made considerable progress toward that end. Students in the class will also be prepared to participate in external new venture competitions at the local, regional, national, and international levels. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and application completion.

ENTP 353V. Social Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

This course focuses on Stetson's Social Justice Value. Do you want to change the world? Social entrepreneurship is about convening human and financial resources to develop a sustainable organization with the objective of doing good in society. Students will examine the topic from the societal, ethical, financial and managerial perspectives. The pedagogy will consist of case studies, field experiences, and readings. Join the revolution! Junior Seminar.

ENTP 385. Independent Study. 0.5 or 1 Units.

ENTP 390. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

ENTP 395. Teaching Apprenticeship. 0.5 Units.

ENTP 397. Entrepreneurship Internship. 0.5 or 1 Units.

This course provides students with the opportunity to intern with either an entrepreneurial company or with a company that consults entrepreneurial organizations. Students will present their personal learning goals, objectives, and action steps to the faculty prior to being placed with a host company. Near the completion date of their internship each student will provide the faculty a comprehensive personal evaluation of what was learned during this experience and how well they satisfied their initial personal goals and objectives. This course is a part of the Joseph C. Prince Entrepreneurship Program. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Internship Orientation: Some majors or internship courses may require completing the internship orientation before starting your course. This orientation is offered asynchronously via Canvas. Please contact your Faculty Internship Course Instructor for details.

ENTP 399. Prince Entrepreneurship Studies Seminar. 1 Unit.

This course focuses on the threats and opportunities associated with the world of the entrepreneur. Particular attention is paid to the importance of concepts such as entrepreneurial innovation, creation, decision-making, and the psychology of entrepreneurs. Students are exposed to and have the unique opportunity to dialog with successful entrepreneurs both inside and outside the classroom setting. Students will collaborate with faculty, entrepreneurs and other students to study a wide variety of current issues in entrepreneurship. This course is a part of the Joseph C.Prince Entrepreneurship Program. Prerequisite: junior standing.

ENTP 405. Scaling Entrepreneurial Firms. 1 Unit.

The focus of this course will be to address the greatest challenge for a high growth firm--scalability. Scalability issues throughout the firm will be addressed including: change management, culture, leadership, human resources, financial, funding, marketing, strategy and business modeling. Prerequisite: ENTP 301 and ENTP 305. Offered in spring semesters.

ENTP 410. Prince Seminar: Entrepreneurial Leadership. 1 Unit.

This class focuses on entrepreneurial leaders and the experiences that have led to their success and failures. Guest speaker entrepreneurs will present their experiences to the class based upon specific entrepreneurship topics and engage in open discussion with the students regarding those topics. Concepts conveyed by the speakers will be expanded upon by the instructor before and after each presentation. Prerequisite: ENTP 305.

ENTP 450. International Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

This course introduces students to entrepreneurship in a global context, challenging students to explore and apply entrepreneurial management ideas, techniques and strategies especially applicable to the international and global environment. The course's content and design is structured to encourage the student to understand and apply decision making behavioral techniques consistent with an entrepreneurial way of thinking especially specific to the development considerations of enterprise (business), community and economic development in the context of global and international issues and concerns. Cross-listed as INTL 450.

ENTP 451. Launching a New Venture. 1 Unit.

Students will explore the process of launching a new venture from ideation stage to market. In this hands-on course, students will conceptualize a business idea, and evaluate its desirability, viability, and feasibility. Students will be expected to make measurable progress in advancing a business idea. Students will also be prepared to participate in external new venture competitions at the local, regional, national, and international levels.

ENTP 452. Venture Capital and High Growth Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.

The purpose of this course is to develop the student’s skills in opportunity assessment, feasibility analysis, and evaluation of early-stage businesses with high-growth potential. We will usually take the perspective of the investor, though we will also examine issues from the perspective of the entrepreneur. In addition, we seek to gain understanding into the documents which are used for investing, the methods by which high-growth start-ups are valued, how venture capital firms are managed, and common operational problems of high-growth start-ups. Prerequisite: ACCT 201.

ENTP 460. Entrepreneurship Lab. 1 Unit.

Students will either (i) continue their efforts to launch a new venture from ideation stage to market or (ii) further their skills in opportunity assessment, feasibility analysis, and evaluation of early-stage businesses with high growth potential.

ENTP 485. Independent Study. 0.5 or 1 Units.

ENTP 490. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship. 1 Unit.