Syllabus

Course Description:

The main focus of this course is to provide an introduction to entrepreneurship business opportunities and requirements as well as related career information and self-assessment opportunities. Covers entrepreneurship importance and concepts, characteristics of different types of business organizations and opportunities, entrepreneurial career examples, individual career assessment and planning, and entrepreneurial projects and simulations. Students will be required to complete a business plan that can be entered into competition at the Entrepreneurship Expo.

Required materials: Entrepreneurship ideas in Action, Thomson, Southwestern.

Course Methods: Lecture, notes, worksheets, and Business Plan project.

Grading System: The number of total points earned will be divided by the total points possible, producing a percentage, transferred to a letter grade using the following grading scale. Grades will not be rounded up to the next highest percentage. Semester grades will be determined by averaging the two-quarter grades. The final grade will be determined by averaging the four-quarter grades.

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