Entrepreneurship: Opportunity to Impact

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How do you know if entrepreneurship is right for you? Don't have an idea today but want to work for a start-up? Focuses on developing an entrepreneurial mindset to prepare students for creating or participating in new ventures in the future, whether that is right now or after graduation. While this course does not contain the secret entrepreneurship code or the instruction manual for entrepreneurial success, it does provide a solid foundation of theory and practice that can set a budding entrepreneur on the right path. Students learn foundational entrepreneurship theories, participate in field activities where those theories are being put to the test, as well as learn to critically analyze their own ideas and other venture opportunities. Utilizes a mixture of teaching mediums including readings, videos, guest speakers, simulations, case studies and assignments completed as an individual and in teams.