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Entrepreneurship Career Pathways Certificate

The Entepreneurship Career Pathways Certificate is an exciting new program that will help prepare you to start and effectively operate your own small business. The program builds skills in many areas critical to the success of a small business owner such as written and verbal communication, marketing, business law, accounting, financial management, and small business development. Many aspects of starting and running a small business are encompassed in the certificate from initial evaluation of a business opportunity and developing a business plan, to managing the small business and recordkeeping.

The certificate has the flexibility to meet your individual needs. Almost a third of the required curriculum is made up of electives where you can chose from an entrepreneur's dream list of subjects including international business for those interested in taking advantage of global market opportunities, to web page design, to communicating with employees and technical report writing.

 

Required curriculum for the certificate is as follows:

Course # Course Name Credits
Term One
BA101 Introduction to Business 4
BA180 Business Math I 3
BA206 Management Fundamentals 3
BA280C Cooperative Work Experience 2
Approved Elective 3
Term Two
BA150 Developing a Small Business 4
BA211 Principles of Accounting I 3
BA226 Business Law 4
BA280C Cooperative Work Experience 1
Approved Elective 3
Term Three
BA223 Principles of Marketing 3
BA250 Managing the Small Business 3
Approved Electives 6
Total Credits 42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Approved Electives:

Course # Course Name Credits
BA165 Customer Service 3
BA203 Introduction to International Business 3
BA207 Introduction to E-Commerce 3
BA222 Financial Management 3
BA238 Salesmanship 3
BA239 Advertising 3
BA249 Retailing 3
CIS125D Microcomputer Applications-Database 3
CIS195 Authoring for the World Wide Web 4
SDP109 Elements of Supervision 3
SDP112 Communicate Effectively in Workplace 3
SDP208 Human Resources for Supervisors 3
SDP223 Employee Appraisal and Development 3
WR121 English Composition 3
WR227 Technical Report Writing 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information, contact:
Bill Armstrong
Phone: (541)440-7854
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