Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Certificate (ENSI)
Catalog Addendum Effective: Fall 2024
Entrepreneurship is more than just starting a business. Entrepreneurs transform the world around us through risk-taking actions and value-creating organizations. They drive enormous social and economic changes at local, national, and global levels.
The Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Certificate of Competency has three main aims:
1. to create focused pathways through a curriculum that allows students to supplement work in their academic interests with an understanding of entrepreneurship and social innovation;
2. to leverage, expand, and enhance the academic and career pursuits with an entrepreneurial spirit; and
3. to promote an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Determine and explain how business enterprises create value for society.
- Identify and evaluate the creation of positive impact on society through commercial and social enterprises.
- Identify, develop, and evaluate opportunities for new businesses.
- Design a practical business plan for a new business.
- Identify and explain key legal concepts and laws relevant to new businesses.
The College will award a certificate of competency to students who complete an approved credit-bearing career program that requires less than 30 credits. General education courses may not be required for programs that have less than 30 credits. The student must have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. At least six credit hours must be in courses that are awarded grade points.
| First Semester | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| BUS 100 | Introduction to Business | 3 |
| BUS 128 Introduction to Entreprenesurship * | 3 | |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ACC 111 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 215 or BUS 218 |
Human Resource Management or Labor Relations |
3 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Third Semester | ||
| BUS 219 Entrepreneurship II Seminar * | 3 | |
| Select one of the following | 3 | |
| Business Communication 1 | ||
| Principles of Management | ||
| Principles of Marketing | ||
| Legal Environment of Business 2 | ||
| Hours | 6 | |
| Total Hours | 18 | |
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New Course
- 1
Students who wish to take BUS 130 are required to take ENG 100 and CS 100.
- 2
Students who wish to take BUS 243 are required to take ENG 100.