Entrepreneurship Certificate of Achievement

The Entrepreneurship Certificate of Achievement program is designed for students who plan to engage in entrepreneurship or who have already begun their own business. Completion of this certificate provides students with critical knowledge and skills for planning, starting, and operating a new business. The program provides valuable preparation in proven business practices and business ownership, operation, and management issues, such as market focus, measures of success, and development of a clear and useful business plan. Career paths and occupations for students with entrepreneurship skills include business development, e-commerce, finances, marketing, and management, across industries. Completion also demonstrates persistence and achievement and may support job applications.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this program will be able to:

Identify the fundamentals of legal systems, and technological, social, ethical, global, and political forces affecting the development and operation of businesses.
Describe the functions of business in society including the major concepts related to business ownership and the factors that influence them; competition and marketing; and the systems, technologies, and operational controls through which business organizations operate.
Describe starting and building businesses, including governmental, financial, human resource, and others when planning or building a new product, service, or business.
Communicate clearly and effectively, orally and in writing, in the business workplace environment.
Describe entrepreneurial risks and challenges inherent in each major component of the entrepreneurial business.
Evaluate a product, service, or business in terms of a clearly defined proposed target customer and the need that is being satisfied.
Research and develop a business plan for all aspects of the creation and maintenance of a business.
Prepare business documents and reports using Internet and other research sources accurately and appropriately and using appropriate visual representation in the form of graphs and/or tables.
Behave appropriately in a workplace, following business policies and procedures and directions and using independent judgment as needed and using decision-making skills to solve problems.
Complete hands-on projects to develop computer-based solutions to business problems.
Identify the various forms of business entities and identify distinguishing characteristics among them.
Apply principles of business management to analyze and propose solutions to business problems.
Compare various methods of acquiring business financing.

REQUIRED CORE (19.5-21.5 Units)

Course ID	Title	Units
ACCT 235	Entrepreneurial Accounting	3
BUS 1 or	Introduction to Business	3
BUS 1H	Honors Introduction to Business	3
BUS 13 or	Legal Environment and Business Law	3
BUS 13H or	Honors Legal Environment and Business Law	3
BUS 106	Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship	2
BUS 103 * or	Business English	3
ENG 1A * or	Principles of Composition I	4
ENG 1AH *	Honors Principles of Composition I	4
BUS 104 *	Business Communication	3
BUS 160	Entrepreneurship	3
BUS 196 or	Workplace Success Skills	1
CWE 180	CO-OP-ED Business	1
BUS 237	Financing the Entrepreneurial Business	1.5
TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICATE:		22.5-24.5
Restricted Electives (3 Units)
BUS 10 * or	Business Statistics	3
MATH 10 * or	Introduction to Statistics	3
PSYC 44 *	Statistics for Behavioral Sciences	3
BUS 102	Oral Business Communications	3
BUS 105	Social Media Marketing	3
BUS 106	Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship	2
BUS 109	E-Commerce Marketing	3
BUS 150	International Business	3
BUS 223	Human Resource Management	3
CWE 180	CO-OP-ED Business	1-3

*Course has a prerequisite, corequisite, limitation, or recommended preparation; see course description.

Entrepreneurship Certificate of Achievement

Program Student Learning Outcomes

TOTAL UNITS FOR THE CERTIFICATE:

22.5-24.5