Course Syllabus
Syllabus asynchronous ENT 315 SEC 09 Fall 2024 .docx
Course Description:
ENT 315 Entrepreneurial Mindset and Opportunity Recognition Credits: 3
This course teaches students how to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Students will utilize play, creative problem solving, design thinking, and creativity tools while developing skills to mitigate risk and recognize opportunities.
Innovator Mindset® (IM) is a measure of personal innovativeness, or one’s propensity to produce new value. We are all capable of being innovative, but some of us are more predisposed to value creation than others. An instrument has been developed to measure how well we tap into this capability. Our mindset is our personal paradigm or operating system. It is how we think the world works and therefore how we believe we should think and behave in order to solve problems, overcome challenges, invent, discover and achieve success.
Great innovators are nothing if not imaginative. Imaginative in coming up with new ideas. Imaginative in finding ways to explore, test, and implement those ideas. Imaginative in how they observe the world around them and gain awareness. Imaginative in how they make sense of those observations. They do not just invent new possibilities. They synthesize creative ideas with fresh insights and a clear-eyed understand of the challenges they confront; of the problems they need to solve. Being imaginative is about developing hunches, intuitions and hypotheses about what customers want, what solutions will work, what will produce genuine value.
In ENT #315, we will explore Innovation that we reverse priorities and elevate imagination above knowledge. It demands that we recognize that our knowledge is always incomplete and therefore tentative and subject to revision. Yes, we need knowledge, but we also need to question it and find ways to move beyond that expertise. When we fail to do that, we remain locked into the status quo. As valuable as our expertise can be, it loses much of that value when we cling to it too tightly. That dampens our originality. It makes us resistant to new ideas. It leaves us with fewer options.
ENT # 315 is a course that will challenge the student to think beyond what they know, think, feel and using the entrepreneurial Mindset. It is not an easy course and is designed so that the student will do a substantial amount of writing and using critical thinking skills unlike any class they have taken in the past. The student will second guess their own decisions and learn how to make decisions based on nonstandard academic pedagogy. This course is a highly intensive writing class.
The course examines the nature of creativity, innovation and opportunity analysis to demonstrate how entrepreneurship involves the ability to identify market opportunity based on new ideas. Detailed attention is given to the entrepreneurial process: the concepts, skills, information, attitudes, alternatives and resources that entrepreneurs need to manage creativity in the process of creating something with tangible economic value.
This course is designed so that the students will need to be involved in the learning process. There is an extremely high level of outside reading coupled with papers that support this unique and diverse form of learning. What the student has to say is extremely important in this course and being able to present and articulate one’s thoughts in clear concise understandable language is vital for the success of the student. The student will be challenged beyond their own abilities.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Student Learning Outcomes
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Student Learning Outcomes:
Business Administration Entrepreneurship BBA |
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Student Learning Outcomes:
ENT 315 – Entrepreneurial Mindset and Opportunity Recognition |
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Business Knowledge: Students can demonstrate technical competence in domestic and global business through the study of major disciplines within the fields of business. |
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Explore the process: How to identify and pursue a business opportunity in either an independent or a corporate setting. |
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Critical Thinking Skills: Students are able to define, analyze, and devise solutions for structured and unstructured business problems and issues using cohesive and logical reasoning patterns for evaluating information, materials, and data. |
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Analyze the challenges: How to define fundamental issues related to starting a business and learn how to assess the risks, problems, and rewards in the venture process. |
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Communication Skills: Students are able to conceptualize a complex issue into a coherent written statement and oral presentation. |
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Bridge the gap between theory and practice. |
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Technology Skills: Students are competent in the uses of technology in modern organizational operations. |
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Learn how to transform ideas into action items. |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Students can demonstrate the fundamentals of creating and managing innovation, new business development, and high-growth potential entities. |
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Learn from your peers and role models how to design and execute strategies.
Think about how you can reach out to potential customers, partners, suppliers, and experts to develop a business model that has a valid feasibility. |
Course Content:
Entrepreneurship is an essential human behavior that underpins societal progress. Individual economic activity dominates day-to-day behavior in all but a few western societies and cultures today. Most of the world’s population depends on an entrepreneurial livelihood. Without an understanding of the role of the entrepreneur in economic formation and the conception of markets, a basic historical understanding of societal development is limited. Therefore, this course covers the many facets of entrepreneurship and its implications for careers, business, and society. It is designed to introduce the entrepreneurial mindset to students pursuing all University majors.
Textbook:
Textbook: OpenStax Entrepreneurship, by Michael Laverty and Chris Little.
- Access the textbook and associated resources at: https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship
- ISBN: 978-1-947172-69-2
Important Notes:
- Any student needing accommodations should inform the instructor. Students with disabilities who may need accommodations for this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC) [link to your college's DSPS website] early so that reasonable accommodations may be implemented as soon as possible. All information will remain confidential.
- Academic dishonesty and plagiarism will result in a failing grade on the assignment. Using someone else's ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness, is a serious offense known as plagiarism. Please see the YourCollegeName handbook for policies regarding plagiarism, harassment, etc. [link to your college's academic honesty policies]
- Any students with food insecurities or who need other support should contact their campus support services or visit the campus food pantry if available.
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