COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course gives you the principles needed to successfully plan and launch a business. If you’re interested in creating for profit businesses to make money or a non-profit organization to serve the community, this course will give you the information and skills necessary to help you to succeed. Our Students learn to think, act and execute like experienced Entrepreneurs, and learn that it is imperative that you break the mold of the traditional 9 to 5 paradigm, which can be detrimental to their success. You will learn the benefits of entrepreneurship, the pros and cons of self-employment, how to develop your business ideas, plans, mission and vision, how to communicate in the workplace, how to manage and lead your staff, and how to match all of these areas with your personality and abilities.
Course Objectives:
In this course, students will learn about the following topics:
- Entrepreneurs and inventors
- Products, services, and units of sale
- Producers and consumers
- Strong and weak economies
- Capitalism and competition
- Pros and cons of self-employment
- Entrepreneurial characteristics
- Parts of a business
- Factors of success and failure
- Business ethics, ideas, and opportunities
- Organizing a business
- Profit, value, and loss
- Scarcity and the law of supply and demand
