Students

Graduate/MBA Courses

Accounting and Management Information Systems

ACCT&MIS 838: Emerging Technologies and Electronic Commerce
Provide an understanding of the opportunities, potential threats and important issues surrounding electronic commerce and emerging technologies.

Business Administration: Finance

BUS-FIN 844: Entrepreneurial Finance

BUS-FIN 845: Private Equity

BUS-FIN 846: Venture Capital

Business Administration: Management and Human Resources

 

BUS-MHR 802: Managerial Negotiations
Exploration of the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts and their resolution.

BUS-MHR 825: Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Development *
Provides student experiences in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial concepts and provides the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial skills.

BUS-MHR 840: Leadership, Values, and Decision Making

BUS-MHR 890: Technology, Entrepreneurship & Commercialization

 

BUS-MHR 839: Advanced Strategic Analysis

 

BUS-MHR 848 Technology Strategy & Innovation Management

* Required course for MBA Entrepreneurship Track

Undergraduate Courses

Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics

 

AED ECON 402: Principles of Agribusiness Marketing (4)
Study of specific problems of marketing food and fiber products with emphasis on structures and institutions facing agribusinesses in domestic and international markets.

AED ECON 460: Human Resource Management in Small Businesses (3)
Human resource planning, job analysis, organizational structure, recruitment and selection, training, motivation, leadership, communication, compensation, and evaluating employee performance in context of small businesses. Prereq: Jr. standing.

Business Administration: Finance

 

BUS-FIN 590: Entrepreneurial Finance (4)
Explores the financial needs of entrepreneurial ventures. Considers financial challenges facing entrepreneurs, framing the issues, evaluating the needs, developing financial strategies and structuring deals.

Business Administration: Management and Human Resources

 

BUS-MHR 290: Entrepreneurship  (5)**
Assesses economical, sociological, and psychological foundations of entrepreneurship and its impact on society. Examines perspectives, characteristics of entrepreneurs, and the role of personal creativity in entrepreneurship.

BUS-MHR 390: Personal Creativity and Innovation (4)
Explores how people, places and practices foster human creativity. Students will discuss: What is creativity? How can I become more creative? How can we lead others to greater creativity?

BUS-MHR 490: New Venture Creation (4) **
Examines the creation of businesses in the face of uncertainty. Analyzes market opportunities, entrepreneurial strategies, innovative business concepts, business plans and financing new ventures.

BUS-MHR 491: The Accelerator: Planning the Entrepreneurial Venture  (4)

BUS-MHR 590: Leading High Performance Ventures (4)
Explores key managerial practices for leading successful growing businesses. Examines issues in human resourses managment, business law, financial management, competitive strategy and organizational design.

BUS-MHR 691: Entrepreneurship; Value Creation in the Social Enterprise (4)
The purpose of this course is to (1) help you understand the theory of social enterprise and to be able to develop a business plan for a non-profit, (2) help you develop your interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, (3) offer you the opportunity to interact with individuals in a non-profit organization and (4) help you develop your ability to function as a member of a creative team charged with solving problems and creating business plans.

Business Administration: Marketing & Logistics

 

BUS-M&L 490: Entrepreneurial Marketing (4)
Focuses on marketing concepts of entrepreneurs leading growth-oriented companies.Typically these are small, young companies with ambitions to become major enterprises.

 

Business Administration: Operations Management

BUS-MGT 494: Foundations of Operations for Entrepreneurs (4)
Group study projects in selected areas of management sciences.

Family Resource Management

CS FMRES M 567: Families in Business (3)
Explore family business topics, including family dynamics, conflicts and relationships relative to business formation and growth, strategic management, professionalization, and succession.

Industrial and Systems Engineering

ISE ME 682: Fundamentals of Product Design (4)
Principles of concurrent engineering, design for manufacture and assembly, and lean manufacturing; integration of design and manufacturing; design prototyping.

Psychology

PSYCH 662: Psychology of Creativity (3)
A critical examination of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems related to the systematic study of creativity; special attention to background factors related to creative behavior.

Sociology

SOCIOL 464: Work, Employment, and Society (5)
Analysis of work organization; control and authority relationships in the workplace; comparative studies of work and labor movements; industrial decline; automation.

 

** Required course for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Minor