Graduate Certificate Requirements: Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate Requirements
The School of Professional Studies: Graduate, Online
The accelerated 7 week semester online Professional Studies graduate Entrepreneurship program offers a Graduate Certificate that requires 12 credits (4 courses) including:
Graduate Courses: 12 credits (4 courses).
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Transfer Credits: Our generous transfer policy allows students to transfer up to 90 credits required for a Bachelor degree, or up to 45 credits required for an Associate level degree as well as 6 credits of related graduate study. Credits presented for transfer must be from an accredited institution and a final course grade of a C or higher is required for undergraduate and a B or higher on the graduate level. Discuss with your advisor.
Prior Learning Assessments: Receive college credit for learning acquired through life experience. By evaluating a portfolio, we determine whether your experience qualifies as college level learning. Pay for one credit and receive three credits per course successfully challenged. You may challenge up to fifteen courses.
Credit by Examination: After enrolling in the School of Professional Studies, you may seek approval from your program to receive credit by examination. Contact your program's director or the Office of the Registrar for more information.
Transfer credit or credit by examination is acceptable in lieu of all Core Curriculum requirements except College Writing I (ENG-0160) and College Writing II (ENG-0170). These two courses are required of all students enrolled in the School of Professional Studies.
Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate (12 Credits)
MGT 6735: Business Plan I: Overview of the Entrepreneurial Adventure
Prerequisite: None
Students will apply the entrepreneurial concepts that they have learned throughout this course to create a detailed entrepreneurial business plan. The Kauffmann Program will continue to be utilized to review the multitude of issues related to the process, including marketing planning and financial planning.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
MGT 6740: Business Plan II: Marketing and Financial Planning
Prerequisite: None
Students develop the ability to analyze and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness of organizations through the use of appropriate information technologies. Technologies that influence organizational strategies, structures, risks and processes are emphasized. Ethical global and security issues are also covered.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
Choose 2 of the Following 4 Courses:
ACC 0200: Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: ACC 0101 Financial Accounting II
A course that focuses on providing information to managers through the use of internal applications of accounting. Topics include job-order costing, process costing, cost-volume-profit relationships, variable costing, profit planning, standard costing, flexible budgets, and overhead analysis.
Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)
MBA 6620: Decision Making Models and Strategies*
Prerequisite: None
This course develops competence and judgmental skills in using quantitative models for planning and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on recognizing situations where models can be used advantageously, when to work effectively with them, and how to make good use of them once they have been developed. Topics include, decision making under conditions of uncertainty, decision and risk analysis, forecasting, linear programming, modeling applications in marketing, manufacturing, finance and scheduling, and project management methods.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.
MBA 6705: Markets, Globalization and Culture*
Prerequisite: None
This course examines the interactive nature of the ever-changing marketplace locally, regionally, nationally and internationally is the focus of this course. Learners consider how the dynamics of these relationships provide inherent risks and opportunities, and most likely on unprecedented business opportunities for the future. The underlying current of this course is the question of how economics and political globalization affects culture and vice versa. Because there is a tendency to view globalization only within the process of economic advancement, this course intends to move beyond that singular conception and encourage learners to identify the cultural, political and social dimensions as well.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
*This course can be applied toward the MBA Master Courses requirement.
MGT 6745: Branding and Social Media for Entrepreneurs
Prerequisite: None
This course explores the ways in which entrepreneurs use social media to influence a brand. Using a mix of discussion, lecture, analytical writing, and engagement with social media products, this course allows students to practice positioning a business, reaching the public via the web, using social media activity to help shape a brand, using social media and brand-related terms, identifying the factors affecting a business’s choice in social media use, and connecting real-world networking to social media activity and branding. Course work includes analyzing the social media activities of other brands, identifying ideas from experts in the field, and using evidence to make intelligent decisions about social media and entrepreneurial endeavors.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
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Graduate Certificates
Set yourself apart by adding a graduate certificate to your master's degree. Students enrolled in graduate professional studies programs may choose from a diverse selection of graduate certificates to further enrich their educational experience. The graduate certificates may be taken as a stand alone option or, in some cases, achieved with additional courses embedded within the course of study. This additional focus provides specialized knowledge and experience tailored to your career and personal goals.
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