John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics 353 BSAD 4500 - Entrepreneurship Credits: (3) Typically taught: Spring [Full Sem] Integration of various functional areas of business as they relate to evaluating, creating, planning, and managing new business ventures. Prerequisite: Business Foundations; BSAD 2899 ; MKTG 3010 ; MGMT 3010 , MGMT 3200 . BSAD 4620 - Executive Lectures Credits: (l) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] This course is designed to acquaint the students with successful executives, their personal styles and philosophies as leaders, and the keys to their effectiveness. The course may be repeated for credit to a maximum of two credit hours. Credit/No credit. The format is a series of weekly one-hour lectures delivered by guest executives. BSAD 4680 - Small Business Diagnostics Credits: (3) Senior level class. Diagnostic analysis of small business issues through the use of case studies. Students will work both individually and in teams to analyze the health of sample small businesses, identify issues and develop recommendations for remediation. Case issues will cover abroad spectrum of typical small business issues and require the student to evaluate based on all areas of business operations. Research, written reports and presentations are required. Prerequisite: Business Foundations; BSAD 2899 ; Senior-level student; Instructor approval. BSAD 4780 - Strategic Management Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Online] A. capstone course for seniors designed to facilitate integration of the knowledge gained in earlier courses. Focus of the course is on the total enterprise. Emphasis is on crafting well-conceived strategies and on successful strategy implementation. Prerequisite: Business Foundations; BSAD 2899 , BSAD 3200 , SCM 3050 , FIN 3200 , MGMT 3010 , MGMT 3200 or NTM 3250 , MKTG 3010 , Senior standing. BSAD 4800 - Independent Research Credits: (1-3) Directed research and study on an individual basis. May be repeated until a total of 4 hours credit is accumulated. Prerequisite: Business Foundations; BSAD 2899 ; Senior Standing; Written Instructor Approval. BSAD 4850 - Business Administration Study Abroad Credits: (1-3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] Summer [Full Sem] This course is designed for students who wish to explore business administration theory and practice in countries other than the U.S. Students will study international business as offered through a partner university (or other university with department chair approval). Prerequisite: BSAD 2899 . May be repeated once up to 6 credits. BSAD 4920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes, and Special Programs Credits: (1-3) Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript. May be repeated 5 times with a maximum of 6 credit hours with different topics. Course Descriptions - ENTR ENTR 1001 - Principles of Entrepreneurship Credits: (l) This course explores the process and theory designed to help ideation become customer needs driven to buffer against startup failure. By the end of the course, students will have created, tested and updated a business model based entirely upon customer feedback and customer development methodologies as described in Business Model Generation and Start-up Owner's Manual textbooks. ENTR 1002 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship Credits: (1.5) This course outlines the differences between traditional business and the entrepreneurial venture. Students will also begin to understand the concepts of a business model and customer development via guiding texts — Business Model Generation [BMG] and The Startup Owner's Manual [SOM] at a much deeper level. By the end of the course students will understand the unique elements of the entrepreneurial venture and appropriate business models and customer development. Prerequisite: ENTR 1001 or Admission to GSBE. ENTR 1003 - Ideation and Customer Development: Testing Ideas with Customers Credits: (1.5) This course explores the process and theory designed to help ideation become customer needs driven to buffer against startup failure. By the end of the course, students will have created, tested and updated a business model based entirely upon customer feedback and customer development methodologies as described in Business Model Generation and Start-up Owners Manual textbooks. Prerequisite: ENTR 1001, BSAD 2899 or ECON 2899 . ENTR 1004 - Entrepreneurial Finance: Bootstrapping, Accounting & Survival Tactics Credits: (3) This course presents traditional and non-traditional financing techniques appropriate for the entrepreneurial business startup. Students will explore the application of corporate finance tools to new venture and private equity transactions including forecast simulations and the application of real options. The course will view finance from the entrepreneur, lender and investor's perspectives. By the end of the course students will be able to evaluate and apply a range of financial techniques for business start-up purposes. Prerequisite: ENTR 1001, BSAD 2899 or ECON 2899 . Weber State University 2014-2015 Catalog