354 John B. Goddard School of Business & Economics ENTR 2001 - Sales and Marketing: Scaling a Successful Business Model Credits: (3) This course takes students who have successfully identified a start-up and teaches them the process of customer development, product development, business models and selling ideas to investors and customers. This includes examining a range of marketing techniques that are available for low to no cost. This course will look at alternatives to these traditional methods and students will, through hands on efforts, test these methods with real customers. By the end of the course students will be able to analyze business ideas for commercial viability. Prerequisite: ENTR 1004 . ENTR 3002 - Starting the Business Credits: (3) The aim of this course is for students to develop a business model that they will validate and iterate via paying and participating customers including managing budgets and spending plans designed to launch a business using actual dollars. Student teams will present their company at the beginning of the course as teams and will then use student start-up funds to launch their business. By the end of the course students will have launched a real startup business. Prerequisite: ENTR 2001. ENTR 3003 - Growing the Business Credits: (3) This course helps students take their start-ups business to the next level and accelerate the pace of customer validation and acquisition. This course will focus on launching the business from a student run start-up in a university setting, to a standalone company that can operate outside the confines of a college campus. Prerequisite: ENTR 3002 . Course Descriptions - 1ST 1ST 1100 SS - The Digital Society Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, lst Blk, Online] Summer [Online] The explosive growth of information technologies in general, and the Internet in particular, has irreversibly changed the way we work and play. This course prepares students to be knowledgeable citizens of cyberspace. It reviews our social institutions and how they are being impacted by information technology as well as the ways in which technology has been shaped by our social institutions. The course also provides hands-on experience with a variety of Internet tools. 1ST 2010 TE - Business Computer Skills Credits: (l) Typically taught: Fall [Online] Spring [Online] Summer [Online] This course prepares all students in business and economics to demonstrate current competence in desktop software commonly used in the business environment. The course covers computer competencies students will use in their business functional and cross-functional core courses, using more complex features of desktop software. It is followed by a hands-on exam that tests these competencies. Completion of 1ST TE2010 and an Information Literacy course (BSAD 2704 or LIBS 2704 , or LIBS 1704 , or NTM 1504) meets the WSU computer and information literacy requirement. Credit/No credit. 1ST 2015 - Introduction to Information Systems & Technologies Credits: (l) Typically taught: Fall [lst Blk] Spring [lst Blk] This course introduces the student to the role played by computer technology in business strategy and problem resolution. It also introduces information technologies used in information systems, including: software development, hardware, operating systems, network management, project planning, and career paths. Students will develop their academic 1ST program plan. Lecture series by 1ST Faculty. 1ST 2110 - Software Development I Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of software construction using a contemporary programming language. This includes the IDE (Integrated Development Environment), syntaxes of the language, basic programming constructs, data representation, object concepts, programming flow control and problem solving logic. Students will design, program and debug several business application projects. Prerequisite: MATH 1050 . 1ST 2410 - Information Systems Architecture Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This course provides students with a thorough grounding in computer hardware and operating system software, peripheral devices and contemporary information system architecture, including its structure, theory, and applications. 1ST 2720 - Data Structures and Algorithms Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] This course introduces the basics of specifying abstract data types, control structures and modularization, and using them to design programs. Commonly used data structures and algorithms are studied. Emphasis is made on choosing data structures and algorithms appropriate for solving given business problems. Prerequisite: MATH 1050 and 1ST 2110 . 1ST 2891 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-4) Open to all associate's degree-seeking students who have been selected to serve an internship in the information technology field or who have identified a special 1ST project Weber State University 2014-2015 Catalog