John B. Goddard School of Business and Economics 337 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 Department of Business Administration 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 Owners 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 start up. 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 . 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 start up 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 - FIN Department of Business Administration FIN 1010 - Personal Finance Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem, Online] Spring [Full Sem, Online] Summer [Online] Personal and family budgeting, installment buying, borrowing money, buying a home, life and property insurance, personal investment, and retirement and estate planning. FIN 2300 - Introduction to Investments Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] A study of investment opportunities, mechanics, analysis, risk, and risk management at the introductory level. This course is designed for non finance majors and will not be accepted as a substitute for FIN 3300 . Weber State University 2013-2014 Catalog