Management: Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation Concentration, B.B.A.

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About the Management: Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation Concentration Bachelor’s Program

The entrepreneurship emphasis focuses on the creation of new value, wherever it can be found: new products, services, businesses, social enterprises, and corporate entrepreneurship. This emphasis prepares students for exciting careers in any organization that requires entrepreneurial thinking backed up by concrete skills.

Recommended Lower-Division Curriculum for B.B.A. All Majors

First Year

Fall

BA 1101 - Fundamentals of Business Professionalism 1 Semester Credit Hours
MATH 1330 - Introductory Mathematical Analysis I 3 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 1301 - Essentials of College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
Life and Physical Sciences 4 Semester Credit Hours* (Does not require a grade of C or higher, ENCO majors must take GEOL 1303 and GEOL 1101 .)
HIST 2300 - History of the United States to 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)

Total: 14

Spring

MATH 1331 - Introductory Mathematical Analysis II 3 Semester Credit Hours
ENGL 1302 - Advanced College Rhetoric 3 Semester Credit Hours
HIST 2301 - History of the United States Since 1877 3 Semester Credit Hours
Life and Physical Sciences 4 Semester Credit Hours* (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)
Creative Arts 3 Semester Credit Hours* (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)

Total: 16

Second Year

Fall

ACCT 2300 - Financial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours (Accounting and finance majors must achieve A or B.)
ISQS 2340 - Introduction to Information Technology 3 Semester Credit Hours
Language, Philosophy, and Culture 3 Semester Credit Hours* (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)
POLS 1301 - American Government, Organization 3 Semester Credit Hours (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)
Multicultural Course 3 Semester Credit Hours* (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)

Total: 15

Spring

ACCT 2301 - Managerial Accounting 3 Semester Credit Hours (Accounting majors must achieve A or B.)
ECO 2305 - Principles of Economics 3 Semester Credit Hours
MATH 2345 - Introduction to Statistics with Application to Business 3 Semester Credit Hours
POLS 2302 - American Public Policy 3 Semester Credit Hours (Does not require a grade of C or higher.)
COMS 2300 - Public Speaking 3 Semester Credit Hours
OR
MCOM 2310 - Business and Professional Communication 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Notes:

* Choose from core curriculum requirements. Life and Physical Sciences must include both a lecture and a lab.

Recommended Upper-Division Curriculum

Third Year

Fall

BECO 4310 - Applied Business Economics 3 Semester Credit Hours
(Or any upper-level economics course except ECO 3323 and ECO 4332 .)
FIN 3320 - Financial Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 3370 - Organization and Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
BCOM 3373 - Business Communication 3 Semester Credit Hours
MKT 3350 - Introduction to Marketing 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Spring

BLAW 3391 - Business Law I 3 Semester Credit Hours
ISQS 3344 - Introduction to Production and Operations Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 3375 - Entrepreneurship: New Value Creation 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 3376 - Organizational Behavior 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 3379 - Advanced Organization and Management 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Fourth Year

Fall

Group A 6 Semester Credit Hours
Group B 3 Semester Credit Hours
Non BA/Non ECO Elective 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4376 - Entrepreneurship: Discovering Entrepreneurial Opportunities 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Spring

MGT 4380 - Strategic Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
Group B 3 Semester Credit Hours
Free Elective 6 Semester Credit Hours
Non BA/Non ECO Elective 3 Semester Credit Hours

Total: 15

Total Hours: 120

Group A

Choose two courses from:

MGT 3390 - Perspectives on Entrepreneurship 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4370 - Consulting to Entrepreneurial Organizations 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4374 - International Entrepreneurship 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4377 - Family Enterprise 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4383 - Special Topics in Management 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4386 - Entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation 3 Semester Credit Hours
MGT 4388 - Change and Innovation Processes 3 Semester Credit Hours

Group B

Choose two courses from any junior- or senior-level business course provided it is not used to fulfill another requirement.