2014-15-Undergraduate-Catalog

Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business • 241Requirements for the Entrepreneurship Major in the BBA Degree ProgramFaith Power, Interim Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Visiting AssistantProfessor of ManagementHalpin-Harrison Hall, Room 240, (540) 665-5615, fpower@su.eduEntrepreneurship is what powers the economy, and the entrepreneurship major providesstudents with the knowledge and tools to make ideas real.The entrepreneurship major offers a wide variety of opportunities for students to developboth fundamental and in-depth knowledge within the disciplines of management, marketing,finance, accounting, business law, information systems and technologies and organizationalbehavior to be effective entrepreneurs. Students will participate in comprehensive hands-onsimulations and learning opportunities that will promote the development of the knowledge,skills and abilities required to launch or assume leadership roles in entrepreneurial organizations.An Entrepreneurship major can prepare graduates for any of four types of work:• Corporate entrepreneurship (also known as intrapreneurship), where graduates work todevelop new operations or products for existing corporations;• Independent entrepreneurship, where graduates start their own for-profit firms;• Family business where graduates go into the family firm as new or future management; and• Social entrepreneurship where graduates start new or develop existing not-for-profit orcommunity service oriented firms.General Education Requirement (30 hours)Students must conform to the general education requirements of the university that specifycourse work over seven domains of knowledge. The following general education courseswill be taken by all business students and will fulfill 18 of the required 30 hours of coursework. Students should work closely with their mentor to ensure they complete the generaleducation requirements in a timely fashion.Course Title Credit HoursENG 101 Composition (Domain 1) 3MCOM 150 Principles of Public Speaking (Domain 1) 3MATH 101 Pre-calculus (Domain 3) 3BA 203 Statistics and Data Analysis (Domain 3) 3EC 211 Principles of Macroeconomics (Domain 6) 3EC 212 Principles of Microeconomics (Domain 6) 3Non-Business Elective Courses (24 hours)Course Title Credit HoursA course in either Sociology or Psychology 3Other 3-credit courses (not BA, EC, IST, or SM) 21