ENTR - Entrepreneurship
This course represents an introduction to pertinent topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation. Students will be exposed to numerous topics through guest speakers supplemented by readings and class discussion. Topics include conceptualization, creativity, patents, capitalization, venture formation, commercialization, market assessment, project management, and launch. A multidisciplinary perspective is emphasized.
This course will broaden students' views of careers and work in an increasingly global and diverse world. It provides students intellectual perspectives of entrepreneurship, and engages students in the search for knowledge regarding opportunity value and resource management. Basic analytical and critical thinking skills are developed for making reasoned judgments concerning organization creation.
This course is designed for students interested in learning about entrepreneurship. It examines entrepreneurship from different perspectives, and engages students in opportunity recognition, value creation and resource management. Basic analytical and critical thinking skills are developed for making reasoned judgments concerning venture creation. Students will learn how to improve the likelihood of success of business start-ups. Course will also be valuable for students interested in consulting with small businesses or launching new divisions in large businesses.
Students complete an entrepreneurial project or assignment for a business, non-profit agency, or other organization. Students should work 50 hours for each credit and complete course assignments integrating coursework and entrepreneurial experiences.
This course investigates the challenges of small businesses to gain understanding for some of the common processes involved in operating new ventures. Students will be exposed to the tools needed to navigate important financial, legal, marketing, and managerial decisions when creating and growing a sustainable small business. Students learn to develop the skills that will give them a unique advantage in a hotly competitive environment.
This course is an immersive and hands-on experience designed to guide students through starting and operating a functional online business. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge, practical exercises, and real-world application, students will actively apply entrepreneurial principles and strategies and navigate the various stages of launching and managing an online business, from conception to execution. They will be responsible for developing and executing a business plan, creating a user-friendly online presence, implementing effective digital marketing strategies, managing online transactions, and optimizing operations for growth and sustainability. By the end of the course, students will have developed a viable online business and gained valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in the digital marketplace and will leave the course with a tangible online business that can serve as a foundation for future entrepreneurial endeavors.
This course provides students with a unique cross-disciplinary, team-based course experience in the area of innovation. The focal point will be a real-life innovation problem sponsored by a company (or organization) on which students will provide presentations and a final report. The course is directed through ODU’s Strome Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The class draws students from all disciplines to collaborate with each other, faculty and community members as they co-design project-based solutions to pertinent social issues. Topics related to social entrepreneurship vary each year. Guided by distinguished faculty, students analyze their topic through in-depth classroom and field research, readings and off-campus trips.
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that uses design methods and tools to integrate the needs of people and organizations, the opportunities of technology, and the requirements for personal, organizational, and business success. The design thinking course introduces students to a robust process for understanding problems, ideation, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This course is facilitated using workshops where students will work in project teams in a design thinking innovation challenge.
The Entrepreneurship Capstone emphasizes practicing entrepreneurship through experiential learning, focusing on start-up activities. Drawing on a broad range of business disciplines, including Marketing, Management, Finance, and Accounting, students identify an opportunity and develop an industry analysis, marketing and finance plans, and a business pitch they present to investors and serial entrepreneurs.
This course is designed to help students enhance their personal and professional development through innovation guided by faculty members and professionals. It offers students an opportunity to integrate disciplinary theory and knowledge through developing a nonprofit program, product, business, or other initiative. The real-world experiences that entrepreneurships provide will help students understand how academic knowledge leads to transformations, innovations, and solutions to different types of problems. The course can be delivered either as an independent project for individual students or as group projects similar to those sometimes offered in topics courses.
Independent reading and study on a topic to be selected under the direction of an instructor. The study should lead to presentation of a paper at a conference or publication as appropriate.
The class draws students from all disciplines to collaborate with each other, faculty and community members as they co-design project-based solutions to pertinent social issues. Topics related to social entrepreneurship vary each year. Guided by distinguished faculty, students analyze their topic through in-depth classroom and field research, readings and off-campus trips.
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that uses design methods and tools to integrate the needs of people and organizations, the opportunities of technology, and the requirements for personal, organizational, and business success. The design thinking course introduces students to a robust process for understanding problems, ideation, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This course is facilitated using workshops where students will work in project teams in a design thinking innovation challenge.