Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
The Entrepreneurship AAS program is designed for students who are interested starting their own business or buying a small business or franchise. The course work will provide students with the innovation, management, marketing, communication and financial skills required to successfully start and run a small business. The program will also give students a solid background in the theory, process and practice of entrepreneurship. Courses for the program are delivered in a mix of classroom and online formats.
Award Outcomes
Solve business problems using critical thinking and decision making techniques.
Demonstrate interpersonal and team building skills.
Demonstrate oral and written communications skills.
Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior.
Apply marketing concepts and strategies to business decision making.
Apply management concepts to business problems.
Analyze business problems using financial tools and concepts.
Demonstrate innovative thinking in the development of business models, products and services.
Apply operations concepts to solving business problems.
Career Opportunities
Starting or buying a business, or managing a small business is a solid career option for students from a variety of technical and skill backgrounds. This occupational area complements any other certificate, diploma or degree. Entrepreneurs work in virtually every industry in the American economy: finance, real estate, insurance, health-care, manufacturing, construction, automotive and retail industries. In recent years, the allure of entrepreneurship has increased, with the results that more people than ever before are choosing to operate their own business. 600,000 – 800,000 new business are created in the US every year, and small businesses provide almost 50% of all private sector jobs in the US.
Semester Sequence
Offered at Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie
Second Semester
| ACCT1000 | Introduction to Accounting | 3 |
| BUSN1140 | Business Law | 3 |
| BUSN2005 | Marketing Concepts and Strategies | 4 |
| PHIL2100 | Critical Thinking | 3 |
| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 4 | 3 |
Fourth Semester
| ACCT1135 | QuickBooks | 3 |
| BUSN2085 | Small Business Operations | 4 |
| BUSN2100 | Capstone | 3 |
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| Choose 3 credits from MnTC Goal Area 5 | 3 |
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| Choose three credits from MnTC Goal Area 9 | 3 |
MnTC Goal Area 4
A complete list of MnTC courses and Goal Areas that can be used to meet General Education requirements can be found at www.hennepintech.edu. The same course cannot satisfy more than one MnTC Goal Area requirement.
Graduation (60 credits)
This academic planning guide is a tool meant for students to discuss their schedule each semester with their faculty advisor. Some courses may be offered only once per year and only on one campus.
Semester listings reflect the recommended sequence. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the information herein is subject to change without notice.
6/24/2019 : BP 2516 / EP 2517