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ASN 5991 - Asian Cultural Values in Business
REL 6395 - Seminar in Asian Religion
This course examines traditional and modern values of Asian culture that have been applied to contemporary business and entrepreneurship to achieve excellence in the professional sphere. Sources of Asian values range from Confucian family-based morality and Zen Buddhist monastic discipline to Art of War strategies and the Bushido (Samurai) code of honor.

FIN 6936 - Entrepreneurial Finance (Special Topics)
Focuses on developing an understanding for the finance-related issues associated with an entrepreneurial or small-company setting. Its goal is to educate future entrepreneurial managers (both general managers and financial managers) in the tools and skills (financial and non-financial) required to successfully manage the financial challenges of a small company or start-up.

GEB 6116 - Advanced Business Plan Development
EIN 6325 - Advanced Engineering Business Plan Development
These cross-listed courses are designed to help you develop an effective written implementation plan for a new business venture. The key to this class is that a "business plan is more than a strategic plan". The key differences are both implementation and possible review by "outsiders." This course deals with the critical decisions and action steps that entrepreneurs must make in both planning and executing a new venture.
Pre-requisite EIN 6324 or MAN 6805.

GEB 6118 - Starting and Growing Your Professional Practice
The course is directed at the creation of sustainable and profitable professional practice for those in law, accounting, architecture, nursing, engineering, medicine, or any other profession. This class is specifically designed for those students graduating with a professional degree or those with a professional degree who wish to start their own private professional practice usually focused on providing a professional service.

MAN 6805 - Entrepreneurship
EIN 6324 - Technology Entrepreneurship
These cross-listed courses serve as an introduction to and overview of entrepreneurship. This course deals with the critical factors of initiating and managing new growth-oriented ventures. The course focuses on the "doing of entrepreneurial activities" rather than on mere "facts about entrepreneurship."

MAN 6038 - Family Owned Businesses
Addresses the special issues facing family-owned and managed firms and gives appreciation for the special dynamics in such firms and how to be professional managers in such organizations.

MAN 6057 - Managing Innovation
These cross-listed courses provide an integrated view of management and technology. The combination of theory and practice addresses the challenges of globalization, time compression, and technology integration.

MAN 6086 - Product and Service Development
EIN 6392 - Product Design
These cross-listed courses present the systematic process of product and service development in conjunction with the evolution of team projects, culminating (with a business plan class) in a venture capital and funding forum for new high-tech start-ups. Adopts a business and management emphasis to create world-class products/internet services.

MAN 6678 - International Entrepreneurship
The course is an introduction to entrepreneurship in international contexts and its role in economic development . This course deals with the critical factors of initiating and managing new growth-oriented ventures within non-US environments in both developed and developing nations. The course focuses on the "doing of entrepreneurial activities" within various economies globally from technology based opportunities in well developed nations in the European Union to low technology ideas in rural areas of Central America.

PUR 6607 - Advertising and Public Relations Management
Operations and objectives of integrated advertising and public relations activities and programs utilizing case studies on budgeting, ethics, media/planning relations, promotions, and direct marketing.

PUR 6806 Integrated Communications Strategy
Advanced study in developing, planning, and evaluating strategic integrated communications programs and campaigns.

AMH 5935 Entrepreneurs in the US
The history and impact of technology and innovation on American Society, politics, and culture from the 18th century to the present.
Please contact Professor Lipartito for the latest information on this course.

AMH 6906 Technology and American Society
Focusing on entrepreneurism, course covers American ideals (capitalism, individualism, upward mobility, the free market, independence) in historical context. Examines why these ideals have changed, colonial era to the present.
Please contact Professor Lipartito for the latest information on this course.