This course is designed to immerse students in entrepreneurship and innovation at FSU and expose them to the university?s areas of entrepreneurial focus. Through speakers, coursework, and visits to businesses and places of interest in the Tallahassee community, students are encouraged to explore their own interests and ideas and look for ways to solve problems and develop a project based on these interests.

This course applies the basic skills of Design Thinking to inspire innovation for students when making life decisions on campus and beyond. Design Thinking employs a three-stage process for developing solutions to the wicked problem of designing your life: Empathize, Ideate, and Build.

This course prepares students for the challenges of preparing for the interview process, as well as transitioning into an internship. This course focuses on various types of interviews, including Skype and phone interviews. This course addresses the importance of professionalism, leadership, proper dress attire, initiating conversations, and other important issues students must be aware of.

This course exposes students to the knowledge and skills required to be a successful entrepreneur. Topics include challenges of entrepreneurship, marketing and financial concerns, and management issues.

This course provides students with an overview of the foundations of the primary areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) from the entrepreneur?s perspective. Entrepreneurship activity is present in every primary area of STEM, and this course helps students obtain a high-level viewpoint of the STEM field as a whole so that they are better equipped to enter the workforce and/or create ventures within it in the future.

This course educates students about STEM commercialization, startups and technology transfer in a manner that equips them with knowledge "enough to be dangerous" in the real-world career setting. The course consists of classroom sessions as well as visits to local startups, small to medium businesses, research labs and other key players in the local area that exemplify the Impact Areas of STEM commercialization.

This course explores entrepreneurship in society by understanding how innovation can led to commerce and how commerce impacts our daily lives. Topics include the process of innovation, the nature of entrepreneurialism, the essence of Problem-Opportunity-Venture-Operations (POVO) model, the lean star-up business model, different kinds of entrepreneurship (commercial, social, scientific and artistic) and an introduction to competencies that have facilitated success in other entrepreneurs.

In this course, students focus on the most current thought, ideas, and industry practices relevant to entrepreneurship. The course provides an understanding of their business strengths and how to grow one?s firm as well as providing a hands on experience for a variety of topics, all which are relevant to the student?s success as an entrepreneur.

This course builds a foundation in marketing and sales for entrepreneurs to be successful. Students focus on Marketing Strategy, the four Ps of Marketing, Creating Sales Strategy, and Tactics for Making the Sale.

This course focuses on the special role of franchising as a form of entrepreneurship in the U.S. and international economies. Topics include success rates of franchisors and franchisees, advantages and disadvantages of franchising for both franchisors and franchisees, the process of franchising a business idea, and the process of selecting and working with a franchisor.

This course addresses the management of rapidly growing entrepreneurial firms. Topics include building an infrastructure, planning stage financing, managing under adversity, and managing a business with rapid growth.

This course covers special issues facing entrepreneurial and family businesses: choice of organizational form, business planning, tax and compensation planning, business valuation, and succession strategies. Time is also devoted to the unique challenges often found in family business context, such as dealing with family conflicts, how to motivate and evaluate employees when a mix of family and non-members are involved, and planning for succession.

This course provides students with a survey of the techniques and managerial tasks associated with developing and executing the financial reporting requirements needed for the management and financing of an entrepreneurial growth business from inception to financial scale.

This course introduces future entrepreneurs to the concept of financial thinking by utilizing tools and techniques which have been adapted for use in the realm of entrepreneurship. It is designed to inform students of various techniques of obtaining financing for new enterprises and to maximize the financial potential of their existing companies and is structured to train students in the financial management of entrepreneurial firms. As most are small growing firms, understanding finance requires an understanding of marketing, management, and planning functions of these firms.

This course introduces students to the role of managerial and financial accounting within the business environment. Students learn accounting terminology, elements of financial statements, the accounting cycle and the basics of preparing and interpreting financial statements. The course covers accounting concepts applicable to service companies and merchandising businesses, and includes business cases where the concepts will be put into practice to develop critical thinking to assist in decision making.

This course introduces Social Entrepreneurship, a movement that uses commerce to positively impact/solve social problems. This course is designed to inform students of the world's largest social problems, how to identify social problems, and begin the ideation process in the development of social enterprise.

This course provides students with the historical context of Social Entrepreneurship and examines the increasing role of Corporate Social Responsibility as a strategy to improve products, profits, and brand equity.

This course teaches methods common to human-centered innovation frameworks such as Design Thinking: empathizing, framing and reframing problems, ideating, prototyping and testing solutions. Students learn the process of developing products, services, systems and other solutions from the initial discovery of needs, to presenting a tested solution ready for deployment.

This course gives students the opportunity to critically assess current and emerging technologies. Students learn a defined process for efficiently and effectively coming up to speed on new technologies and how to think critically about the economic potential, societal impact, and ethical considerations of new technologies.

This course familiarizes students with the components and purpose of the business plan. This course aids students in understanding the structure and content of a business plan, including the reasons for the organization and substance of the work. The course guides participants in preparing their own business plan.

This course gives students the opportunity to run their own business in a simulated business environment.

This course helps students appreciate the purposes of the business plan and its potential audience. The course also aids students in understanding the structure and content of a business plan, including the reasons for the organization and substance of the work. The course guides participants in preparing their own business plan and aids them in its critical evaluations.

This course explores the different ways that new ventures can efficiently and effectively market and sell their products and services to customers. The course focuses on maximizing revenues in the early days of the venture while simultaneously managing costs associated with different delivery channels.

This course develops students' analytical skills by learning primary strategy concepts, tools, models, and techniques, and applying them to real-world business situations. Through this course, students develop an ability to think strategically about the choices facing an emerging, growing, or established venture, including value propositions, multifaceted decision-making, changing market patterns, competitive positioning, leadership, and entrepreneurial competencies of the organization.

In this course, students gain hands-on experience and industry information surrounding the world of computer applications and data science entrepreneurship. This modern form of entrepreneurship spans a large swath of technologies, methodologies and data sources that support a large venture creation ecosystem for entrepreneurs and other key stakeholders.

The course provides the budding innovator with a picture of the innovation?s architecture along with insights into what makes a great idea blossom or wither and die. The course equips students with the high-level framework and tools necessary to innovate from within, to be an intrapreneur, working within an institution or business to lead change. This course introduces the techniques and tools necessary to develop innovative ideas within these type of organizational environments.

This course is designed to expose students to the art of negotiation. The course instruction and activities prepare students for future negotiations in the small business environment. The class discusses both competitive and collaborative negotiation and how to prepare for a negotiation. Students are exposed to many successful negotiation strategies and taught how to determine which strategy meets the need of the current negotiation. The course also teaches students the importance of negotiating from a position of strength and how to determine and leverage the advantages they have.

This course exposes students to the various stages of starting a business--from start-up and growth to an initial public offering--while highlighting the legal preparations and pitfalls that go along with them. Students become familiar with the essentials of leaving your job, competing with a former employer, contract law, and bankruptcy, as well as the most current issues like clean energy, e-commerce, ethics, and sustainability in the entrepreneurship environment.

This course builds a foundation in new product development. Students create a new consumer brand including name, logo, product features, product package, labeling, recommended retail price and estimated cost of goods. Students work in product teams of 3-4 people and will pitch their new brand/product(s) at the end of the course. Students also work individually to develop a new product brief for a product line extension and a brand extension.

In this course, students to learn core skills and knowledge focusing on healthcare entrepreneurship including understanding the healthcare insurance system and how it works, a high level overview of venture creation in the healthcare industry, highlighting of different entrepreneurial ventures in healthcare, payer systems and healthcare professional networks.

This course builds a foundation in music industry entrepreneurship.

This course focuses primarily on the most current thought, trends, and industry tools relevant to e-commerce. Students explore the dynamic field of electronic commerce and what role it plays in an organization?s ?omnichannel? approach as well as leading B2B and B2C e-commerce solutions. This course gives a modern entrepreneur the base set of knowledge and tools to build an ecommerce presence.

This course allows students to learn about special topics in entrepreneurship that are not taught as part of the regular major or certificate programs in entrepreneurship. Special topics may include: environmental entrepreneurship, managing high growth, venture and angel capital, international entrepreneurship, and creativity in opportunity recognition. This course is repeatable to a maximum of six semester hours, as topics vary.

This course is designed to provide an experiential learning lab on how to perform business research and to apply that research to the Internship Sponsor. Students learn basic competitive intelligence techniques and utilize critical thinking skills to synthesize data and intelligence into a presentation that will provide a useful and practical result to the Internship Sponsor. These techniques can be applied to a wide range of industries.

This course is for students who wish to receive honors in the major by working on an honors thesis or project. This course may be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours.

This course provides the opportunity to experience a real-world business environment where opportunities, challenges, and critical decision-making are addressed through analytical, innovative, and capable enterprise business planning.

In this course, students develop an understanding of the foundations of entrepreneurial behavior, by providing a broad survey of entrepreneurship and leadership topics. Students are exposed to different types of entrepreneurship, and the course covers an array of topics that span from idea generation through venture formation, financing, scaling, and leading the entrepreneurial venture.

This course provides students with comprehensive knowledge of issues facing the entrepreneur as they impact the employer-employee relationship, and in turn, the overall success of the enterprise.

This course provides an overview of accounting and finance concepts that are necessary for entrepreneurs. Specifically, the course covers the fundamentals of accounting and finance, analyses, and interpretations of financial statements, forecasting and budgeting for business planning, control and decision making, starting new businesses, and business valuation methods.

This course examines the role of Environmental, Social, Governances (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a strategy to improve products, profits, and brand equity. Students examine numerous corporate initiatives that attempt to address these challenges as well as how they are being evaluated in the public eye.

The course spans the product development topics of competitive advantage, market, customer analytics, business process, financial sustainability, people and supply chain analytics.

In this course, students master the elements of product design, including a brand name, logo, tag line, product/service features, product packaging, recommended retail price and estimated cost of goods.

This course provides students with an in-depth survey and analysis of best practices, industry standard tools, and entrepreneurship applications of prototyping for commercialization of new offerings.

This course assesses system behaviors by examining the entire system -- including human, political, community, resource, environmental, and social processes -- to get a holistic view into how organizations and individuals often look at the world, assess problems, and design solutions.

This course aims to understand the social and sustainability goals with environmental, social, and economic perspectives, including corporate social responsibility (CSR) and technologies in social entrepreneurship.

This course focuses on sustainability of supply chains through the lens of these climate change drivers. The course focuses on the food and agriculture industry as a microcosm for the decarbonization of supply chains. Students learn Life Cycle Analyses through their subset Carbon Footprint of Products.

This course allows students to learn about special topics in entrepreneurship that are not taught as part of the regular graduate program or majors in entrepreneurship. Special topics may include: environmental entrepreneurship, social and sustainable entrepreneurship, managing high growth and legal risks, venture and angel capital, international entrepreneurship, and product design and development. This course is repeatable to a maximum of nine (9) credit hours; repeatable within the same term.

This course provides a common intellectual experience for new masters students, while also introducing students to the research, creative, and professional opportunities within the corporate and new venture product development industries. Distinguished faculty and industry professionals give presentations on topics that are of broad interest within the discipline, while classroom discussion and reflections enrich students? experience.

The Jim Moran College Graduate Internship Program is designed for graduate students who desire to gain real world experience in their respective field through on-the-job-practice. Students work under the direction of an approved industry professional and the Jim Moran College Internship Coordinator.