Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
REVE-0001
Organization:
Location:
Hybrid
Length:
8 weeks (120 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 introduction to entrepreneurship
Description

Objective:

Learners will create an actionable business plan and prototype using human centered design principles and pitch their business concepts to an audience.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Create an actionable business plan, prototype, and business pitch to present to an audience
  • Define and identify the components of a business model
  • Understand the skills needed to build an entrepreneurial mindset including creativity, experimentation, critical thinking and decision making
  • Explain how the proposed product/service is a unique offering and different from existing products/services
  • Deliver business plans and business pitch
  • Explain the processes used to finance, market and operate a new business
  • Embed design thinking, entrepreneurial mindset, and human centered design into the creation of an actionable business plan
  • Embed Agile Project Management methodology into team collaboration sessions to increase workflow productivity
  • Create digital and/or physical assets for marketing, prototyping, and presentation of business concepts
  • Analyze market research and stakeholder interviews to create feasible solutions to community needs

General Topics:

  • Agile Project Management
  • Human Centered Design
  • Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship Design Thinking
  • Professional Skills
  • Writing a business plan
  • Essential business vocabulary
  • Market research
  • Testing and refining
  • Marketing and Finance
  • Desire, Feasibility and Viability of the business concept
  • Creating a physical or digital prototype
  • Pitching the business concept in a presentation to an audience
  • Create an actionable business plan, prototype, and business pitch to present to an audience
  • Define and identify the components of a business model
  • Understand the skills needed to build an entrepreneurial mindset including creativity, experimentation, critical thinking and decision making
  • Explain how the proposed product/service is a unique offering and different from existing products/services
  • Deliver business plans and business pitch
  • Explain the processes used to finance, market and operate a new business
  • Embed design thinking, entrepreneurial mindset, and human centered design into the creation of an actionable business plan
  • Embed Agile Project Management methodology into team collaboration sessions to increase workflow productivity
  • Create digital and/or physical assets for marketing, prototyping, and presentation of business concepts
  • Analyze market research and stakeholder interviews to create feasible solutions to community needs
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Coaching/Mentoring
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Games/Competition
  • Learner Presentations
  • Practical Exercises
  • Project-based Instruction
  • Work-based Learning

Methods of Assessment:

  • Other
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Business Model Canvas

Minimum Passing Score:

80%
Supplemental Materials

Other offerings from Reve Academy

(REVE-0002)