ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Course Syllabus


Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge needed for organizing, developing, and implementing a business concern within the private free enterprise system. Topics of study will include learning the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, choosing a location, securing a loan, determining organizational structure, and promoting the business.


Instructional Philosophy: Instruction in this area prepares students to understand how to organize and operate a business. All students can benefit from an understanding of and appreciation for entrepreneurship and its role in the enterprise system.


Major Course Goals:


  1. Use knowledge of exchange principles and investment opportunities to apply economic concepts.

  2. Apply competent management, communication, and interpersonal skills.

  3. Demonstrate marketing techniques.

  4. Display competence in entrepreneurial finance and human resources.


Major Course Objectives / Benchmarks by Quarter:


3rd Quarter:

1. Apply economic concepts.

2. Identify various exchange principles.

3. Describe a mixture of investment opportunities.

4. Identify management responsibilities.

5. Use communication skills effectively.


4th Quarter:

  1. Demonstrate interpersonal skills.

  2. Define elements of marketing.

  3. Explain financial issues.

  4. Explore human resources.


Major Course Projects and Instructional Activities:


  1. Entrepreneurial characteristics

  2. Forms of business ownership

  3. Rewards and risks of entrepreneurship

  4. Business start-up

  5. Business opportunities

  6. International business and the global economy

  7. Stock Market

  8. Leadership styles

  9. Entrepreneurial trends

  10. Site selection and physical layout

  11. Social and ethical responsibility

  12. Marketing mix

  13. Market analysis

  14. In-school business


Course Assessment Plan:


The following assessments will be used in Entrepreneurship:

  1. Objective tests

  2. Performance tests

  3. Projects assessed using scoring guides and peer evaluation forms


Course Expectations: Students are expected to conduct themselves in this course just as they would in a business office by always respecting themselves and others, following through on work commitments and responsibilities, and striving their best to earn a good wage, which in this course will be their grade.


Supplies and Materials Needed: Paper, pen, and a cooperative attitude.


Homework Policy and Grading Scale: Graded assignments, both written and computer, will be given a percentage grade. The grading scale for these percentage grades will be:


A 100-95 B- 82-80 D+ 69-67

A- 94-90 C+ 79-77 D 66-63

B+ 89-87 C 76-73 D- 62-60

B 86-83 C- 72-70 F 59 and below


Your Entrepreneurship grade will be calculated as follows:

Daily Work and Assignments 40%

Tests 50%

Work Habits and Attitude 10% (partially determined by attendance)


Extra Help: Students may stay after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for extra help or to work on the computers to catch up on assignments.


Time and Place to be Reached by Parent:

E-mail kreese@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us

Phone 573.568.2146

Best Time to Reach Monday through Friday from 11:55 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.