ENTR 185.     Venture Growth Strategies. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Upper-division standing; ENTR 187 or ENTR 189.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Focuses on the opportunities and challenges involved in the management of a business venture and its growth opportunities. Growth is the ultimate resource constrainer, stretching all the resources of a company to the limit and often beyond. Develops a venture spanning approach that examines the business venture and the challenges that tasks venture management to the limit. Provides students with a series of frameworks, analytical skills and techniques, heuristics, and decision-making tools that can be used in growing entrepreneurial businesses.

Note: Only students with an Entrepreneurship Concentration will be admitted.

ENTR 187.     Entrepreneurship. 3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Objective is to lead students through all steps necessary in starting a business: analyzing personal and business goals, researching the market, developing a marketing plan, determining land, building, equipment, supplies, inventory, people needed, determining cash flow and pro forma financial statements, and money needed. The output of all this will be a professional business plan and financial package ready to submit to prospective investors.

ENTR 189.     Corporate Entrepreneurship. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Upper-division standing.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Offers a multidisciplinary framework for studying and developing corporate entrepreneurship. Covers the climate and culture of an entrepreneurial organization, strategies for developing new business ventures within an organization, and strategies for transforming firms toward a more entrepreneurially driven organization. As a result, students will increase their understanding of environment, processes and strategies that will create value and build competence through entrepreneurial activities within organizations.

GM 105.     Strategic Management. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Completion of all other upper-division core courses, except MIS 101.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

This capstone course focuses on the integration of functional areas of a business and requires students to determine strategies/policies at the general-management level. Students address problems and issues faced by companies from a general management perspective which integrates accounting, financial, marketing, human resources, and operations in relation to the environment within a framework of balance between profit or cost-effectiveness and social responsibility.

GM 170.     Fundamentals of Business Strategy. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): HROB 101, MKTG 101, FIN 101, and OPM 101.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Basics of business-level strategy and how they are applied in modern organizations. Underlying primary principles, theories and practices are examined and discussed. Cases presenting actual, real-world situations will be analyzed to derive solutions to the business-level opportunities and problems facing strategic managers.

Note: General Management students must complete all functional core courses before taking GM 170 .

GM 194.     Cooperative Education Experience in Management. 6 - 12 Units

Prerequisite(s): Minimum overall GPA of 2.5.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

In-depth supervised work experience in management for the purpose of exposing the student to comprehensive management experience in business, governmental, or service agencies.

Note: Open to all upper division students, subject to permission of the Management Area. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065.

Credit/No Credit

GM 195.     Internship in Strategic Management. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Minimum Sacramento State GPA of 2.5.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Supervised work experience in business, governmental or service agencies for the purpose of increasing student understanding of the nature and scope of their operations. Supervision is provided by the faculty and the cooperating agencies.

Note: Open to upper division students, subject to permission of the Management Area. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065. Open to declared business administration majors only.

Credit/No Credit

GM 199.     Special Problems in Strategic Management. 1 - 3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Individual projects or directed reading for students qualified to carry on independent work.

Note: Admission requires approval of the instructor and the Associate Dean. Petitions can be obtained from the Undergraduate Business Advising Center, Tahoe 1030.

Credit/No Credit

IBUS 180.     Sustainability Business in Global Economy. 3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Introduces students to the emerging field of sustainability in business and the growing focus on the social, environmental, and economic performance of businesses in global economy. The course presents scientific, moral, and business cases for adopting sustainability.

IBUS 190.     International Business. 3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Analyzes international business: foreign markets; export-import trade; licensing agreements; foreign exchange problems; role of the multinational firm; intergovernmental trade agreements; balance of payments; decision making in foreign environments.

IBUS 195.     Internship in International Business. 3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Minimum Sacramento State GPA of 2.5.

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Supervised work experience in business, governmental or service agencies for the purpose of increasing student understanding of the nature and scope of their operations. Supervision is provided by the faculty and the cooperating agencies.

Note: Open to upper division students, subject to permission of the Management Area. Open to declared business administration majors only. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065.

Credit/No Credit

IBUS 199.     Special Problems in International Business. 1 - 3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Individual projects or directed reading for students qualified to carry on independent work.

Note: Admission requires approval of the instructor and the Associate Dean. Petitions can be obtained from the Undergraduate Business Center, Tahoe 1030.

Credit/No Credit