Entrepreneurship, B.B.A.

Defining entrepreneurship as a “process of opportunity exploration and exploitation,” entrepreneurship can manifest anywhere inside or outside an organization, within startup or large firms, in profit or not-for-profit enterprises, and in business or nonbusiness activities. This entrepreneurial process is one that can be learned and expanded through the development of entrepreneurial competencies and a broader entrepreneurial mindset that is universal and impervious to age, gender or social/economic background.

To fully understand the risks and rewards of entrepreneurial endeavors and processes, students in the study of entrepreneurship are encouraged to engage in entrepreneurial actions and experimentation with new methods, products, markets, business models, organizational structures, reward systems, technologies and more. Students also are exposed to the dynamics, paradoxes, myths and critical aspects surrounding the entrepreneurial process in an effort to help them integrate their entrepreneurial competencies by thinking entrepreneurially in their daily lives and future careers.       

A major in entrepreneurship for a B.B.A. candidate comprises all the degree requirements for the B.B.A., which includes MGMT 3370 and MKTG 3351 plus 12 hours from MGMT 3390, MGMT 4385, MGMT 4393; MGMT 4364; and three hours from MGMT 3370 or MKTG 3351; and nine hours of prescribed electives from MGMT 3366, MGMT 3383, MGMT 4344, MGMT 3372, MGMT 4170, MGMT 4175, MGMT 4176, MKTG 3352, MKTG 3353, MKTG 3355 or BUSI 4300. This degree requires 24 hours, with at least 12 hours of advanced coursework in the major completed at SFA with a minimum 2.0 GPA within the business foundation in the major and overall.