Entrepreneurship (Certificate)

Program Advisor: Karen Hines, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs

Completing the BCC Entrepreneurship certificate program grants students a certificate that is stackable within the Business Administration (A.A) and Business Career (A.S.) program - allowing a student to move from certificate to a two-year to a four-year business or entrepreneurship program.

Our Entrepreneurship Certificate program provides students with a robust set of business courses to give them the skills they need to start a business or launch a new idea/concept within an existing business. In addition, it prepares you to run your own business more efficiently, grow your business, and gain an edge in increasing its success in today’s competitive business climate.

Topics covered by this program include:

Opportunity Recognition	Identifying changing conditions or overlooked possibilities in the environment that represent potential sources of profit or return in a venture
Opportunity Assessment	Evaluating the structure of opportunities to determine their feasibility accurately
Risk Mitigation	Recognizing and reducing the probability of a threat occurring, or reducing the potential impact if the threat were to occur
Conveying a Compelling Vision	Conceiving the image of a future entrepreneurship opportunity and articulating that image in a manner that empowers followers to respond to it
Creative Problem-Solving skills	From thinking quickly, creatively and laterally while evaluating available options, to resolving customer and employee issues and questions - all while being profitable, engaging, emotionally rewarding, and socially valued
Value Innovation / Creation	Developing new products, services, and/or business models that generate revenues and bring about a fair return
Tenacity/Perseverance	Sustaining goal-directed actions when confronting difficulties and obstacles that impede goal achievement
Building and Using Entrepreneurial Networks	Nurturing social interaction skills that enable an individual to establish, develop and maintain relationships with others who assist them in advancing their work or career
Data analysis	Handling data well and using it effectively
Communication skills	Developing strong communication skills to inspire others to be more confident in expressing their opinions and encourage them to give feedback, which can speed up the process of finding solutions.
Critical thinking	Identifying underlying problems and turning such issues into opportunities

All business certificate and degree programs can be completed on an accelerated basis, and can be applied towards a full degree program in the future.

Admissions Requirements

Documentation of high school graduation or alternative high school credential. Reading and writing competency at a college level as shown by high school GPA of 2.7 within the past ten years,
Accuplacer assessment, or completion of a college composition class. Math at a college level as shown by a high school GPA of 2.7 within the past three years Accuplacer assessment, or completion
of a math course of MAT-028A or higher.

Standard Business Degree Requirements for BCC. Prereq. ENG-020. 4/5 Graduation Requirements with Suggested Block for Program Completion

Expected Outcomes

At BCC, students will learn the fundamentals that will help them learn to better the odds of creating sustainable success in developing a business. Coursework will help develop an entrepreneurial mindset and understand entrepreneurial finance, small business management, marketing, and legal issues for small business owners.

Our curriculum and program are based on providing students the opportunity and skills to improve on each of these competencies.

Opportunity Recognition: the capacity to recognize changing conditions or overlooked possibilities in the environment that represent potential sources of profit or return in a venture
Opportunity Assessment: the ability to have the flexibility to evaluate the structure of opportunities to accurately determine their feasibility
Risk Mitigation: the ability to recognize and take necessary actions to reduce the probability of a risk occurring or reduce the potential impact if the threat were to occur
Conveying a Compelling Vision: the ability to conceive the image of a future entrepreneurship opportunity and to articulate that image in a manner that empowers followers to respond to it
Creative Problem-Solving skills: the ability to think quickly, think creatively and laterally, evaluate options, to resolve customer and employee issues and questions - while being profitable, engaging, emotionally rewarding, and socially valued.
Value Innovation / Creation: capabilities at developing new products, services and/or business models that generate revenues and bring about a fair return
Tenacity/Perseverance: an ability to sustain goal-directed actions when confronting difficulties and obstacles that impede goal achievement
Building and Using Entrepreneurial Networks: social interaction skills that enable an individual to establish, develop and maintain relationships with others who assist them in advancing their work or career
Data analysis: the ability to handle data well and use it in the most effective way
Communication skills: Develop good communication skills to inspire others to be more confident in expressing their opinions and encourage them to give feedback, which can speed up the process of finding solutions.
Critical thinking: to enable entrepreneurs to identify problems and turn such issues into opportunities.

Graduation Requirements

Program Courses

CIS-102	Fundamental Computer Literacy	4
BUS-111	Principles of Accounting I	3
COM-107	Introduction to Oral Communication in Business	3
-	Or
BUS-247	Business Communications	3
BUS-208	Principles of Marketing	3
BUS-206	Principles of Management	3
ECO-211	Principles of Microeconomics	3
BUS-251	Law for Business I	3
BUS-216	Small Business Entrepreneur & Management	3
Total Credit Hours:		25

Total Credit Hours: 25

Suggested Pathway to Graduation

First Semester

CIS-102	Fundamental Computer Literacy	4
BUS-111	Principles of Accounting I	3
BUS-208	Principles of Marketing	3
BUS-206	Principles of Management	3
COM-107	Introduction to Oral Communication in Business	3
-	Or
BUS-247	Business Communications	3
Total Credit Hours:		19

Second Semester

ECO-211	Principles of Microeconomics	3
BUS-251	Law for Business I	3
BUS-216	Small Business Entrepreneur & Management	3
Total Credit Hours:		9