BA in Liberal Studies - Entrepreneurship Specialty Concentration

Basic Program (104-115 units)

• Group A: Reading, Language, and Literature
• Group B: History and Social Science
• Group C: Mathematics
• Group D: Science
• Group E: Visual and Performing Arts
• Group F: Physical Education and Health
• Group G: Human Development
• Group H: Additional General Education (GE) Requirements
• Group I: Additional Liberal Studies Requirements

Concentration

Entrepreneurship Specialty (15 units)

• ENTR 3000 Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 3 units
• ENTR 4420 Small Business Management, 3 units
• ENTR 5430 Ideation and Creative Problem Solving, 3 units
• ENTR 5440 Developing the New Venture, 3 units
• ENTR 5980 Reflective Essay, 0 units
• TA 3141 The Improvisational Mind, 3 units
• Total Units: 15

The Princeton Review, Graduate Entrepreneurship program rankings for 2023, CSUSB School of Entrepreneurship ranks at #44, out of the Top 50 for 2023 and #8 in the West.

Additional Awards & Rankings: https://entre.csusb.edu/content/awards-and-rankings

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Reasoning
   • Engage and show proficiency and competency in various types of reasoning practices that result in both internal and external reflection. These reasoning practices should include: Critical thinking, Analysis, Quantitative, Qualitative, Abstract reasoning, Computational, Processes, Assessment, Evaluation
2. Artistic Expression
   • Display an appreciation of and participation in creative, performing, and visual artistic pursuits in order to develop an aesthetic awareness and a sense of artistic and intellectual property including a public performance, exhibition, publication, or broadcast.
3. Community Engagement, Leadership, and Service Learning
   • Demonstrate a desire to effect positive social change through enacted leadership and advocacy by way of community engagement, service learning, and the practice of compassionate emotional intelligence as an intellectually independent and accountable professional who embodies the practice of responsibility for participation in lifelong learning.
4. Communication
   • Display the ability to articulate and effectively connect across multiple audiences while justifying perspectives with sensitivity and awareness through verbal, non-verbal, written, non-written, digital, and other multimodal communicative approaches.
5. Professionalization
   • Preparation to include the creation and demonstration of innovative lesson plans, where appropriate, along with a completed resume, curriculum vitae, letters of interest, cover letters, and letters of recommendation. Professionalization preparation also includes participation in an international/multicultural immersion experience and verified examples of leadership, service, and collaborative endeavors.
6. Applied Knowledge/Theory and Practice/Research
   • Demonstrate the ability to conduct meaningful research with competency and proficiency while utilizing properly cited critical and information literacies that result in the synthesis of process, creative problem solving, and the ability to move between discipline-specific, trans/interdisciplinary, integrative, and collaborative approaches.
7. Diversity
   • Understand the value of and contribute to an understanding of the vitality, advancement, and conservation of our culturally, linguistically, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse, yet, globally connected society.