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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - ENT6706
Tracking Number - 5191
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Current Status:
Removed from DB by orginator - 2016-05-09
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Duplicate entry - see tracking #5421
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2015-02-04
- Department: Marketing
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 141500
- Contact Person: Diana Hechavarria
- Phone: 8139749242
- Email: dianah@usf.edu
- Prefix: ENT
- Number: 6706
- Full Title: Global Entrepreneurship
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: N
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Global Entrepreneurship
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course deals with the international entrepreneurship from the
perspective of the firm and entrepreneurial managers operating in an international environment.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Replacing Selected Topics with Permanent number; already listed in program
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This is our most popular elective course, and we would like to permanently add it to the entrepreneurship curriculum
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD, Business Adminstration
- Objectives: International entrepreneurship is the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. The objective of the course is to provide students with a fundamental knowledge of the theory
and application of global entrepreneurship.
- Learning Outcomes: Identify the aspects and importance of international entrepreneurship
Describe opportunities available to small businesses in global operations
Identify the important strategic issues in international entrepreneurship
Discuss problems and barriers to international entrepreneurship
Identify various assistance programs available to new and emerging firms for import/export
- Major Topics: Including, but not limited to, topics in international business, such as innovation, technological change, product commercialization strategies, mergers and enterprise acquisition.
- Textbooks: Hisrich, Robert D., 2013. International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a Global Venture, 2nd Ed., Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN: 9781452217390
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: To be determined by instructor.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Grading Scale: 900 1000 (A), 800 - 899 (B), 700 - 799 (C), 650 - 699 (D) and below 650 (F). Pluses and minuses will be given 30 points above and below the grade breakpoints. (e.g. 900-930 (A-) and 870-899 (B+))
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: Grading
Class participation and discussion 300
Reflective Journal Entries (Individual) 100
Mid-Term Paper: (Individual) 250
Country Study Presentation (Group) 150
Country Study Paper (Group) 200
Total 1000
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. Its the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: To be determined by instructor.
- Program This Course Supports: Entrepreneurship
- Course Concurrence Information: College of Engineering, College of Global Sustainability, College of Medicine, College of Business, College of Arts and Sciences.
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.