All Undergraduate courses

The following entrepreneurship courses are available to undergraduate students.

BusM 371R — Entrepreneur Lecture Series
This course presents lectures by successful entrepreneurs on subjects significant to entrepreneur-type opportunities.(Fall and Winter)

BusM 372 — Basic Entrepreneurship Skills
This course focuses on the "How To" of practical aspects of business formation and growth. It teaches key skills and principles needed to successfully start up and grow a business. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 373R — Entrepreneurial Field Seminars
These seminars address current topics in the field; individual projects pre-approved by instructor. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 384 — E-Business Lecture Series
This series presents lectures by e-business leaders on subjects significant to e-business-type opportunities. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 454 — Professional Selling and Sales Management
This course addresses concepts of professional selling and sales management including personal selling skills. It also addresses the strategic role of personal selling, organizing, directing, controlling, and evaluating the sales force. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 475 — Financing New Ventures
This course contains concepts and skills of entrepreneurship that emphasizes new and emerging companies and how they are financed. It also teaches how to apply functional tools to case situations. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 478 — eBusiness Technology and Entrepreneurship
This class addresses key issues and problems facing managers in start-up e-business and IT companies. The course is team-taught by professors and entrepreneurs which is particularly helpful for students starting IT businesses. (Fall)

BusM 479 — Creating and Managing New Ventures
This class focuses on the key issues faced by entrepreneurs in new ventures and small businesses; taught in five modules: Strategy Formulation, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Practical Issues; involves lecture discussions, guest lectures by a variety of entrepreneurs and interactive case discussions with the entrepreneurs involved in the case; participants develop a business plan. (Fall and Winter)

BusM 490R — Managing New Ventures
This class focuses on how to operate and grow high-tech or growth businesses after an initial idea and funding has been secured. Although this course focuses on the post-idea phase of entrepreneurship, the course is relevant for students with or without their own venture idea. The perspective and skills developed in this course should prepare students for a broad range of careers, including joining an existing startup to "apprentice" with an experienced entrepreneur, managing corporate ventures/initiatives or entering a professional services career such as consulting and investment banking. (Winter)

BusM 490R — Venture Capital Analysis
This class focuses on the tools and processes that both entrepreneurs and investors use to recognize and capture entrepreneurial opportunities. From an entrepreneur's perspective, students will learn tools to find new venture opportunities and evaluate their merit. From an investor's perspective students will learn non-financial due diligence tools to recognize good investments. Most importantly this course integrates with the Kickstart Seed Fund and local entrepreneurs to provide real experience with these processes. Note: this course does not cover how venture capitalists structure deals or the financial aspects of venture capital, areas covered by other classes offered at BYU.(Fall and Winter)

BusM 490R — Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
In this class, students learn how to develop, use, and protect intellectual property assets. Doing so can result in great rewards, while not doing so can contribute to significant lost opportunities. Students will also learn how to avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of others.(Fall and Winter)

BusM 495R — E-Business Projects
This course is a field studies class that provides students with hands-on or consulting experience in the field of technology entrepreneurship. (On demand, not offered every semester)

BusM 538 — Managing Entrepreneurial Firms and Family Businesses
This class addresses the issues and problems facing managers of entrepreneurial enterprises and leaders of family-owned businesses. Includes start-up, growth, and exit strategies. Consulting project required. (Fall and Winter)

ISys 590R – Mobile Application Development
Students learn how to develop applications for one of the leading mobile platforms such as Android or iOS. Prerequisites include ISys 403 and ISys 413 or equivalent. (Winter)

MBA 590R — Knowledge Brokering
Knowledge brokering is the process by which successful, serial innovators achieve commercial success. In this class, students adopt the role of knowledge brokers for campus, learning who knows what, seeking out great ideas, and combining those ideas to innovate. Students will learn entrepreneurship by mentoring student teams in developing their ideas and launching their ventures. (Fall)

MBA 590R — Business Plans
In this class, student entrepreneurs learn the fine points of developing business plans as well as launching and managing their new ventures. This class is particularly focused on preparing students for the BYU Business Plan Competition. Students receive mentoring that will accelerate the maturation process of their ventures. (Fall)