Business Essentials and Entrepreneurship

Course Description:

Business Essentials introduces students to the world of business and helps prepare them for the economic roles of consumer, worker, and citizen in an ever changing world through effective oral and written communication, agility and adaptability, collaboration and leading by influence. This course serves as background for accessing and analyzing information about business courses students may take in high school and in higher education. Business Essentials will promote curiosity and imagination, assisting students with consumer decision making, prepare them for future employment, and help them effectively perform their responsibilities as a citizen.

It is aimed as well to potential, start-up and existing entrepreneurs for the establishment, development and growth of their small businesses. The course will equip entrepreneurs who require a variety of business, managerial, technical and personal skills and strategies to help them succeed in the creation and sustenance of their business. Entrepreneurs, who are already running a business as well as those contemplating an entrepreneurial venture, will benefit from this course.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course Students will be able to:

1. Understand what is meant by a business.
2. Understand what is meant by an Entrepreneurship
3. Get to grips with the basic business skills needed by an Entrepreneur
4. Understand the essentials of the different majors in the business field:

-Management

-International Management

-Marketing

-Accounting information System

-Human Resource Management

-Banking and finance

-Economics

-Management information systems

-Hospitality Management and tourism