The City Colleges of Chicago is now offering entrepreneurship classes for credit.  Visit entrepreneurship.ccc.edu or contact entrepreneurship@ccc.edu for more information.

• ENTRE 201 – Introduction to Entrepreneurship.
  This interdisciplinary course introduces participants from various disciplines to the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship, a manageable process applicable across careers, work settings, and time. The course focuses on building entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors that will lead to creative solutions within the business community and other organizational environments.

  ENTRE 201 is also available online via City Colleges’ Center for Distance Learning (CDL). Register by visiting my.ccc.edu, by contacting an academic advisor at your college, or by contacting Selom Assignon at sassignon@ccc.edu or call 773.487.6953.

• ENTRE 202 – Opportunity Recognition & Development.
  Participants will learn techniques and processes leading to opportunity (value) recognition to include the assessment of the current economic, social, and political climate that provides value opportunities for entrepreneurial ventures. Opportunities will be assessed relative to personal strengths and weaknesses, financial, professional, social, and personal goals.  Participants will also identify the target market by conducting secondary market research, prototyping, and limited primary market research. Participants will then examine the feasibility of creating, delivering, capturing the value of their venture.
  Note: Business 216 can substitute for ENTRE 201. ENTRE 201 and 202 may be taken concurrently.
• ENTRE 203 – Entrepreneurial Accounting & Finance.
  An advanced entrepreneurial course structured to expose participants to accounting and financial methodologies in order to assess or predict the financial performance of their enterprise.  Building upon their business concept or existing enterprise, participants will be introduced to core financial and managerial accounting concepts; as well as, financial analysis techniques that will enable them to prepare short- and long-term financial operations plans, including cash requirements for enterprise startup and ongoing operations.  Participants will be trained to use computerized accounting software as part of a managerial tool kit to support operation assessment.
• ENTRE 204 – Entrepreneurial Marketing & Sales.
  Introduces marketing principles and strategies to support entrepreneurship.  Students will develop a theoretical and practical understanding of marketing concepts, e-commerce, pricing policies, product promotion strategies and distribution alternatives.  This course will utilize presentation and computer simulation to facilitate the student’s understanding of marketing goods or services.
• ENTRE 205 – Law for the Entrepreneur.
  This course provides the student with an overview of the formation and operation of business enterprises, exposes the student to types of business organizations, contract law, leases, intellectual property and employment law.  Students will learn about sole proprietorships, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations, the benefits and disadvantages of each type of entity as well as the formation, dissolution and recordkeeping for each of these entities.  Students will apply this information to business plans and will learn about other fundamental areas of law affecting business entities.
• ENTRE 206 – Advanced Entrepreneurship (available Fall 2010).
  Participants will identify problems that arise in actual businesses of industry representatives and use their problem-solving skills to suggest solutions; integrate sections of externally focused business plan into comprehensive whole, and conduct a short case study analysis of an entrepreneur and their business.