Course Syllabus

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management - 105 Section 70

Summer 2023 Crafton Hills College

Course Information

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Time: Online

Duration:7/3/23 to 8/3/23

Location: Online Prerequisites: None Credit Units: 3

Instructor Information

Instructor: Anthony Guaderrama, M.A. Email: aguaderrama@sbccd.cc.ca.us

Virtual Office Hours: Email anytime, video conferencing by appointment

 

Course Description

 

Introduction to entrepreneurship and principles of managing a small business. Emphasis on the development of an effective business plan and knowledge and skills necessary to open and operate a successful small business including managing growth, pricing, advertising, financial analysis, record-keeping, budgeting, purchasing and controlling inventory, franchising, and acquiring capital.

Course-Level Student Learning Outcomes

 

  • Understand and apply the elements of internal control: people, structure, processes, and procedures.
  • Develop, record, and integrate business process functionality into the business
  • Demonstrate the ability to identify and measure control risks, determine potential consequences, and prescribe appropriate controls.
  • Apply current information topics and trends from business, accounting, risk management, and personal flourishing that will enable the individual to adapt as a
  • Identify and describe the function and/or key contributions of the different governing and authoritative bodies applicable to this discipline.
  • Demonstrate practical inquiry, investigative, and persuasion

 

Program-Level Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Present and discuss contemporary business principles, practices and organizations
  2. Discuss economic, political and ethical issues and their impact upon business policies and practices
  3. Explain and apply basic accounting principles
  4. Effectively explain and apply marketing principles pertaining to promotion, advertising, public relations and personal selling.
  5. Describe and apply the economic concepts of supply and demand, competition, and product differentiation and their role in the free market
  6. Explain and apply the basic concepts of management and leadership
  7. Effectively explain the various concepts of human resource management including employee training, motivations, compensations, and labor relations.

 

 

Textbook Requirements

 

Please see the “Start Here” Section and Free Textbook Tab on Canvas

 

 

Required Materials and Supplies

Students will need Microsoft Office 2016 or newer (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) to complete course assignments. The instructor will not accept work that is not submitted with Office products. Crafton Hills College students are eligible to install Office 365 on up to five PCs, Macs, and mobile devices, including Windows tablets and iPads, at no cost to the student. This includes the latest version of Office. Visit Link for free Office 2016 (Links to an external site.) for more details.

 

Technical Requirements

For students to successfully complete this course, you will need access to a computer with reliable Internet access and the appropriate system and software to support the Canvas learning platform.

 

Minimal Technical Skills Needed

Students should be familiar with certain basic computer skills. These skills include the use of the Internet, Office Word, and PowerPoint. Students can use the Crafton Computer Lab. The Open lab hours are posted at the lab entrance. The lab is available for all students to work on computer assignments, and help is available from the lab tutors. The lab tutors will help with the basic technical skills needed to complete the tasks but will not help with the assignment content.

 

Course Assignments

Syllabus Quiz – Read the syllabus and take a quick quiz to acknowledge (50 points)

 

Introductory discussion - The students will engage in an online discussion during Week 1. This is a two-part assignment:

 

  1. In a minimum of 250 words, students will introduce themselves to the class (Worth 30 points). **Due by 11:59pm Wednesday of week 1**
  2. In 100-150 words, students are required to respond to at least 2 classmates by 11:59pm Sunday. (Worth 10 points per response)

 

 

Weekly Discussion Activities – Through weeks 2-5, students will engage in an online discussion regarding the weekly reading. These are two-part assignments:

 

  1. In 300-500 words, students will answer questions posed to them (Worth 30 points). **Due by 11:59pm Wednesday of each week**
  2. In 100-150 words, students are required to respond to at least 2 classmates by 11:59pm Sunday. (Worth 15 points per response)

 

Weekly Assignments – Students will demonstrate skills they have learned by applying them to a weekly assignment. Assignments are due by Sunday of the assigned week but may be completed any time during the week.

 

 

Grading Policy

Grades are determined on a straight-scale basis using the following 1,000-point scale. The graded assignments are:

  • Syllabus Quiz – 50 points
  • Discussion Boards (60 points x 5) – total of 300 points
    • 30 points initial post, 15 points each response
  • Are You and Entrepreneur - 150 points
  • Future Self Letter – 150 points
  • Executive Summary Paper – 150 points
  • Research Paper – 200 points

·       Total Class Points = 1,000

All written work must be of professional quality. All written work must be keyed using a computer. Handwritten work will not be accepted. In addition, work that has excessive or distracting grammatical, mechanical, or typographical errors will be graded accordingly. All written assignments should be written using APA format.

 

Grading Scale and Returning Graded Work

A – 90.00% or above

B – 80.00% - 89.99%

C – 70.00% - 79.99%

D – 60.00% - 69.99%

F – 0% - 59.99%

Your recorded grades can be viewed on Canvas and will be available for you to review. Feedback is given on Canvas, please review your feedback to improve next week.

Please review your grades and notify your instructor if there are any discrepancies.

 

Class Schedule

 

Module 1 (7/3/23 to 7/9/23) -        Module 1 Discussion Board

Syllabus Quiz

 

Module 2 (7/10/23 to 7/16/23) -     Module 2 Discussion Board

Are You and Entrepreneur?

 

Module 3 (7/17/23 to 7/23/23) -     Module 3 Discussion Board

                                                  Executive Summary Paper

Module 4 (7/24/23 to 7/30/23) -     Module 4 Discussion Board

 

Executive Summary Paper

Research Paper (Due 8/3/23)

Module 5 (7/31/23 to 8/3/23) -      Module 5 Discussion Board

Future Self Letter

 

Attendance and Class Participation

Requirements for students’ attendance and participation are defined as:

 

  • Monday of the first week is considered the first day of class for online
  • The Instructor is not obligated to accommodate students under extraordinary circumstances, but the student must request accommodations and provide requested supporting documentation.

 

  • Regular online attendance/participation and engagement is expected for student success in online courses. Online participation is evident through posting to a discussion board, completing assignments, or taking quizzes and exams.

 

The Policy of Collecting and Returning Work

All work needs to be submitted through Canvas before the submission deadline. The grades and feedback of the assignment will be entered onto Canvas. The instructor will, at a minimum, adhere to the following timeframe for returning work to students:

 

  • Crafton College email will be used for all email communication and checked on a daily basis. The instructor will reply to all emails within 24 hours.
  • Timely feedback for communication is 24 hours and maybe handled by email or
  • Timely feedback for assessed work is 72 hours after the submission deadline for minor assignments and 1 week for major assignments after the submission

 

Late Work Policy

All graded work must be submitted by midnight on Sunday of the week in which the work is assigned. You should turn your work in prior to the due date. Late work will be deducted 10% for each day after the due date. Incomplete work may be considered for grading if you include an explanation as to why you were unable to complete the task as assigned. If you experience some type of difficulty with a quiz or an exam, please contact your instructor.

 

Communication Policy

Email messages: If you have any questions about the course or the related assignments please email me using my college email address which is: aguaderrama@sbccd.cc.ca.us. I will respond to all emails within 24 hours.

 

Drop Policy

Active participation in this course is required. You must complete and submit the work as assigned by the due date(s). If you fail to attend the course for two weeks in a row and do not submit any work, quizzes, or exams, you will be dropped. Please contact me using one of the communications methods listed above if you are experiencing any type of technical difficulty so that I can help you get back on task as soon as possible.

 

Policy regarding Decorum, Behavior, and Netiquette

“Netiquette” is network etiquette—that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. Virginia Shea has defined the issues, and discussed them at length, in her book Netiquette. You may view a brief summary of her “Core Rules of Netiquette” at the following website: The Core

 

Rules of Netiquette (Links to an external site.). They won't answer all netiquette questions, but they will provide some basic principles to use in solving many netiquette dilemmas. Remember to also always follow the student handbook.

 

  • Be polite and respectful of one another including the instructor
  • Avoid personal Keep dialogue friendly and supportive, even when you disagree or wish to present a controversial idea or response.
  • Be careful with the use of humor and Emotion is difficult to sense through text.
  • Be helpful and share your Foster community communication and
  • Contribute constructively and completely to each Avoid short repetitive “I agree” responses and don’t make everyone else do the work.
  • Consider carefully what you Re-read all e-mail and discussion before sending or posting.
  • Remember that email is considered a permanent record that may be forwarded to
  • Be brief and Don’t use up other people’s time or bandwidth.
  • Use descriptive subject headings for each e-mail
  • Respect Don’t forward a personal message without permission.
  • Cite Include web addresses, authors, names of articles, date of publication, etc.
  • Keep responses professional and Do not advertise or send chain letters.
  • Do not send large attachments unless you have been requested to do so or have permission from all parties.
  • Two-word postings (e.g.: I agree, Oh yeah, No way, Me too) do not “count” as a post)

 

Academic Honesty

As a learning community of scholars, Crafton College emphasizes the ethical responsibility of all its members to seek knowledge honestly and in good faith. Students are responsible for doing their own work, and academic dishonesty of any kind will not be tolerated. Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, or misrepresentation of information in oral or written form. Such violations will be dealt with severely by the instructor. Plagiarism means presenting someone else's idea or writing as if it were your own. If you use someone else's idea or writing, be sure the source is clearly documented."

 

  • Plagiarism - Plagiarism consists of using another author's words without proper identification and documentation of that author. Plagiarism takes the form of direct quotation without the use of quotation marks and/or documentation or paraphrasing without proper identification and documentation. The fabrication of sources, or the act, deliberately or unconsciously, of passing another author's work off as your own are also considered to be plagiarism.
  • Falsification - Falsification consists of deliberately changing results, statistics, or any other kind of factual information to make it suit your It also consists of deliberately changing a source's intent by misquoting or taking out of context.

 

  • Multiple Submissions - If syou wish to turn in the same work or use the same research, in whole or in part, for more than one course, you must obtain permission to do so from all professors involved. Failure to obtain this permission constitutes academic dishonesty. “Recycled work” must contain significant work as related to the current course topic, meeting the standards for the current assignment.

 

Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

Students with a disability who may need special accommodation(s) for this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact Disabled Student Programs & Services, (909)389-3325, CCR 101 as soon as possible.

 

Policy Regarding Student-Initiated Contact

Any portion of a course conducted through distance education includes regular effective contact between instructor and students. Regular effective contact means the instructors will keep in contact with students on a consistent and timely basis to both ensure the quality of instruction and verify their performance and participation status of the student.

Instructor Initiated Contact with Students Examples for this Class are:

 

  • Course Announcements
  • Email Messaging
  • Personalized Feedback
  • Discussion Boards
  • Phone/Voicemail

 

Student- Student to Example for this Class are:

 

  • Email Messaging
  • Discussion Boards

 

Student Content Examples for this Class are:

 

  • Modules on Canvas
  • Discussion Boards

 

Student interface examples for this Class are:

 

  • Computer hardware
  • Internet browsers
  • Software applications
  • Weekly modules on Canvas

 

All questions need to be asked directly to the instructor through email, phone call, or office hours. There is a general student discussion board forum for students to ask questions amongst each other. The instructor will monitor a general student discussion

 

board forum but will not answer questions posted in this forum because this is a student to student forum.

Policy on Communication, Email, and Technical Issues

  • All students are required to use their campus assigned Any emails sent to the instructor with questions, concerns, or issues will be answered within 24 hours. The subject line of the email must include the course number and your first and last name. Emails without subject line information will not be read. Students may also contact the instructor at the posted phone number. If you leave a message, please leave your first and last name and a return phone number. Calls will be returned within 24 hours.
  • The Announcements area of Canvas will be used to post daily reminders, changes, revisions or issues related to the course. Be sure to check daily. Email announcements will be sent to your official student email address given by the school district SBCCD.
  • The instructor will monitor the Canvas site. If the Canvas site experiences technical difficulties that impact assignments, quizzes or exams, due dates may be adjusted by If you run into a technical problem that impacts your ability to complete your work on time, you must contact the instructor well to discuss the problem.
  • The Central Help Desk is available 24/7 to all faculty, staff, and students. They can be reached on campus at (x4357) and off campus at (877) 241-1756. You can also create a help desk ticket online at SBCCD Technical Assistance Center

Website (Links to an external site.).

 

Syllabus Disclaimer

The instructor views the course syllabus as an educational contract between the instructor and students. Every effort will be made to avoid changing the course schedule, but the possibility exists that unforeseen events will make syllabus changes necessary. The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the syllabus as deemed necessary. Students will be notified in a timely manner of any syllabus changes via email or the course Announcements. Please remember to check your school email and the course Announcements often.