ENT 560 Intellectual Property (February 2024)

ENT 500 Entrepreneurial Innovation (Oct 2023)

This course’s educational objective is to develop the entrepreneurial skills of all students, whether they are in art or zoology, and whether they are social or business entrepreneurs. This course teaches innovative entrepreneurship, which Drs. James and JoAnn Carland regard as the essential character of entrepreneurs. The course relies on your own individual and collective ideas, backgrounds, and curiosity. No previous knowledge or expertise is necessary. Throughout the course we will engage each other in a learning enterprise, similar to the collaborative entrepreneurship process of idea generation, knowledge development, structuring strategic outcomes, and assessing course competency performance. The privilege of learning at Anaheim University – A Sustainable University, avails the opportunity to explore eco-sustainability enterprise ideas for entrepreneurship.  Likewise, the global scope and multicultural spectrum of the Carland Entrepreneurship Institute embraces social enterprise models of community empowerment to enhance entrepreneurship learning. So, bring an open mind and creative spirit to our entrepreneurship learning adventure! 

ENT 540 Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning (May 2023)

Entrepreneurial Funding/ Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning is a course that applies the theory and methods of finance and economics to the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial finance. The course explores how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations as a framework to guide decision making. It focuses on value creation as the objective of each strategic and financial choice that an entrepreneur or investor makes. The course explores the influences of risk and uncertainty on new venture success, and presents a comprehensive survey of approaches to venture valuation.

ENT 540 Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning (May 2022)

Entrepreneurial Funding/ Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning is a course that applies the theory and methods of finance and economics to the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial finance. The course explores how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations as a framework to guide decision making. It focuses on value creation as the objective of each strategic and financial choice that an entrepreneur or investor makes. The course explores the influences of risk and uncertainty on new venture success, and presents a comprehensive survey of approaches to venture valuation.

ENT 500 Entrepreneurial Innovation (February 2022)

This course’s educational objective is to develop the entrepreneurial skills of all students, whether they are in art or zoology, and whether they are social or business entrepreneurs. This course teaches “lean entrepreneurship” instead of traditional business planning. It requires no previous knowledge—only great ideas and lots of enthusiasm. This course helps us to find out about ourselves, helps us to understand how others think and react, helps us to practice creative exercises which can open our minds to new possibilities, helps us to understand why some companies are more innovative than others and discusses what might be accomplished in the creative environment. 

ENT 580 Entrepreneurial Strategy (August 2021)

The objective of this course is to inculcate in students the strategic skills which are required to support the ongoing development of strategy and distinctive competencies, the vision required to support effective environmental scanning, and the knowledge required to plan for harvesting/succession and to design and create innovative and effective entrepreneurial compensation plans. Students will develop higher-level critical thinking skills, evidenced by analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.


ENT 540 Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning (June 2020)

Entrepreneurial Funding/ Entrepreneurial Forecasting and Planning is a course that applies the theory and methods of finance and economics to the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial finance. The course explores how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations as a framework to guide decision making. It focuses on value creation as the objective of each strategic and financial choice that an entrepreneur or investor makes. The course explores the influences of risk and uncertainty on new venture success, and presents a comprehensive survey of approaches to venture valuation.

ENT 580 Entrepreneurial Strategy (September 2019)

Social Entrepreneurship is a course which examines how entrepreneurs creatively solve social problems. The social entrepreneurship course examines theories of social change and investigates how personality impacts the decision to become a social entrepreneur along with creating a sustainable social enterprise. The Entrepreneurship Strategy will offer cutting-edge concepts by integrating entrepreneurship and strategic management to form this emerging fields. This course also focuses on the concepts behind creating a competitive advantage as well as the factors behind strategic growth of entrepreneurial organizations.  


ENT 560 Intellectual Property (July 2019)