Entrepreneurship (ENTR)

Subject-area course lists indicate courses currently active for offering at the University of Louisville. Not all courses are scheduled in any given academic term. For class offerings in a specific semester, refer to the Schedule of Classes.

500-level courses generally are included in both the undergraduate- and graduate-level course listings; however, specific course/section offerings may vary between semesters. Students are responsible for ensuring that they enroll in courses that are applicable to their particular academic programs.

Course Fees

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ENTR 600. Introduction to Entrepreneurship3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Enrolled Graduate status.

Description: This course will introduce the students to the world of entrepreneurship via a hands-on, business building experience. Students will be divided into teams and each team will be required to think through the process of developing and launching its own start-up business. Using the lean launch methodology, the end result will be a written business plan & presentation, which will include a business model canvas presentation, a detailed financial model, and a viable business concept. The skills learned through this experience will benefit an entrepreneur who wants to launch and kind of business in the future, including a non-profit, a for-profit, a franchise, or a social venture as well as an intrapreneur working within a corporate setting.

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ENTR 701. Foundations in Entrepreneurship Research3-12 Units

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers the development of scholarship in entrepreneurship, preparatory to a doctoral student beginning his or her research.

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ENTR 702. Seminar in Research Design I3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers research design and conjoint analysis.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 761.

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ENTR 703. Venture Capital Seminar3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers scholarship in venture capital.

Note: Previously offered as ENTR 768.

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ENTR 710. Statistics I3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall Even Years

Description: This course introduces the topic of statistics and covers probability theory and distributions, hypotheses testing, single sample testing correlation, simple and multiple regression models, and analysis of variance.

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ENTR 711. Statistics II3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): ENTR 710.

Description: This course will cover advanced topics in multivariate statistics including logistics regression modeling, cluster analysis, principle components analysis, advanced analysis of variance models, hierarchical modeling, and multinomial models.

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ENTR 715. Entrepreneurship & The Environment Context3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall Odd Years

Description: There is widespread agreement among entrepreneurship scholars that the environmental context is an important antecedent to entrepreneurial action. This seminar will be topical based, examining theories and applied research on the nexus between the environmental context and entrepreneurship. Topics to be examined include: external enablers, knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, institutions, culture, social capital, infrastructure, public policy, regional entrepreneurship, academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, crisis response, and the biological perspective.

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ENTR 721. Entrepreneurial Discovery Seminar1.5 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers scholarship on entrepreneurial discovery.

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ENTR 722. Philosophy of Science1.5 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers philosophy of science as it relates to research in entrepreneurship.

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ENTR 723. Seminar in Organizational Behavior/Human Resources in Entrepreneurship3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers organizational behavior and human resources in entrepreneurial firms.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 740.

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ENTR 724. Seminar in Entrepreneurship from a Strategic Perspecitve3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers organizational behavior and human resources in entrepreneurial firms.

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ENTR 725. Innovation and Business Transformation3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall Odd Years

Description: This seminar will explore academic literature of innovation not involving new startup ventures. Topics include building capabilities based on social networks, organizational learning, technological innovation, innovative environments, knowledge transfer, technological trajectories, disruption, and path dependencies.

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ENTR 726. Advanced Multivariate Techniques3 Units

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Comprehensive treatment of multivariate statistics, including cluster analysis, MANOVA, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, and covariance structure modeling.

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ENTR 731. Independent Study I3-9 Units

Grading Basis: Pass/Fail

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Independent study to prepare for preliminary examinations.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 789.

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ENTR 732. Independent Study II3-9 Units

Grading Basis: Pass/Fail

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Students may select a specialized topic to study under faculty supervision.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 790.

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ENTR 734. Independent Study to Prepare Second-Year Paper3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Students use this independent study to prepare their second-year papers.

Note: Previously taught as ENTER 799.

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ENTR 735. Structural Equation Models3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This seminar will explore the fundamentals of structural equation modeling (SEM), different types of variables and SEM assumptions, latent versus manifest variables, the standard versus SEM approach to variable construction and measurement, SEM relative to other statistical methods, and SEM software packages. Each of these will be explored in great detail, and students will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in running and analyzing structural equation models.

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ENTR 741. Seminar in Research Design II3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Reviews advanced research design concepts for performing research in entrepreneurship.

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ENTR 742. Seminar in Entrepreneurship from an Economic Perspective3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Reviews entrepreneurship from an economic perspective.

Note: Previously taught an ENTR 720.

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ENTR 743. Seminar in Entrepreneurship from a Psychological Perspective3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Reviews entrepreneurship from a psychological perspective.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 733.

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ENTR 745. Entrepreneurship Theory I3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall Even Years

Description: A survey of the field of entrepreneurship, the course objective is to familiarize students with the primary theories of the field as well as common and promising methodological approaches to the study of entrepreneurship. Topics include: a theoretical overview of entrepreneurship research agendas, entrepreneurship motivation and opportunity, entrepreneurial attention and information processing, learning and knowledge related to opportunity, entrepreneurial decision making and biases, and entrepreneurs' human and social capital. Class sessions will be devoted to reviewing and critiquing the readings associated with each of the aforementioned topics and generating research opportunities.

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ENTR 746. Entrepreneurship Theory II3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Fall Odd Years

Description: This course is designed as a second broad survey of major topics in the field of entrepreneurship. Its objective is to familiarize the students with some of the primary theoretical underpinnings of the field as well as some of the common and/or promising methodological approaches to the study of entrepreneurial phenomena. Topics covered in the course include: strategic orientation and corporate entrepreneurship, new ventures (strategy, growth, performance), entrepreneurial failure, family business, and international entrepreneurship. Indirectly the course will cover a dissertation in entrepreneurship, the journal reviews process, research methods, and presenting research papers. Class sessions will be devoted to reviewing and critiquing the readings associated with each of the aforementioned topics and generating research opportunities.

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ENTR 747. Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Description: This course is designed as a focused seminar on the topic of corporate entrepreneurship and innovation. Its objective is to familiarize the students with some of the primary theoretical underpinnings of the field as well as some of the common and/or promising methodological approaches to the study of corporate entrepreneurial phenomena. Topics covered in the course include: corporate entrepreneurship, internal corporate ventures, external corporate ventures, entrepreneurial orientation, firm-level innovation, and strategic rejuvenation. Indirectly the course will also cover a dissertation in entrepreneurship, the journal review process, research methods, and presenting research papers.

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ENTR 751. Seminar in Current Topics in Entrepreneurship3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Even Year

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Reviews current topics in entrepreneurship research.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 700.

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ENTR 752. Seminar in a Sociological Perspective on Entrepreneurship3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Even Year

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Reviews current topics in entrepreneurship research.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 710.

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ENTR 753. Seminar in Family Business3 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall Even Year

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Seminar in family business.

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ENTR 754. Seminar in Social Entrepreneurship1.5 Units

Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: This course covers social entrepreneurship in the field of entrepreneurship research.

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ENTR 760. Entrepreneurship Directed Readings I1-6 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Students may select a specialized topic to study under faculty supervision.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 770.

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ENTR 762. Entrepreneurship Directed Readings II1-6 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Students may select a specialized topic to study under faculty supervision.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 771.

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ENTR 763. Entrepreneurship Directed Readings III1-6 Units

Term Typically Offered: Summer, Fall Odd Years

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: Students may select a specialized topic to study under faculty supervision.

Note: Previously taught as ENTR 772.

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ENTR 780. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship1-6 Units

Prerequisite(s): Doctoral student in Entrepreneurship.

Description: An advanced study of one or more selected topics or issues related to the study of Entrepreneurship.

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