| Upper Level Seminars |
Upper-Level SeminarsUpper-level seminars include both intra-disciplinary and interdisciplinary seminars. Intra-disciplinary seminars are designed to help students in the major liberal arts disciplines define what entrepreneurship is within their disciplines and to inspire entrepreneurial thinking. One of the aims of these seminars is to have students develop a comprehensive plan for an entrepreneurial project that can be implemented while they are still WFU students. These seminars are primarily intended for junior-level students.Interdisciplinary seminars are designed to emphasize the discovery of new knowledge and to expose students to the fertile intersections between disciplines. They should foster new and creative ways of thinking and new approaches to problems. These seminars are primarily intended for senior-level students. Previous Upper-Level SeminarsESE 203: Introduction to Professional Writing -- Professor Mary Martin Niepold, English -- This is a hands-on course to sharpen writing skills for a variety of purposes: Internet content, business documents, public relations, advertising/marketing tools, etc. Students will produce a fully operating model for business writing for a local organization. Also listed as JOU283. Click here for the Spring 2007 syllabus. Click here for the Spring 2008 syllabus. Religious Intolerance in the United States (ESE 306/REL 390) --Professor Lynn Neal, Religion-- This course examines how religious intolerance—from hate speech to media coverage to violent acts—has been a persistent theme in the history of the United States. In addition to various forms of religious intolerance, students will also analyze the perpetrators and victims of intolerance. Students will also consider how to combat religious intolerance through a venture project. A website that educates others about the historical and present reality of religious intolerance will be created. Click here for the Spring 2008 syllabus. Biomimetics: Nature's Way --Professor William Conner, Biology and Professor Dwayne Godwin, WFU School of Medicine and Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences-- This seminar will explore “Nature’s Way” of solving real world problems and how Nature’s answers can provide the basis for new inventions and novel ways of thinking. Click here for the Fall 2007 syllabus. ESE 202: Building a Better Biology Book: the Accessible Textbook Project -- Professor Dan Johnson, Biology -- Hands–on project requiring the skills of juniors and seniors from multiple disciplines. Participants assist in developing a prototype for an introductory biology textbook. Collaborative teams conduct preliminary market research, design the book format, develop a set of authoring tools, write the content of one prototype chapter, and assess the instructional effectiveness of their final product. P-POI. Click here for the Spring 2007 syllabus. ESE 201: Free Trade, Fair Trade: Independent Entrepreneurs in the Global Market -- Professor Jeanne Simonelli, Anthropology -- This seminar will explore the barriers to market participation experienced by independent entrepreneurs in the US and select developing countries, then design a project that will both help these producers transcend such obstacles, and educate the general public about the products they buy. Click here for the Spring 2006 syllabus. Click here for the Fall 2007 syllabus. Accounting and Financial Management for Entrepreneurs -- Professor Terry Baker, Accounting -- At an early stage, entrepreneurs discover that they need to tell the financial aspect of their story and be able to communicate this story using standard accounting language. The model for telling the story is a business plan. This course focuses on critical accounting and financial management issues within the business plan such as cash flow planning, measuring market potential, financial statement projections, and identifying capital needs. Click here for the Spring 2006 syllabus. Religion and Public Life (ULS/REL 332) --Professor Stephen Boyd, Religion-- An examination of alternative historical paradigms withing specific religous traditions and the implications of those paradigms for the public activity of their adherents. Traditions and topics, including religious leadership, social entrepreneurship, and the separation of church and state, may vary with instructor. This course (Fall 2005) will focus on Christianity, issues of leadership, power, and the differences among service, advocacy and organizing their respective goals, as well as their roots in three dominant theological paradigms in Christian history. Click here for the Fall 2005 syllabus. Designer Antibodies: Creating a Life Science Company -- Professor Ray Kuhn, Biology -- Many start-up companies enter the field of biotechnology in areas of agriculture, diagnostics and therapeutics. Predominantly, these companies target markets in human health and nutrition or research in these areas. A market which has not been addressed is that regarding the development of products for monitoring the health status of fish in the aquaculture industry and for basic research on indicators of fish health. Products to address problems of aquaculture include immunologically based reagents for measuring antibody levels in fish and specific tests for immunodiagnostics of fish diseases. Students will plan the company to include considerations of management, research and production facilities, personnel, marketing research, product development, regulatory requirements (USDA), licenses and fees, capital requirements and funding, and corporate structure. A company name will be chosen, corporate officers chosen, and a web site developed. These efforts will be completed during the first semester and a business plan submitted for competition. During the second semester, the students will identify a test market and will produce for sale at least one product. Click here for the Fall 2004 syllabus.
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| Overview |
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The Wake Forest program offers courses in entrepreneurship in the various liberal arts divisions as first-year seminars, upper-level seminars, and core courses. The program also offers an interdisciplinary minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise. Additional entrepreneurship and business courses are offered through the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy and the Babcock Graduate School of Management. Click here for more information on the Wake Forest academic program in entrepreneurship: |
| Graduate Business Courses |
Babcock School of ManagementThe Babcock School of Management offers a primary and secondary concentration in entrepreneurship. Unlike traditional entrepreneurship programs that focus attention on preparing students to launch their own businesses after graduation, Babcock's entrepreneurial education is defined broadly. It includes new business ventures, corporate ventures within existing companies, service providers (venture capitalists, consultants, attorneys) working with new ventures, social entrepreneurship within the nonprofit sector, and family and closely-held businesses. Courses offered include:
More than 90% of all full-time students take one of these entrepreneurship electives and more than 70% take two or more. Faculty members who teach these courses come from a diverse group of 15 full-time, part-time and executive faculty. Contact Dr. Stan Mandel for more information at 336-758-3689. |
| Undergrad Business Courses |
Courses offered in the Wayne Calloway School of Business and Accountancy
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| First-Year Seminars |
First-Year SeminarsFirst-year seminars are designed to elicit intense intellectual interchange, both written and oral, in a seminar setting in which all participate in critical thinking and analysis of arguments. Faculties from the various disciplines will frame discussions of entrepreneurship within their disciplines, from perspectives as wide ranging as the potential impacts on commerce, politics, the arts, the development of western thought, or scientific discoveries. 2008/2009 First-Year SeminarsSpring 2009Harnessing Life's Molecular Machines: From AIDS Tests to Hydrogen Cars (Spring 2009) --Professor Jed Macosko, Physics -- In this seminar students will explore the submicroscopic resources found inside living cells: tiny machines made up of amino acids and DNA. These molecular machines undergird every living system and nearly all biotechnological devices and methods. The goal of this class will be to learn how these machines perform their manifold functions and how biotechnologists harness them to make useful innovations. After culling ideas from Wake Forest University professors and off-campus entrepreneurs, students will draft proposals that leverage those ideas in order to create value. Particular emphasis will be placed on the value of “appropriate technology” — inexpensive AIDS tests for developing countries, for example—and on energy conscious technology, such as hydrogen producing molecular machines. Click here for the Spring 2009 syllabus. Fall 2008Entrepreneurs in American History (Fall 2008) --Professor Robert Whaples, Department of Economics -- This seminar will examine the motives, strategies and impacts of entrepreneurs in the past, as a way to understand the challenges facing entrepreneurs of today. It will cast a wide historical net, taking a broad view of entrepreneurship -- including entrepreneurs in business, finance and the policy arena, as well as those involved in social, religious and labor movements. The approach will blend biography with a broader view of the economy and society of each period and theories about entrepreneurship. Click here for the Fall 2008 syllabus. The Dirt on Development: Entrepreneurial and Environmental Approaches to Solving the World's Problems (Fall 2008) --Professor Emily Wakild, Department of History -- Have you ever wondered how some individuals make a big difference? In this course, students will examine what strategies these difference-makers use to solve the world's problems and investigate how they can be applied elsewhere. To do so, we will analyze and debate problems of development regarding disease, hunger, finance, sustainability, and environmental change in various areas of the world including our own community. Click here for the Fall 2008 syllabus. 2007/2008 First-Year SeminarsSpring 2008 Artists Inventing Markets (Spring 2008) --Professor Bernadine Barnes, Department of Art -- While we naturally think of visual artists as the epitome of creativity, we do not often think of them as successful entrepreneurs —people who not only had innovative ideas, but who created new ways to put their ideas before the public in a meaningful way. In this First-Year Seminar, we will explore notions of creativity from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. We will then concentrate on particular artists (such as Raphael, Rembrandt, Courbet, andCassatt) as we discover how individual artists worked within — and broke through —limitations to their creativity, and how they found ways to let their ideas and inventions be known to a broader public. Finally, we will compare the experiences of these historic artists to artists of our own time. Click here for the Spring 2008 syllabus. Harnessing Life’s Molecular Machines: From AIDS Tests To Hydrogen Cars (Spring 2008) --Professor Jed Macosko, Physics -- In this seminar students will explore the submicroscopic resources found inside living cells: tiny machines made up of amino acids and DNA. These molecular machines undergird every living system and nearly all biotechnological devices and methods. The goal of this class will be to learn how these machines perform their manifold functions and how biotechnologists harness them to make useful innovations. After culling ideas from Wake Forest University professors and off-campus entrepreneurs, students will draft proposals that leverage those ideas in order to create value. Particular emphasis will be placed on the value of “appropriate technology” — inexpensive AIDS tests for developing countries, for example—and on energy conscious technology, such as hydrogen producing molecular machines. Click here for the Spring 2008 syllabus. Understanding Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Perspective (Spring 2008) -- Professor Jeff Rosenthal, Sociology -- This course examines the growth of formal work in a capitalist economy, then focuses upon different explanations for entrepreneurship. It concludes with an in-depth analysis of the growth of wineries as small businesses in North Carolina and assesses the circumstances that have made such growth possible as well as the characteristics of the individuals involved. Border Crossings: Creativity in the Mix and the Margins (Spring 2008) -- Professor Lynn Book, Theatre and Dance -- This course is for adventurers, interlopers, thieves and the just plain curious. Venture into unknown and sometimes unruly territories on the frontiers of creativity. Here we will chart the incredible cross-fertilizations that have occurred over the last several years between and betwixt ideas and cultures. We will stake out our research from the perspective of the 'Big Four' of the Arts: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts and Music, learning how they have dramatically metamorphosied, yielding new forms in the mix of disciplines and in the margins between them. What is it that makes someone creative and how do certain behaviors get designated as such? Gain a contemporary, critical overview of the striking array of transdisciplinary trends in the arts and encounter the notion that you, yourself can become a creative agent in everything that you do. Professional Baseball: The Globalization of the National Pastime (Spring 2008) -- Professor Charles (Hank) Kennedy, Political Science -- This seminar explores aspects of professional baseball in a multidisciplinary manner. During the course, students will be confronted with the history of the development of professional baseball in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. Students will also confront among other issues related to ethnicity and race, the globalization of business, and the legalities of Anti-Trust and union legislation. Click here for the Spring 2008 syllabus. 2006/2007 First-Year SeminarsSpring 2007 Harnessing Life’s Molecular Machines: From AIDS Tests to Hydrogen Cars (Spring 2007) -- Professor Jed Macosko, Department of Physics -- In this seminar students will explore the submicroscopic resources found inside living cells: tiny machines made up of amino acids and DNA. These molecular machines undergird every living system and nearly all biotechnological devices and methods. The goal of this class will be to learn how these machines perform their manifold functions and how biotechnologists harness them to make useful innovations. After culling ideas from Wake Forest University professors and off-campus entrepreneurs, students will draft proposals that leverage those ideas in order to create value. Particular emphasis will be placed on the value of “appropriate technology” — inexpensive AIDS tests for developing countries, for example—and on energy conscious technology, such as hydrogen producing molecular machines. Click here for the Spring 2007 syllabus. Professional Baseball: The Globalization of the National Pastime (Spring 2007) -- Professor Charles (Hank) Kennedy, Political Science -- This seminar explores aspects of professional baseball in a multidisciplinary manner. During the course, students will be confronted with the history of the development of professional baseball in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. Students will also confront among other issues related to ethnicity and race, the globalization of business, and the legalities of Anti-Trust and union legislation. Click here for the Spring 2007 syllabus. Fall 2006Biomimetics: Nature's Way (Fall 2006) -- Professor William Conner, Department of Biology -- This seminar will explore “Nature’s Way” of solving real world problems and how Nature’s answers can provide the basis for new inventions and novel ways of thinking. Click here for the Fall 2006 syllabus. Border Crossings: Creativity in the Mix and the Margins (Fall 2006) -- Professor Lynn Book, Department of Theatre and Dance -- This course is for adventurers, interlopers, thieves and the just plain curious. Venture into unknown and sometimes unruly territories on the frontiers of creativity. Here we will chart the incredible cross-fertilizations that have occurred over the last several years between and betwixt .elds, ideas and cultures. We will stake out our research from the perspective of the ‘Big Four’ of the Arts: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts and Music, learning how they have dramatically metamorphosed, yielding new forms in the mix of disciplines and in the margins between them. What is it that makes someone creative and how do certain behaviors get designated as such? Gain a contemporary, critical overview of the striking array of transdisciplinary trends in the arts and encounter the notion that you, yourself can become a creative agent in everything that you do. Games and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture (Fall 2006) -- Professor Yue-Ling Wong, Department of Computer Science -- Computer games are an enormous entertainment business. They have touched so many of our lives. The computer game, itself, as well as the culture it produces, are worth serious study. The goals of this seminar are to analyze and to critique both the aesthetic qualities and the substance of these games, from (1) the computer science points of view, and (2) the aesthetic and humanist points of view. Students will also explore the history of computer games and take a closer look at the entrepreneurs who developed these products and the passion it took to make an innovative idea into reality. Click here for the Fall 2006 syllabus. 2005/2006 First-Year SeminarsSpring 2006 American Indian Communities in Urban America: Toward Cultural and Economic Well Being (Spring 2006) -- Professor Ulrike Wiethaus, Interdisciplinary Humanities -- This seminar will explore American Indian urban cultures and entrepreneurship from an interdisciplinary perspective. As participants in the innovative Kauffman initiative, students will collaborate with the Guilford Native American Association to study urban issues and to develop appropriate business plans. Click here for the Spring 2006 syllabus. Social Entrepreneurship: Doing Good While Doing Well (Spring 2006) -- Professor Cynthia Skaar, Business and Accountancy -- Are you concerned about social problems like pollution, poverty, global warming, environmental and species destruction, education or civil rights and want to make a difference in the world? This course explores the emerging idea that it is possible for dedicated individuals to champion effectively social change by tapping into free market principles. Students will learn and put into practice entrepreneurial skills including how to evaluate ideas to solve social problems, write a business plan and obtain funding. Click here for the Spring 2006 syllabus. Fall 2005Border Crossings: Creativity in the Mix and the Margins (Fall 2005)-- Professor Lynn Book, Department of Theatre and Dance -- This course is for adventurers, interlopers, thieves and the just plain curious. Venture into unknown and sometimes unruly territories on the frontiers of creativity. Here we will chart the incredible cross-fertilizations that have occurred over the last several years between and betwixt .elds, ideas and cultures. We will stake out our research from the perspective of the ‘Big Four’ of the Arts: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts and Music, learning how they have dramatically metamorphosed, yielding new forms in the mix of disciplines and in the margins between them. What is it that makes someone creative and how do certain behaviors get designated as such? Gain a contemporary, critical overview of the striking array of transdisciplinary trends in the arts and encounter the notion that you, yourself can become a creative agent in everything that you do. Click here for the Fall 2005 syllabus. Games and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture (Fall 2005) -- Professor Yue-Ling Wong, Computer Science -- Computer games are an enormous entertainment business. They have touched so many of our lives. The computer game, itself, as well as the culture it produces, are worth serious study. The goals of this seminar are to analyze and critique both the aesthetic qualities and the substance of these games from (1) the computer science point of view, and (2) the aesthetic and humanist points of view. Click here for the Fall 2005 syllabus. Professional Baseball: The Globalization of the National Pastime (Fall 2005) -- Professor Charles (Hank) Kennedy, Political Science -- This seminar explores aspects of professional baseball in a multidisciplinary manner. During the course, students will be confronted with the history of the development of professional baseball in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. Students will also confront among other issues related to ethnicity and race, the globalization of business, and the legalities of Anti-Trust and union legislation. Click here for the Fall 2005 syllabus. 2004/2005 First-Year SeminarsSpring 2005 Biological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Spring 2005) -- Professor William Conner, Department of Biology -- This seminar will explore Biology's Greatest Hits and how they have influenced the world. How do innovative ideas originate? Is it inspiration or perspiration? How does one move from basic science to the business place? The students will interact with the local biotech industry to get hands-on experience with the transition from the laboratory to the real world. Click here for the Spring 2005 syllabus. Entrepreneurship in Commerce, Philanthropy, and Politics (Spring 2005) -- Professor Daniel Hammond, Department of Economics -- In commerce, entrepreneurs provide the creative energy that supports growing income and wealth. More generally, and in the context of philanthropy and politics, the term entrepreneur is used for the role of one who marshals people and resources behind a creative vision. This seminar uses American history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to examine the social consequences of entrepreneurship in commerce, philanthropy, and politics. Click here for the Spring 2005 syllabus. Understanding Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Perspective (Spring 2005) -- Professor Ian Taplin, Department of Sociology -- This course examines the growth of formal work in a capitalist economy then focuses upon different explanations for entrepreneurship. It concludes with an in-depth analysis of the growth of wineries as small businesses in North Carolina and assesses the circumstances that have made such growth possible as well as the characteristics of the individuals involved. Click here for the Spring 2005 syllabus. Fall 2004 Women Entrepreneurs in Literature and Life (Fall 2004) -- Professor Anne Boyle, Department of English, Director, Women's and Gender Studies Program -- Reading fictional accounts representing both the domestic and the entrepreneurial world in 19th and 20th century America, students will analyze the variety of historic, cultural, and psychological forces that have propelled women to move away from or between an exclusively private domestic world and the public world where they own and manage their own businesses. We will explore the ways that gender ideology and performance inhibit and/or enhance the opportunities and the lives these women create for themselves. During the second part of the semester, students will research both American and international women entrepreneurs and explore the real life issues that inform the fictions and gender theories they have been studying. Click here for the Fall 2004 syllabus.
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