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Entrepreneurship (BBS)

This Professional Studies Degree is designed to meet the special demands of adult learners.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

courses

credit hours (bBS)

CORE EXPERIENCE

DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience

3

Professional Studies
DBUE 2301PR - Lifelong Learning (S-L)

3

English

9-10

ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I

ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II

and

ENGL 2301 - World Literature I

or

ENGL 2302 - World Literature I

Fine Arts
FINE 1306 - Introduction to Fine Arts

3

History HIST Lower Level (LL)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List

Kinesiology

1

KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living

Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course)

3

Choose one:

MATH 1301 - Math for Liberal Arts

MATH 1303 - College Algebra

MATH 1307 - Finite Math for Business Analysis

Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course)

3-4

Choose one 3-4 hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List

Religion

9

RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey

RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey

and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List.

Social Science

3

POLS 2301 - American National Government

Total Core Experience

40-42

Additional Program General Education Hours

12

BUAD 1301 - The World of Business

ECON 2301 - Principles of Macroeconomics

ECON 2302 - Principles of Microeconomics

MATH 2301 - Introduction to Statistics

Business Core

16

ACCT 2301 - Principles of Financial Accounting

BUAD 1111 - Excel Certification

BUAD 4009 - Assessment for Graduation

FINA 3301 - Corporate Financial Management

MANA 3301 - Principles of Management (S-L)

MANA 4389 - Global Strategy and Operations

MRKT 3301 - Principles of Marketing

Major Courses

15

Entrepreneurship Major Courses

ENTR 3304 - Market Problems and Solutions

ENTR 3306 - Innovative Technologies: Past, Present, and Future

ENTR 3315 - Systems and Design Thinking (S-L)

UL Elective

UL Elective

Track Choice

9

Innovation Track

ENTR 4306 - Leading Innovation

ENTR 4325 - Project Management Foundations (AGP-eligible)

ENTR 4331 - New Product Development and Marketing (AGP-eligible)

or

Business Startup Track

ENTR 3305 - Marketing in the Startup

ENTR 4320 - Entrepreneurial Finance

ENTR 4330 - New Venture Creation

Electives

Upper-Level

Lower or Upper-Level

0

26-28

For Inverted Degree students, all elective hours can be either lower- or upper-level.*

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED

120

*Inverted Option: Depending on the number of applicable transferred credit hours, a student may be able to use at least 24 technical/occupational credit hours or 24 credit hours in a specific field of study (e.g., credits earned from military transcripts and/or corporate training, etc.) as elective credits for an Inverted Degree. Students should coordinate with their academic advisor to determine if an inverted degree would be beneficial/applicable after all transcripts have been officially evaluated. 

Minimum of 12 credit hours in major in residence at Dallas Baptist University, 9 credit hours of which must be upper-level.

A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.

Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0. 

(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.

Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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