Small Business Ownership
This six-month program provides students with a working knowledge of entrepreneurship. Students develop a business plan based on an assessment of their own skills, aptitude and interest in their chosen business as well as assessing the readiness of their customers to respond to their product or service. Classes are intended to prepare students to manage and market their product or service.

Requirements

• Business Math: 3 credits
• Introduction to Computers: 3 credits
• Keyboarding I: 3 credits
• Office Procedures II: 3 credits
• Human Relations: 3 credits
• Integrated Software, Software Management Programs and Hardware or Internet, Web Sites and E-Mail Programs: 3 credits
• Small Business Ownership I and II: 6 credits
• Marketing: 3 credits
• Computerized Accounting: 3 credits
  Total: 30 credits

Placement and Career Path
Persons in these positions can advance from being employed to being self-employed. Opportunities include both personal and business-related services and/or products and can be structured as a sole proprietorship or family business. Minneapolis won an award in 2003 from Entrepreneur Magazine as the best city in the country to start a small business, so the environment is helpful for students to succeed with the help of this program.