{
  "college": "coastline-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Business",
  "id": "business--entrepreneurship-essentials-certificate-specialization",
  "name": "Entrepreneurship Essentials",
  "award": "Certificate of Specialization",
  "department": "business",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.cccd.edu/coastline/pathways/business-operations-management/business/entrepreneurship-essentials-certificate-specialization/",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "The Entrepreneurship Essentials program provides students a solid foundation in the business aspects of starting and operating a small business that provides products, services, or both. Students will explore entrepreneurial options and assess the viability of a business concept. Once the concept proves viable, students will develop operations, marketing, and financial plans describing how the business will run. By completing this three-course series, students will have the primary content of a full business plan that can be used to request funding, develop supplier relationships, build a management team, etc.\n\n#### Program Learning Outcomes\n\n1.  Effectively communicate solutions to business problems using appropriate business terms and strategies.\n2.  Analyze and recommend effective business decisions/solutions using a systematic, evaluative, and data-driven approach."
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "### Requirements\n\nReview Graduation Requirements."
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Required Core"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Complete the following:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS C141",
          "title": "Introduction to Entrepreneurship",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS C142",
          "title": "Entrepreneurial Marketing and Operations",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS C143",
          "title": "Entrepreneurial Financial Strategies",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "total",
          "text": "Total Units",
          "units": "9"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}