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Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

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Overview

Subject

ENGIN

Course Number

183B

Department

Engineering

Course Level

Undergraduate

Course Title

Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Course Description

This course offers the opportunity to understand the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BME) in an intensive format. The BME curriculum conveys the latest approaches for training global technology entrepreneurs. This method leverages insights on strategy, tactics, culture, and psychology with an accompanying entrepreneurial infrastructure. The curriculum is structured to provide an optimal global entrepreneurship experience from real life experiences.

Minimum

2

Maximum

2

Grading Basis

Default Letter Grade; P/NP Option

Method of Assessment

Alternative Final Assessment

American Cultures Requirement

No

Reading and Composition Requirement

None of the Reading and Composition Requirement

Repeat Rules

Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.

Course Objectives

To understand common tactics in starting new ventures including a lean learning cycle. To understand the mindset of an entrepreneur, including the soft skills, behaviors, and psychological factors most likely to be needed to develop a new venture. * To understand and make use of the value of diversity in idea generation and new venture creation. Student should become aware of the infrastructure available through UC Berkeley that an support them in developing new ventures.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to follow a process of idea generation, rapid prototyping / venture story development, attraction of stakeholders, data collection, and hypothesis testing and regeneration. Students should become aware of the mindset and behaviour required for entreprenurship and be able to reinforce some of these behavious (eg rejection tolerance, comfort with failing or being wrong, inductive learning, venture story telling/communication abilities) through excercizes in the program. Students should be able to consider a greater number of ideas for global entrepreneurship by observing the effect of background diversity in the class.

Formats

Lecture, Discussion

Term

Summer

Duration (in weeks)

1

Minimum Hours

30

Maximum Hours

30

Lecture Mode of Instruction

In Person

Minimum Hours

20

Maximum Hours

20

Discussion Mode of Instruction

In Person

Outside Work Hours Min

40

Maximum Hours

40

Term

Fall and Spring

Duration (in weeks)

1

Minimum Hours

30

Maximum Hours

30

Lecture Mode of Instruction

In Person

Minimum Hours

20

Maximum Hours

20

Discussion Mode of Instruction

In Person

Outside Work Hours Min

40

Maximum Hours

40
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