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Students develop fundamental skills in creative entrepreneurship and explore ways to attract capital. This experientially based class draws from time-tested entrepreneurial methods to assist students, regardless of their discipline, to create entrepreneurially. Students also learn to act entrepreneurially within existing organizations, entrepreneurship, a process making employees more valuable to the companies they work in and for. Entrepreneurship is an experiential process. Consequently, students in this course engage in games, simulations, demonstrations, and other experiential exercises to offer experiential insights in what it is to act entrepreneurially. Students will also travel to area arts and nonprofit organizations including Meow Wolf in Santa Fe and other sites. Uses experiential learning to gain foundational knowledge of creative entrepreneurship and explore ways to attract capital. Topics include branding, creativity as the keystone of entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, event-based fundraising, leveraging inherent assets, website creation, pitching angel investors and venture capitalists, acting entrepreneurially within existing organizations, navigating startup processes, and other critical entrepreneurship topics.

Companies are expected to do more than make money. They are expected to help the community, foster an inclusive workplace, take stands on divisive political and policy issues, and pursue philanthropic activities that have both real and perceived impact. In this course, students will examine contemporary and real-life challenges in business ethics and corporate social responsibility in the context of New Mexico and the legacy of colonialism and racism against Native Americans. Students will build and hone their ability to understand, adapt to, and evaluate the current challenges in business ethics and CSR, using the local New Mexico economy and Native culture as a case study. Students will grow in their personal awareness of their own ethics and will develop an understanding of how to create real social impact through the variety of tools that will be at their disposal as they enter the corporate world. The final project will be working with a local business/organization to create social impact and mitigate the challenges facing the Native American community in/near Taos. 

Students will explore the research and theories of the psychology of interpersonal conflict, as well as mechanisms for resolving, managing, or avoiding conflict in professional and personal relationships and interactions. Students will gain knowledge and skills in topics such as mindful communication, understanding perspectives, and negotiation, giving them the tools needed to be successful in business and personal relationships. 

Students examine how personal mindsets, choices, behaviors, and outcomes impact their lives, other people’s lives, and their communities. Through coursework grounded in the Assets-Based Community Development Model, students are challenged to think critically about the effect of values, beliefs, and identities on how they engage with others and their communities at large. In a semester-long community engagement project, students learn about themselves and others, apply class content to a community need, and reflect on the experience through a process that can benefit them throughout their lives.