Integrated Business and Entrepreneurship Program
Program Description
Courses
Note: These courses must be taken consecutively and in order: 201, 202, and then 203.
IBE 201
Integrated Business and Entrepreneurship Principles I
The IBE Principles I course offers a hands-on approach to training future business leaders and entrepreneurs. College
instructors and local business and community leaders guide student teams through the process of identifying a business
product or service, conducting market research, and developing a business plan outline.
IBE 202
Integrated Business and Entrepreneurship Principles II
The IBE Principles II course offers a hands-on approach to training future business leaders and entrepreneurs. College
instructors and local business and community leaders guide student teams through development and management of business
operations, including accounting systems, understanding legal and regulatory issues, and identifying and securing
material resources.
IBE 203
Integrated Business and Entrepreneurship Principles III
The IBE Principles III course offers a hands-on approach to training future business leaders and entrepreneurs. College
instructors and local business and community leaders guide student teams through the creation and execution of a
marketing plan and management of human resources. This course concludes with a capstone team presentation of the
business plans developed throughout the IBE program.
View the official program outline
for detailed and up-to-date information about this program.
The IBE program offers a hands-on approach to training our future business leaders and entrepreneurs. Students from all
areas of study will participate in a year-long business experience where they will create a business from the ground up.
Local business and community leaders and college instructors guide student teams through the process of starting and launching
a business. Students will master academic material by producing deliverables in an authentic business environment created on
the SCC campus.
Our classroom will be representative of a corporate office, newly renovated to provide students with a unique learning atmosphere
of the boardroom, with industry standard equipment and technologically enhanced office/classroom space.
Students will only be accepted in the fall quarter, and each will receive a
Certificate of Entrepreneurship upon completion of the spring quarter class.
Applications will be screened by the IBE instructors and Advisory Panel. Applicants will be called for
final interviews.