MNGT 137 Independent Contracting (3 credits)
Course Description
An introduction to running one’s own business. Students will explore the techniques and responsibilities for successfully managing an independent career.
Course Content
A. Legal formats
B. Finances
C. Taxes
D. Contracts
E. Time management
F. Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis)
G. Operations
H. Sales and marketing
I. Viable Business Plan
Student Outcomes
1. Identify a legal business format to use and support decision.
2. Explain requirements for setting up basic bookkeeping, including taxes, expenses and purchases.
3. Review contracts for critical points, such as payment schedule, delivery requirements, rights and responsibilities, and propose reasonable amendments. 4. Create a time management plan that includes effective amounts of time for completing professional activities and business operations.
5. Analyze own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) to improve marketability.
6. Create a marketing plan of action, including networking and social media.
7. Create a written viable business plan using external research.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes: Use appropriate technological tools to create, compile and report business information. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
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