As a student in the Creativity and Entrepreneurship LLC, you will take three 2-credit-hour academic courses during your first year. This includes an experience in a real-life entrepreneurial business in the Denver area. Through this experience and other projects, you will learn about the many challenges and rewards of starting a business or non-profit and working as an entrepreneur. Each quarter also involves service learning as a dimension of the entrepreneurial process.

Fall Quarter (2 credits)

The first quarter gives you a foundation in entrepreneurship and how to start a business and how to build a strong team in your community. Guest speakers who are starting or have started businesses visit our class to give you a look inside the process of start-up. At this time, you will also choose a local entrepreneurial business to shadow for the year.

Winter Quarter (2 credits)

Operating and growing a business is the theme of the winter quarter. You will engage in a digital media project in which you create a virtual business. Maintaining that virtual business and growing it will teach you how to stay on top of the game in business and provide opportunities to problem solve with your classmates. Guest speakers will visit and provide personal stories about success and failure in growing their own businesses.

Spring Quarter (2 credits)

Creativity is the theme of our final quarter as you and your LLC put on a formal dining event at the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management School. From choosing the menu and ice sculpting to preparing food and table settings, your team will display its efforts and skill for all to see. Again, we invite guest speakers to our class to engage us in some creative activities.