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May 05, 2024
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SCSM 101 - Startup Management
This certificate is designed to help you acquire the skills needed to startup your own business. It provides you with the basic knowledge and skills to plan for a new business, choose the right product/service to offer and the market you can serve as well as choosing the best entry strategy for your new ventures. During this certificate you will learn how to develop a business plan, how to set the needed budget and the how to select the best source of financing your business. As well, you will learn how to manage the day-to-day operations of your business and how to select and manage its human capital.

Part of the: Certificate of Achievement in Startup Management

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Identify the characteristics of a successful start-up
2. Acquire the managerial skills needed to administer startup
3. Practice the planning and management skills needed to run a successful business
4. Develop a comprehensive feasibility study
5. Set plans for recruiting and hiring the efficient man power
6. Establish the legal frame for start-up business
7. Design business and Marketing plans
8. Identify the sources of funding start-up business
9. Set measurement tools to evaluate start-up business performance
10.Demonstrate self-awareness, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, teamwork management and all related entrepreneurial skills,

Admission Requirements for the above certificate(s):
1. Applicants must pass the Standardized English Proficiency Test (SEPT) and score level ENGG B1A.
2. Applicants must have basic Computer Literacy

Term duration: 12 Weeks
Schedule: 2 Sessions/week - 2.5 Hrs/Session

Assessments and Attendance:
Learners are assessed throughout the term by tests, quizzes, assignments, projects or other means of evaluation. End-of-term achievement tests measure learners’ overall performance in the course. The final grade in each course is based on learners’ performance on continual assessment measures and the final test. Final course grades are NOT based on attendance, since in accordance with SCE’s attendance policy, learners must attend at least 60% of the class sessions in order to be allowed to take the final examination.


6.000 Continuing Education Units
6.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Continuing Education
Schedule Types: Lecture

SCE Career Development Department

Course Attributes:
SCE-BSD-CSCM/CSPM/CLM

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      Startup Management
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges:     
      School of Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Departments:     
      SCE Career Development

Prerequisites:
SCE Standrdzd Engl Prof.Test 052 or SCE Day Stand Engl Prof. Test 052 or Continuing Education level ENGG A2D Minimum Grade of D

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