ENTREP 395: The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Leaders
Quarter Offered
None
Prerequisites
PSYCH 110 recommended but not required.
Description
This course will integrate current research on leadership and personality science within the context of entrepreneurialism. We will review current models of personality and leadership and extend this work to entrepreneurial leadership to better understand the characteristics and mechanisms underlying the ability of successful entrepreneurs to disrupt, innovate, and transform. In this course, we will define entrepreneurial leadership and examine aspects of personality that promote effective entrepreneurial leadership as well as those aspects that derail it. The full context of leadership personality will incorporate research on personality traits, motivations, identity, culture, the personality of teams, and the personality of companies. Assignments will include a series of self-assessments that encourage students to apply content from the course to their own leadership style, as well as personality-based analyses of successful founders.
This course has been renamed from Entrepreneurial Leadership. The course contents have not changed, so if you have taken ENTREP 395: Entrepreneurial Leadership, you should not take this course.
Faculty
Course Details
- Requirements that this course satisfies: Serves as leadership core requirement for the Farley undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship and fulfills an elective for the Farley graduate minor in entrepreneurship.
- Duration: 3-hour course sessions, once per week (3-hour courses include regular breaks and are broken into lecture, discussion, and groupwork portions); 1 quarter
- Class size: 50 students
- Course numbers: ENTREP 395 & PSYCH 346
- Who Should Enroll: Any undergraduate student interested in expanding their knowledge of the psychology of leadership in entrepreneurship.