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ENTREP 395, 495: The Agile Pitch: Improvisational Storytelling

Quarter Offered

Spring: tbd

Prerequisites

None.

Description

This course teaches students across disciplines how to inspire other people to believe in them. Through tools and techniques from Suneel Gupta’s book, Backable, and research-backed improvisation exercises taught by experts from The Second City, students will learn the subtle art and behavioral science of how to express new ideas in a way that moves people to action. 

This course has been renamed from Backable: Building an Innovation Practice. The course contents have not changed, so if you have taken ENTREP 395/495: Backable: Building an Innovation Practice, you should not take this course.


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Course Details

Requirements that this course satisfies: Serves as the marketing requirement for the Farley undergraduate minor and fulfills the elective requirement for the Farley graduate minor in entrepreneurship. 

Duration: 80-minute course sessions, twice per week; 1 quarter 

Class size: 30 students 

Course number: ENTREP 395/495 

Who Should Enroll: Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in expanding their knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation.  

 

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