Lucerne >> Marymount California University’s (MCU) Lakeside campus will offer two courses for audit-only this fall semester, with limited availability and by application. Jonathan H. Westover will teach entrepreneurship I and entrepreneurship for social change.
Entrepreneurship I (Bus 315) explores the framework for the principles and practices necessary for the formation and development of a new enterprise. Students will learn what investors look for when assessing a business opportunity.
Entrepreneurship for social change (Bus 415) is an emerging field which asserts that the problems of the world cannot be solved by governments or economic markets. To make real changes, entrepreneurs must act as stewards of their communities and undertake ventures which add social value. This interdisciplinary course is targeted to those students who may consider a social entrepreneurial opportunity early in their careers. This course will include a field project with significant, value-added social service.
To submit an application for audit status in Bus 315 or Bus 415, contact Michelle Scully, MCU Lakeside executive eirector, at mscully@marymountcalifornia.edu. There is a $60/unit audit fee.
Westover is an assistant professor of management and associate director of the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University, specializing in international human resource management, organizational development and community-engaged experiential learning and research.
“We are very excited to have Dr. Westover teaching at MCU Lakeside this semester,” Scully said. “His experience and vision bring a great energy to the campus. Our senior students will be actively involved in Bus 415 as pioneers in our first offering of this course and within this new and expanding field of entrepreneurship for social change. They will be working on senior capstone projects and many have already expressed their personal goal is to contribute to their community. We’ve established collaborative relationships for this course with local business people who share a vision for business combined with social change.
“Dr. Westover’s class will be interacting with the Bus 415 class at the main MCU campus in Southern California, and we look forward to creating an intercampus dialogue between students. We are proud to offer this course as a topic which resonates with MCU’s vision statement of ‘challenging students to pursue lives of leadership and service,’” Scully added.
A recipient of numerous research, teaching, and service awards and fellowships early in his academic career, Westover recently was a Fulbright Scholar and is a regular visiting faculty member in other graduate business programs in the U.S., United Kingdom, Belarus, Poland, and China.
Prior to his doctoral studies in the sociology of work and organizations, comparative international sociology and international political economy at the University of Utah, Westover received his Bachelor of Science in sociology and Master of Public Administrator from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He also received graduate certificates in demography and higher education teaching during his time at the University of Utah.
Westover has published extensively and his ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, work quality characteristics and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally.
MCU’s Lakeside campus is located at 3700 Country Club Drive in Lucerne. Visit www.facebook.com/MarymountLakeside for more information.
