Courses
Students must enroll in both courses, which are taken in parallel. One is in the classroom and the other is in the field.
 Supporting Emerging Enterprises
(EEE 400/600/IRP 400/600, 3 credits, graduate or undergraduate)
This course introduces students to the South African context, township entrepreneurship, the basics of the consulting process, the SEE consulting model, and creative yet practical approaches to addressing managerial issues in emerging enterprises. It is offered at the Stellenbosch University campus.
Entrepreneurship Field Experience
(EEE 490/690/IRP 490/690, 3 credits, graduate or undergraduate)
This course provides interaction with township entrepreneurs over six weeks as part of structured consulting engagements.
The consulting engagements start at the same time as the class meetings. Teams of three to four students are assigned to work on two projects each. Team members must develop a relationship with the entrepreneur, establish trust, learn as much as possible about the entrepreneur and his/her venture, determine priorities, select tasks that can be accomplished within the time of the consulting engagement, perform the  necessary research and analysis on possible solutions to these tasks, and design detailed solutions and related action plans. There is heavy interaction and mentoring of the teams by the three faculty members involved in the program. A final consulting project report summarizes the teams' assessment of each venture and the set of deliverables produced for the clients. Students must also maintain journals of their experiences. Click here to see an example a student's journal. This student created a blog as his journal during the 2006 trip, and he still continues to post comments and articles relating to his areas of interest. This demonstrates that students' experiences in South Africa do not necessarily have to end with the program.
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