The aim of Entrepreneurship is to engender an individual's potential to initiate personal, community, and business ventures.

Awareness: to develop an awareness and understanding of the economic and personal factors that influence the success of entrepreneurial ventures.

Business Environment: to develop an responsiveness to learning and change in a business environment that will include decision making, problem solving and a sense of entrepreneurship

Self-Image and Personal-Use Skills: to encourage the development of self-esteem and personal use skills through the process of initiating, planning, and implementing an entrepreneurial venture recognizing the venture success or failure as separate from personal success or failure

Employment Skills: to acquire skills required to initiate a business venture and the awareness of further competencies required for the implementations of entrepreneurial ventures.

Business and Entrepreneurship Attitudes: to take a practical approach to one's potential and opportunities to initiate ventures based on informed risk-taking.

Communications: to develop effective social and communication skills for business environments.

The purpose of any entrepreneurship course should be to nurture a spirit of innovation in students. Students in entrepreneurship studies are encouraged to find new ways to view problems, and to examine the process of change and its importance to personal, family, community, and global activity.

How can entrepreneurship be taught? This course will attempt to educate students about the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, recognizing that entrepreneurial skills and behaviours can be developed. The study of entrepreneurship will provide information on generating innovative ideas, avoiding the problems and pitfalls of entrepreneurship, examining where and how to find assistance and support, and applying learning to personal, community-service, and business ventures. Entrepreneurship motivates students and provides them with support in planning for their success. The course is designed so that students receive a wide range of opportunities for developing and applying entrepreneurial skills, as well as gain exposure to role models and mentors (locally, provincially, nationally, and internationally).

The activity-based learning will be providing opportunities for students to learn by doing, assessing, evaluating and progressing from one step to another through the entrepreneurial process. This may be accomplished by examining case studies, entrepreneurial profiles, or self reports and community examples. The classroom should support this activity by being organized to accommodate the use of media, small and large groups, and in-class and out-of-class activities such as field trips and job shadowing.

Through their classroom experience, students can build self-confidence and self-esteem by developing a greater awareness of their own expectations, attitudes and perceptions. These qualities are essential for entrepreneurial behaviours to be exhibited.

Entrepreneurship (EN) is defined as a Practical and Applied Art at the Secondary Level in Saskatchewan. Entrepreneurship 30 is a standalone course, meaning the current Entrepreneurship course will not be a prerequisite for another course nor does it require prerequisites at grades 10 or 11.

Foundational objectives are the major, general statements that guide what each student is expected to achieve for the modules of the PAA curriculum guidelines. Foundational objectives indicate the most important knowledge, skills, attitudes/values, and abilities for a student to learn in a subject. Both the Foundational Objectives for Entrepreneurship 30 and the Common Essential Learnings (CELs) Foundational Objectives to be emphasized are stated in this document. Some of these statements may be repeated or enhanced in different modules for emphasis. The Foundational Objectives of the modules of the Entrepreneurship 30 curriculum include:

• To understand entrepreneurship and its role and contribution to personal, school, and community life.
• To develop entrepreneurial skills that may contribute to the success of the students' practical learning experience.
• To assess opportunities at home, school, and in the community and to develop those opportunities by applying personal experience, knowledge, and expertise.
• To generate and assess ideas to be partnered with a legitimate opportunity at home, school, or in the community.
• To investigate the types of resources and sources that may be used to evaluate and plan an entrepreneurial venture.
• To develop a venture plan that can be used as a planning tool for a specific potential opportunity and idea.
• To explore the career choices available to the entrepreneur/intrapreneur.

Entrepreneurship 30 is based on 100 hours of instruction. It will be helpful to provide a balance between theory and practical experience in an entrepreneurial environment. Ideally, students will plan and embark on a venture during the progression of the course, but school and community diversity will in part determine the opportunities that are available to do so.

Career exploration, Transition-to-Work and a smooth transition from high school to post-secondary education or work are important goals in all PAA courses of study. This course is a Practical and Applied Arts option which is a specified elective at the Secondary Level.