Intro to Business

  • Earn 3 transferable credits
  • 100% online and Zoom-free
  • Includes everything you need

Available through dual enrollment at partner high schools

College Credits

Earn 3 credits to save time + money on your degree

Engaging Experience

Top-rated instructors, interactive textbooks + cinematic lectures

In Your High School

The support + structure to thrive in your first college experience

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    OVERVIEW
  • World-Class
    Professor
  • How It
    Works
  • Dedicated
    Support

Course
Overview

If you want to grow your career, or have the spark of a business idea, this course is your can of gasoline.

Welcome to a new kind of business course. You’ll go beyond the jargon to gain fundamental business skills and fluency. From landing that job, to fundraising, management, marketing, and more, this course provides critical tools for modern business. You’ll even come away with a basic business plan.

Using recent real-world examples and his own business savvy, Dr. Jim Mourey will show you that business isn’t just about making money. It’s about how to change the world.



World-Class
Professor

Named one of Poets and Quants’ “Best Business Professors Under 40,” Dr. Jim Alvarez Mourey passionately weaves his experiences as a first-generation college student, an accomplished marketer, seasoned researcher, and a renowned business teacher, into every aspect of this course.



How It
Works

Enjoy cinematic video lessons and enhance your learning with gorgeous interactive textbooks based on evidence-based active learning principles.

When it is time for exams, open windows are designed to fit around your schedule.



Dedicated
Support

Hit a snag on the site? Have a burning question? We’ve got you covered.

Our dedicated Student Success team is available to assist you—and push you—to help you pass with flying colors.



“...a way to get college credit when life circumstances make it difficult for students.”

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Transferable credits from a top 50 school

You'll earn college credits from the University of Pittsburgh upon course completion.

Meet your instructor

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Jim Mourey Ph.D.

DePaul University

Jim Mourey is an associate professor of marketing at the Richard H. Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University.

Mourey’s research explores the role of intuition, gut feelings, and nonconscious processes with respect to consumer choice and behavior.

Dr. Mourey integrates his lifetime in the performing arts with his rigorous academic and research training to create entertaining yet educational class and workshop modules that are able to convey rather lofty ideas/theories in accessible, practical, and even fun ways.

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  TRADITIONAL COURSE
Outlier Intro to Business
Credits Usually 3-4 credits from your school 3 transferable credits from the University of Pittsburgh
Format In-person or Zoom Interactive and 100% online (Zoom-free)
Lectures Specific time and place On-demand, anywhere
Exams Specific hour Flexible window

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