Cannabis Business Certificate
Leadership
- Medical Advisor, Cannabis Programs
- Associate Professor
Course Descriptions
The courses in the certificate program are designed to accommodate and interest students with diverse academic background and career interests. Students may enroll into the program in fall, spring, or summer.
Our cannabis courses are taught by faculty members who are recognized as national experts and leaders in the cannabis field. All cannabis courses are online and mostly asynchronous.
CBU 501 Emerging Issues in the Cannabis Industry
Students will learn about and engage in course activities related to the history of cannabis and the rapidly developing trends in cannabis business, laws, regulations, and ethics. In particular, students will examine emerging practices, concepts, and issues in the cannabis industry relating to regulatory framework, illicit cannabis market, operating in cash, taxation, human resources, and social justice and equity.
CBU 506 Essentials of Cannabis Financial & Operations Analysis
This course introduces the use of accounting information as a basis for planning, control, and managerial decisions. In particular, students will gain an understanding of core accounting concepts, financial statements, and how to make financing, investing, and operating decisions that will create value for organizations. The course also discusses the role of inventory management in supply chain and logistics.
CBU 509 Industrial Hemp, Process, & Products
In this course, we will explore the industrial hemp agricultural and manufacturing industry by focusing on the materials, processes, products, and economics in the industrial hemp supply chain. Specifically, we will examine the: Agricultural processes used in growing industrial hemp plants; Material science of the hemp plant as an industrial raw material; Engineering processes needed to transform hemp biomass into new material forms; Products and markets that utilize hemp-derived materials; Business models and supply chains used by industrial hemp businesses; Sustainability in the hemp industry at a holistic, systems level (technically, environmentally, economically, and socially); Supporting infrastructure necessary to sustain a growing industrial hemp industry.
MBX 604 Business Model Innovation
In this course students fully explore how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value through a customer-centric approach to business model innovation. The impact of industry disruption through business model innovation will be explored as students analyze and evaluate existing models. Using creative thinking and specific patterns, students will gain experience in planning and executing new models to address the complex challenges facing businesses from a variety of industries in the marketplace today.
CSO 522 Cannabis Policy, Politics, & Regulation
This course will serve as a survey course of cannabis policy at the federal, state, and local levels. The goal is for students to understand the politics behind the cannabis reform debate and the policy outcomes that emerge from those debates. While many voters believe that the choice whether to legalize cannabis for medical- or adult-use is the end of the policy conversation, it really marks the beginning of a longer process. Creating, implementing and enforcing a cannabis regulatory system is the most arduous, complicated and important portions of this area of policy. Over the course of this semester, we will identify the major regulatory questions and areas that state and local governments encounter and examine the solutions governments have devised. We will compare and contrast these efforts to identify where regulatory choices work, where they do not, and how they can be improved.