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Approved for Fall 2026 soft launch as an elective. Students enrolling in the new Entrepreneurship AAS degree plan will be able to substitute this course for BMGT 2388 Internship.

Curriculum & Programs cleanup scheduled for Fall 2026. The course is currently slotted under BMGT 2388 (Special Topics) for catalog purposes and will be formally added to the catalog through the C&P process during the semester.

Co-developed by: Russell Holloway (instructor of record) and Robert Jackson, under the direction of Department Chair Dr. Johnny Howard, Assistant Chair Vicky Valdez, and Dean Dr. Lorlie Braxton.

Two facts shape this course.

One. Every business student graduating in 2026 will manage AI workers within five years of entering the workforce. Most will manage them sooner. The skill of managing an AI agent — knowing what to delegate, how to verify output, when to override, and how to build a workflow that combines human judgment with machine speed — is the management skill of the next decade.

Two. The traditional path to teach management skill is the internship — supervised work in a real organization. That path is slow, geographically constrained, and dependent on a supply of willing internship partners. It works, but it doesn't scale, and the cycle time is too slow to keep pace with how fast the AI tooling landscape is moving.

This course offers a parallel path. Instead of placing one student into one company for one supervised internship, every student in the course manages a team of AI agents through every stage of building a real business. The volume of decisions, overrides, and judgment calls a student makes in a semester here is higher than in a traditional internship — and every one of those decisions is documented, reviewed, and graded.

Primary audience: Students in the Entrepreneurship AAS who want practical experience building and launching a business using modern AI tooling. The course substitutes for BMGT 2388 Internship in that degree plan.

Secondary audience: Any business student who wants direct, hands-on experience with AI workforce management before entering the job market. The course is open as an elective in Fall 2026.

Prerequisites: BUSI 1301 Business Principles or equivalent; comfort with basic computer tools; willingness to learn through doing rather than only through reading.

Delivery: In-Person (F2F) / Hybrid Classroom (HYC) — primarily on-campus instruction with the remaining instruction online.

Schedule: 16 weeks · Fall 2026 · August 24 – December 13.

Workload: Standard 3-credit-hour expectation — approximately 9 hours per week including lecture, reading, AI workforce management, and deliverable production.

Tooling: Google Gemini through ACC's Google Workspace for Education (free tier covers base needs; premium tier evaluated on a per-need basis). Optional integration with other AI tools as the landscape evolves.

Russell Holloway is an Adjunct Professor in Business Studies at Austin Community College. He teaches BUSI 2305 Business Statistics and is an active entrepreneur building an AI-managed business. He brings the practical perspective of a founder running an AI-augmented operation to the classroom.

This course is being co-developed with Robert Jackson, also of the ACC Business Studies department.