The Effect of Entrepreneurship Courses on The Career Interests of PBI Students

The Entrepreneurship course aims to provide entrepreneurial provisions; so, there are opportunities to start entrepreneurship and become a career option. Several PBI students at UIN Ar-Raniry seemed interested in taking this elective course without first seeing the impact and benefits of the course for those who had prepared for their careers as teachers. The participants were purposively selected; they were English education students who took entrepreneurship courses. The data collection was carried out using the interview as a research instrument. Then the data was transcribed and analyzed. The results of the interviews showed that some of the effects they get from entrepreneurship courses, especially related to their career interests, namely the urgency of entrepreneurship courses as an alternative practice for personal knowledge in seeing future career opportunities, the benefits of entrepreneurship courses as a new knowledge for those who focus as teacher students, the development of PBI curriculum courses is currently quite good in terms of the availability of adequate syllabus and theory, in terms of expectations for entrepreneurship courses there is a desire for more practical learning as a test of the theory students have learned, the relationship between entrepreneurship courses and language learning English can be seen by the opportunities they take accompanied by proficient English skills, in terms of the influence on interest as a teacher it is not visible, the entrepreneurship course shows strengthening for those who from the start had entrepreneurial intentions and considered entrepreneurship as an alternative career in the future. Based on these results, the entrepreneurship course affected student career interests, in which students were interested and perceived entrepreneurship as an alternative that can be tried without affecting their future job or profession as teachers.