Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship 

The challenges of today's business and professional environment-- dramatic change, intense competition, great uncertainty, and significant risk-demand entrepreneurial mindsets, strategies, knowledge, and skills. This is true for large and mature organizations as well as for startups. All companies must continuously reinvent themselves and seek employees that can think outside the box, see the big picture, and integrate across multiple disciplines to create value. The entrepreneurship major provides what's needed to put it all together, create greater value, and quickly gain more responsibility. It's perfect for a double major, those students who think they will sooner or later start a new venture, standalone or in a large organization, or those who have background and interest with a family business. The major has been redesigned to increase substantially experiential content.

All students have access to the Center for Excellence in Entrepreneurship, including an ideation suite and a maker space for creating, inventing and learning. The maker space provides a hands-on area for students to develop, design and prototype everything from new physical products to online business platforms. It is outfitted with the state-of-the-art tools needed to take ideas from concept to reality. The maker space features sophisticated software and a variety of equipment, including a 3D printer and laser engraver for rapid prototyping of new products.

Students: 

•  Learn and apply contemporary entrepreneurial mindsets, strategies, knowledge, and skills
• Engage in the sequence of starting real new ventures starting with a micro business in sophomore year, continuing through courses in junior year, and concluding with the capstone course in senior year with a real venture for commercial standalone or corporate new ventures or social enterprises
• Begin actively building their professional network in the startup, investment, and business communities.

Business Core Courses

Entrepreneurship Required Courses

Entrepreneurship Elective Courses

Students must take one of the following courses. 

(Note: the elective requirement may be dropped for students pursuing a second major or minor within the School of Business.)

Entrepreneurship Minor Courses