Minor in Entrepreneurship

Students practice creativity through techniques for improving the flexibility and originality of their thinking, thereby developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Using this mindset, students generate ideas and recognize problems worth solving using different creative approaches in various settings and fields. Students work with a team to develop an innovative solution to one of these problems, to identify an audience for it, and to communicate the solution to that audience.Offered: Fall and Spring.

This experiential course continues the process critical to the entrepreneurial mindset. Students will practice human-centered design processes, idea generation and validation, product prototyping, business design and modeling, customer development, and persuasive pitching. This course requires individual and team presentations. Prerequisites: EN 1250 (or equivalent) and (ER 201 or ER 2201).

Applies the skills developed in ER 301 to social enterprises. Introduces the meaning and importance of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy and demonstrates how entrepreneurial orientation can assist in the attainment of nonprofit and social objectives as a means to obtain social justice. Students work in teams to develop a social entrepreneurial project and then present it in oral and written form to entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: (ER 201 of ER2201) and (ER 301 or ER3301). Offered: Fall and Spring.

IIntroduces accounting and finance concepts and fundamentals for an entrepreneurial venture or idea. Focuses on the money needed to start a venture, revenue and expense forecasting, and sources of start-up capital. Also covers business ownership options and issues, and ethical issues as they relate to entrepreneurial finance. Prerequisite: ER 3301 or ER301; College of Arts and Sciences students only. Offered: Fall only.

Introduces marketing and sales concepts for entrepreneurial ventures, using real-life experiences and products to develop marketing and sales programs and to present them to entrepreneurs and business owners. Involves working in teams to develop marketing sales plans and the ability to present ideas in both oral and written form. Prerequisite: ER 3301 or ER 301; College of Arts and Sciences students only. Offered: Spring only.

This course is designed to introduce principles and practical skills of professional selling. Students will develop their communication skills (verbal, written, and listening), learn and demonstrate the selling process through in-class assignments. They will develop knowledge and skills in sales, advertising and marketing.

A capstone course that uses and expands upon the entrepreneurial mindset and skills developed throughout the minor. Students complete a group project that involves the development of a new idea from conception to launch, the presentation of the idea to a group of entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: Completion of at least 12 hours of course work in the entrepreneurship minor. Offered: Fall, Spring.

A capstone course that involves directed and supervised work experience in organization on entrepreneurial ventures. Students will complete a final project and presentation. Prerequisite: Permission of the Program Director, completion of at least 12 hours of course work in the entrepreneurship minor. Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer.

Students practice creativity through techniques for improving the flexibility and originality of their thinking, thereby developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Using this mindset, students generate ideas and recognize problems worth solving using different creative approaches in various settings and fields. Students work with a team to develop an innovative solution to one of these problems, to identify an audience for it, and to communicate the solution to that audience.Offered: Fall and Spring.

This experiential course continues the process critical to the entrepreneurial mindset. Students will practice human-centered design processes, idea generation and validation, product prototyping, business design and modeling, customer development, and persuasive pitching. This course requires individual and team presentations. Prerequisites: EN 1250 (or equivalent) and (ER 201 or ER 2201).

Applies the skills developed in ER 301 to social enterprises. Introduces the meaning and importance of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy and demonstrates how entrepreneurial orientation can assist in the attainment of nonprofit and social objectives as a means to obtain social justice. Students work in teams to develop a social entrepreneurial project and then present it in oral and written form to entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: (ER 201 of ER2201) and (ER 301 or ER3301). Offered: Fall and Spring.

A capstone course that uses and expands upon the entrepreneurial mindset and skills developed throughout the minor. Students complete a group project that involves the development of a new idea from conception to launch, the presentation of the idea to a group of entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: Completion of at least 12 hours of course work in the entrepreneurship minor. Offered: Fall, Spring.

A capstone course that involves directed and supervised work experience in organization on entrepreneurial ventures. Students will complete a final project and presentation. Prerequisite: Permission of the Program Director, completion of at least 12 hours of course work in the entrepreneurship minor. Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer.

Elements of accounting theory, covering revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, and equity; account classification; analysis and recording of transactions; sources of accounting data; corporation accounting; theory of accounting valuations; preparation of financial statements; manufacturing cost flows and analysis. Prerequisite: AC 201 or AC 2201.

Introduces students to the field of marketing. Provides an overview of marketing concepts and strategies critical to value-driven marketing. Emphasis on how to develop, promote, distribute, and price an organization’s offerings in a dynamic economic, social, political, and international environment. Ethical issues are also examined.Prerequisite: Sophomore standing with a minimum of 25 credit hours.