Minor Requirements
The Entrepreneurship minor consists of a minimum of twelve (12) semester hours.
The required Entrepreneurship courses occur in a four (4) semester sequence starting in your second semester of your sophomore year or your first semester of your junior year (but no later than the second semester of your junior year).
Entrepreneurship Minor
Required Courses
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ENT-280 Opportunity Recognition and Discovery
Prerequisites:
SBS 101;Sophomore Standing.
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Ever wonder how entrepreneurs get their ideas? In this course, you will learn a deliberate process of opportunity recognition and discovery. You will learn how to generate ideas taking into consideration rarity, value, and your entrepreneurial fit. Through this process, you will gain an understanding or your knowledge, skills and abilities intended to improve the likelihood of success. Once your opportunity is identified, you will determine the feasibility of its feasibility from concept to an industry and competitive analysis.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
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ENT-300 Legal and Financial Risk With Startups
Prerequisites:
ACCT 201 AND ENT 280.
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Expand upon your feasibility plan from ENT 280, or identify a new opportunity, and learn about the financial and legal considerations that need to be addressed to determine whether or not your opportunity is a go or no go with respect to moving your opportunity forward towards business plan development. Legal topics include: business organization, employment practices, taxation and independent contractors, intellectual property, contracts and governance. Financial topics include: verifying the business model and related cost structure, making credible assumptions, preparing forecast financial statements, all leading to a final presentation pitching the feasibility of your opportunity.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
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ENT-315 Entrepreneurial Skills
Prerequisites:
ENT 280
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Knowledge of business alone, or having an idea, is not sufficient for the entrepreneur. You must also learn how to manage yourself and others as you prepare for you first day of business. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to build and lead a startup or growing organization through lessons and experiential team projects. Skills covered in this course include: self management, negotiations, networking, sales, conflict/collaboration, and teams.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
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ENT-326 Writing the Business Plan
Prerequisites:
ENT 300, ACCT 201, ACCT 202 and Junior Standing.
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Use your knowledge from your entrepreneurship courses and experience up to this point to create a viable business plan that will lend credibility to the viability of your potential audience, which may include investors, financial institutions, suppliers, family or friends. In this course, you will write a business plan that shapes your opportunity into a model that resembles a venture. You will then defend the plan addressing the ventures business model, management team, organization, customers, markets, competitors, operations and risk, all leading to financials that will determine the amount of capital you will need, as well as financing alternatives.
Term:
Offered Both Fall and Spring
Note for College of Arts and Sciences Students
In addition to the above four (4) courses, students from the College of Arts and Sciences are required to take SBS 101 Business Foundations before starting the Entrepreneurship minor
