Entrepreneurship-related courses build the entrepreneurial mindset and introduce the processes used to launch, grow, and apply innovative ideas. The Minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation offers flexible coursework open to all majors, allowing students to explore entrepreneurship and innovation as tools for creating meaningful change across industries and career paths.
The Minor requires two courses, ESHP 190 and CAS 114, along with flexible electives that allow students to tailor the Minor to their goals while pairing coursework with hands-on experiences.
CAS 114: Creativity and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Creative processes, complex problem solving and innovative entrepreneurship. Examination of successful social, cultural and corporate thinkers and creators. Activities focused on inquiry, observation, experimentation and networking for situational problem solving.
ESHP 190: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Aspects of the entrepreneurial experience. The entrepreneurial mindset and the venture creation process. Foundation for getting a venture started, and understanding of what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
ACC 230: Survey of Accounting Concepts
ACM 271: Introduction to Arts and Cultural Management
BE 440: Entrepreneurial Engineering for Innovation in Health and Safety
CAS 214: Social Media and the Start-Up
CSUS 200: Introduction to Sustainability
CSUS 473: Social Entrepreneurship and Community Sustainability
EGR 100: Introduction to Engineering Design
EGR 440: Engineering Entrepreneurship
ESHP 170: Business Model Design and Prototyping
ESHP 230: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
ESHP 255: Entrepreneurship for the Social Good
ESHP 424: Apple IOS Design Lab I
ESHP 425: Apple IOS Design Lab II
ESHP 480: Innovation in Action
ESHP 491: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
FOR: 435 Business Innovation Toward a Sustainable BioEconomy
FSC 470: Integrated Approaches to Food Product Development
FI 444: Entrepreneurial Finance
GBL 467: Emerging Enterprise Law
GD 295: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
HB 358: Hospitality Entrepreneurship
HRT 407: Horticulture Marketing
ME 497: Biomechanical Design in Product Development
HRT 404: Horticulture Management (W)
MGT 325: Management Skills and Processes
MGT 352: Entrepreneurship: New Venture Process
MI 301: Bringing Media to Market
MI 450: Creating Human-Centered Technology (W)
MI 452: Media Entrepreneurship and Business Strategies
MI 462: Social Media and Social Computing
MI 472: Digital Business and Commerce
MI 480: Information and Communication Technologies and Development
MI 488: Information and Communication Technology Development Project (W)
MKT 355: Entrepreneurial Marketing
MKT 410: Product Innovation and Management
MKT 420: New Product Design and Development
MUS 101: Freshman Seminar: Practical Foundations for Success in Music
MUS 496: Your Music Business
PKG 485: Packaging Development
REL 185: Introduction to Religion and Nonprofits
REL 285: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Religion
THR 208: Innovation through Improvisation
WRA 401: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Innovation or Writing and Leadership in the Professions
ESHP 202: Entrepreneurship Abroad
ESHP 490: Independent Study