Entrepreneurship-Related Courses

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
• ESHP 190: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

• AAAS 405: Black Entrepreneurship and Hustle
• 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: iOS Design Lab I 
• ESHP 425: 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
• HRT 404: Horticulture Management (W)
• ME 497: Biomechanical Design in Product Development
• 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