Entrepreneurship and Innovation BA

Degree Requirements

Required Courses:

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: This is a suite of courses that addresses individual entrepreneurial skills such as resiliency, initiative, innovative thinking, and communication. These courses develop personal and interpersonal skills needed to be a successful “entrepreneur” in several contexts.
   
• The Process of Entrepreneurship: This set of required courses covers a broad range of topics that immerse students in the practice of entrepreneurship.
   
• A choice of four concentration areas: Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, and Technology Entrepreneurship.

• Electives: Constitutes a group of courses from the Close School and across the University that reflect the themes of innovation and entrepreneurship.
   
• Minors: All entrepreneurship majors are required to select an academic minor, which will provide domain expertise in their area of interest. Students may select from over 150 minors offered by the University.

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Students not participating in co-op will take one additional credit of Free Elective instead of COOP 101.

Co-op cycles may vary. Students are assigned a co-op cycle (fall/winter, spring/summer, summer-only) based on their co-op program (4-year, 5-year) and major.

COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eligible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101.

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A computer science course cannot satisfy both a science or technology requirement and a computer language requirement.

Writing-Intensive Course Requirements

In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.

A "WI" next to a course in this catalog may indicate that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. For the most up-to-date list of writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Writing Intensive Course List at the University Writing Program. Students scheduling their courses can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.

Sample Plan of Study

5-Year Coop Spring/Summer Cycle

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COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eligible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101.

4-Year Coop Spring/Summer Cycle

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COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eligible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101.

 4-Year No Coop Plan of Study

Program Level Outcomes

• Appreciate and understand audience, purpose, and context to be able to communicate effectively and dynamically in a range of situations directly associated with the process of entrepreneurship (effective communication).
• Understand the creative process of ideation and apply different methodologies to identifying a viable idea in a new or existing market (opportunity recognition).
• Understand their personal strengths and challenges that equate with responding to failure inherent to the process of entrepreneurship (resilience).
• Understand the importance of self-directed actions and behaviors that enable financial, operational, and managerial independence in a new or existing market (self-sufficiency).

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty