Entrepreneurship Minor

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The entrepreneurship minor equips students pursing different degrees or areas of study with the skills they need to accelerate a career in their chosen field or to establish their own business. The focus of this program is startup entrepreneurship. Coursework addresses opportunity discovery, business model design, product and service design, scaling a new venture, business and technology law, among other things.

Program Requirements

Forty Five (45) credit hours, good academic standing with a minimum GSU GPA of a 2.0 and permission of an authorized advisor for this minor are required to declare a Minor in Entrepreneurship. Pre-requisites for specific courses within the minor are required unless consent of the instructor is given. Courses that count toward a student’s major cannot also count toward this minor.

Satisfactory completion of the following courses is suggested prior to declaring this minor

Minor Requirements

ACCT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I 3 Credit Hours
BUSA 2106 - Legal Environment of Business
ECON 2100 - Global Economics 3 Credit Hours
ECON 2105 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 Credit Hours
or
ECON 2106 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours
ENGL 2102 - English Composition
MATH 1070 - Elementary Statistics 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 1160 - Introduction to Social Problems 3 Credit Hours

Required Courses for the Minor in Entrepreneurship (15 hours)

Students pursuing the Minor in Entrepreneurship must take five (5) courses in one of the two sequences below;

Students graduating with a degree not offered by the Robinson College of Business; for example the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degrees:

BUSA 3090 - Survey of Business Principles for Non-Business Students 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3101 - Entrepreneurial Thinking 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3102 - Product-Service Design for New Ventures 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3103 - Business Model Validation 3 Credit Hours
and one course from the list of Minor in Entrepreneurship Electives below.

Graduatinng with degree offered by the Robinson College of Business

Students graduating with a degree offered by the Robinson College of Business, including dual degree students where one degree is from the Robinson College of Business:

ENI 3101 - Entrepreneurial Thinking 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3102 - Product-Service Design for New Ventures 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3103 - Business Model Validation 3 Credit Hours
and two courses from the list of Minor in Entrepreneurship Electives below.

Entrepreneurship Electives

Note that these courses may have prerequisites that must be satisfied separately unless consent of the instructor is given.

Other courses can be substituted by permission of the program advisor.

ENI 3100 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Innovation 3 Credit Hours
ENI 3400 - WomenLead in Entrepreneurship and Innovation 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4000 - Corporate Entrepreneurship 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4020 - Business Law for Entrepreneurs 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4060 - Technology Law for Entrepreneurs 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4100 - From Startup to Growth Company 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4350 - Technology for Entrepreneurs 3 Credit Hours
ENI 4389 - Directed Readings in Entrepreneurship and Innovation 1 Credit Hours
ENI 4900 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation Internship 1 Credit Hours
MGT 4430 - Negotiation 3 Credit Hours
MGS 4590 - Entrepreneurship Field Study
MK 3010 - Marketing Management 3 Credit Hours
MK 4305 - Social Media Marketing 3 Credit Hours
MK 4330 - Principles of Professional Sales 3 Credit Hours
MK 4850 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs 3 Credit Hours

Process of Admission

Students wishing to declare a Minor in Entrepreneurship must file the proper paperwork with the Undergraduate Student Advisement Center or their College’s Office of Academic Assistance. The student’s advisor will determine the student’s eligibility and process the paperwork accordingly.