Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor - INEN

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor has a mission of creating ceaselessly resourceful students who can visualize opportunities on how to create a better product or process that can effectively solve problems and challenges for this world. As such, students who complete this program should be able to use business skills and knowledge to:

Recognize opportunities for change and improvement in the world
Develop strategies on how to raise the resources necessary to facilitate change and improvement
Build an organization with the process capability to effect the necessary change and improvement

Students who complete the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor are expected to transform our society through experiences such as the creating artistic endeavors that speak to people, developing products and services that improve the lives of people in our world, effecting change with policy leaders to improve society, or as founders and builders of business that improve the lives of people through employment.

Core Courses (16 credits)

BUS 101 - Introduction to Business 4 Hour(s)
BUS 204 - Start-ups and New Venture Planning 4 Hour(s)
BUS 340 - Entrepreneurial Finance 4 Hour(s)
BUS 475 - Managing Growth in Entrepreneurial Companies: Venture Development 4 Hour(s)

Elective Courses (4 credits)

Choose 4 credits from the following:

AIN 210 - Human-AI Interaction 4 Hour(s)
AVS 103 - Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems 4 Hour(s)
BUS 400 - Digital and Social Media Marketing 4 Hour(s)
COM 125 - Introduction to Social Media 2 Hour(s)
COM 203 - Advertising 4 Hour(s)
COM 225 - Advanced Social Media 2 Hour(s)
CSC 353 - Mobile Application Development 4 Hour(s)
ENG 120 - Introduction to Professional Writing 4 Hour(s)
ENG 230 - Grant Writing 4 Hour(s)
LEA 190 - Leadership and Personal Effectiveness 4 Hour(s)
GRD 150 - Digital Toolbox - Photoshop/ Illustrator 1 4 Hour(s)