James S. Valone, Associate Dean, Director.
Traditional business programs rarely address the range of problems associated with starting a new business or running a small-growth company. This Entrepreneurship major offers an integrated curriculum to fill this need.
The Entrepreneurship major is designed to be career oriented, consisting of courses built upon the business core, but reflecting the goal of providing a course of study tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs.
Many students who wish to become entrepreneurs find that spending a few years working with a company is good preparation and experience for their own ventures to come. We strongly recommend that students interested in the Entrepreneurship major combine it with another major within the college. Dual majors with either management or marketing are the most common, but majors or minors in the sciences or technology fields can be very promising.
Entrepreneurship Curriculum:
ENG 101, ENG 102, PHI 101, RST 101 (4 courses)
(12)
Area Studies: Two courses from each of these areas:
I, III, IV, V, VI, VIII2 (12 courses)
(36)
Major course requirements: (23 or 22 courses)
a. Common body of business knowledge:
QNT 101 Quantitative Methods for Business
(3)
AND
MAT 106 Calculus for the Non-Sciences
(3)
OR
(6 or 4)
MAT 111 Calculus I
(4)
OR
MAT 1152 Calculus for Business I
(4)
and free elective
ACC 201 Financial Accounting
(3)
ACC 202 Managerial Accounting
(3)
ECO 1013 Principles of Macroeconomics
(3)
ECO 1023 Principles of Microeconomics
(3)
ECO 255 Business Statistics I
(3)
ECO 256 Business Statistics II
(3)
ISB 101 Management Technology
(3)
FIN 201 Introduction to Finance
(3)
MGT 101 Introduction to Management
(3)
MGT 325 Operations Analysis for Business
(3)
MGT 370 Introduction to Management
(3)
MKT 201 Principles of Marketing
(3)
b. Entrepreneurship major:
MGT 360 Organizational Behavior
(3)
MGT 364 Human Resources
(3)
MKT 320 Consumer Behavior
(3)
MKT 331 Market Research
(3)
MKT 400 Cases in Marketing
(3)
ENT 400 Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ventures
(3)
ENT 410 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning
(3)
Entrepreneurship electives (2 courses)
(12)
Electives (1 or 2 courses)
(9 or 12)
TOTAL (40 courses)
(120-121)
Recommended Schedule:
| Fall | Spring | |||
| Freshman Year | ||||
| ENG 101 | 3 | ENG 102 | 3 | |
| QNT 101 or MAT 111 or MAT 115 |
3 or 4 | MAT 106 or Elective | 3 | |
| ECO 101 Macro | 3 | ECO 102 | 3 | |
| ISB 101 | 3 | MGT 101 or ENT 101 | 3 | |
| AS VIII Language | 3 | AS VIII Language | 3 | |
| Total | 15 or 16 | Total | 15 | |
| Sophomore Year | ||||
| MKT 201 | 3 | ECO 256 | 3 | |
| ACC 201 | 3 | ACC 202 | 3 | |
| RST 101 | 3 | PHI 101 | 3 | |
| ECO 255 | 3 | FIN 201 | 3 | |
| AS IV History | 3 | AS IV History | 3 | |
| Total | 15 | Total | 15 | |
| Junior Year | ||||
| MGT 360 | 3 | MGT 364 | 3 | |
| AS I Science | 3 | MKT 320 | 3 | |
| MGT 325 | 3 | MGT 370 | 3 | |
| AS III Art & Lit | 3 | MKT 331 | 3 | |
| AS V Philosophy | 3 | AS VI Religion | 3 | |
| Total | 15 | Total | 15 | |
| Senior Year | ||||
| ENT 400 | 3 | ENT 410 | 3 | |
| ENT Elective | 3 | ENT Elective | 3 | |
| MKY 401 | 3 | AS III Art & Lit | 3 | |
| AS I Science | 3 | AS V Philosophy | 3 | |
| AS VI Religion | 3 | Free Elective | 3 | |
| Total | 15 | Total | 15 | |
| Total | 120 or 121 |
1. Area II is automatically fulfilled because this program is in the Social Sciences. Area VII is fulfilled by the Mathematics courses required in this program.