Entrepreneurship Minor

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Objectives

The minor in entrepreneurship is designed to allow students the opportunity to learn the foundations in creating and sustaining a business, including business plan development and innovation skills. The elective course is designed to allow students to learn about a functional area in entrepreneurship or to delve more deeply into one of the foundations.

Competencies, Knowledge, or Skills to be Achieved

By completing the minor, students will have developed a basic competency in entrepreneurship, innovation, and business by understanding how businesses are conceived. Through the elective choice, students will build additional knowledge or skills in a foundational or functional area such as: accounting, communications, computer applications, economics, finance, human resource management, international business, law, leadership, marketing, real estate, social service, or statistics.

This minor is not approved for students majoring in accounting, business administration, finance, management, marketing & business development, or supply chain management.

Structure of the Minor:

*Prerequisites must be met - see course descriptions for prerequisite requirements

Required Courses (9 Credit Hours):

ACCT 205 - Survey of Accounting Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 301 - Principled Entrepreneurship & the Free Enterprise System Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 401 - Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 3

Directed Elective Course (3 Credit Hours):

Choose one of the following (the course not chosen can be taken to fulfill the Elective Course requirement)

ENTR 411 - Technology & Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 421 - Applying Innovation Credit Hours: 3 *

Elective Course (3 Credit Hours):

**Other 3-credit hour courses must be approved by the ME Department Head

Choose one of the following

BLAW 301 - Legal & Ethical Environment of Business Credit Hours: 3
COMM 206 - Persuasive Speaking Credit Hours: 3 *
COMM 216 - Professional Communications Credit Hours: 3 *
CONE 302 - Engineering/Construction Law, Ethics, Safety, and Contracts Credit Hours: 4
CONE 311 - Resource Estimating Credit Hours: 3
CSCI 217 - Web Resources and Design Credit Hours: 3 *
CSCI 370 - Developing Mobile Applications Credit Hours: 3 *
ECON 201 - Principles of Microeconomics Credit Hours: 3
ECON 205 - Survey of Economics Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 470 - Special Topics in Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 480 - Undergraduate Research in Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 3
ENTR 490 - Independent Study in Entrepreneurship Credit Hours: 3
FINC 405 - Private Equity, Venture Capital, & Exits Credit Hours: 3 *
MGMT 303 - Management & Organizational Behavior Credit Hours: 3
MGMT 311 - Human Resource Management Credit Hours: 3
MGMT 315 - Management of Change Credit Hours: 3 *
MGMT 431 - International Business Credit Hours: 3
MKTG 302 - Personal Branding & Networking Credit Hours: 3
STAT 461 - Data Analysis Credit Hours: 3 *

Total Credit Hours Required:

15 (at least 9 of which must be completed at The Citadel)

Note: Please refer to Academic Minor policy within the Undergraduate Curriculum section of the College Catalog regarding the applicability of courses towards core major curriculum and minor curriculum requirements. For more information, please contact the ME Department Head.