Objectives
The minor in entrepreneurship is designed to provide 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 you 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, you will have developed a basic competency in entrepreneurship, innovation and business by understanding how businesses are conceived. Through the choice of your elective, you will build additional knowledge or skills in a foundational or functional areas such as: economics, statistics, accounting, communications, marketing, computer applications, law, international business, finance, real estate, leadership, human resource management or social science.
This minor is not approved for students majoring in business.
Required Courses (9 credit hours):
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ACCT 205 | Survey of Accounting |
| ENTR 301 | Principled Entrepreneurship and the Free Enterprise System |
| ENTR 401 | Small Business Management/Entrepreneurship |
Directed Course (3 credit hours). Choose one of the following, the course not chosen, can be taken as an elective:
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ENTR 411 | Technology and Entrepreneurship |
| ENTR 421 | Applying Innovation |
Electives (3 credit hours):
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| ECON 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics |
| BLAW 301 | Legal & Ethical Environment of Business |
| MGMT 303 | Management and Organizational Behavior |
| MGMT 431 | International Business |
| MGMT 305 | Leadership in Organizations |
| FINC 405 | Private Equity, Venture Capital & Exits |
| MGMT 311 | Human Resource Management |
| MGMT 315 | Management of Change |
| COMM 206 | Persuasive Speaking |
| COMM 216 | Communications in Business |
| CONE 302 | Engineering/Construction Law, Ethics, Safety, & Contracts |
| CONE 311 | Resource Estimating |
| CSCI 217 | Web Resources and Design |
| CSCI 370 | Developing Mobile Apps |
| STAT 461 | Data Analysis |
Total Credit Hours Required: 15, at least 9 of which must be completed at The Citadel.
Note: For cases in which the major discipline already requires any of the Minor in Entrepreneurship required courses (which cannot be used for a dual purpose and counted towards the Entrepreneurship minor), the student must contact the Baker School of Business to determine appropriate substitutions.
For further information, please contact Dr. Al Lovvorn, Department Head, in the Baker School of Business.