Business Entrepreneurship (Minor)
The purpose of the minor in Entrepreneurship is to engage students in the process of identifying, evaluating, and implementing business opportunities that focus on value creation. This process includes the creation of new ventures, as well as adding value within existing companies through innovation applications. The Minor focuses on embedding students in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Raleigh and beyond.
As a result, students who fulfill the requirements for the undergraduate minor in Entrepreneurship will develop an entrepreneurial mindset through experiential learning and through their embeddedness in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The minor in Entrepreneurship requires 18 hours of coursework with a 2.0 GPA in minor coursework.
Contact
Poole College of Management
Undergraduate Programs Office
Box 8614
2150 Nelson Hall
919.515.5565
poole_minors@ncsu.edu
Plan Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Requirements | |||
| Required courses (6 credit hours) 1 | 6 | ||
| Survey of Entrepreneurship | |||
| Entrepreneurship Skills for Non-Majors | |||
| Select one approved elective (3 credit hours) 1 | 3 | ||
| Exploring Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Thinking | |||
| Foundations in Arts Entrepreneurship | |||
| Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs | |||
| New Venture Planning | |||
| The Legal Dynamics of Entrepreneurship | |||
| Select an approved practicum sequence (6 credit hours) 1 | 6 | ||
| Option 1: MIE 410 and MIE 418 or MIE 419 | |||
| MIE 410 | Business Opportunity Analysis 2 | 3 | |
| MIE 418 | Social Entrepreneurship Practicum | 3 | |
| or MIE 419 | Entrepreneurship Practicum | ||
| Option 2: ECE 482 and ECE 483 (MAE 482 and MAE 483 for Mech. Engr. students) | |||
| ECE 482 | Engineering Entrepreneurship and New Product Development I | 3 | |
| ECE 483 | Engineering Entrepreneurship and New Product Development II | 3 | |
| Option 3: MAE 482 and MAE 483 (only available for Mech. Engr. students) | |||
| MAE 482 | Engineering Entrepreneurship and New Product Development I | 3 | |
| MAE 483 | Engineering Entrepreneurship and New Product Development II | 3 | |
- 1
C- or better
- 2
MIE 410 may be taken as an elective course if it is not taken as part of a practicum sequence