The Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation consists of 18 credits – 2 core courses ( 3 credits each) and 4 elective courses (3 credits each). Six credits must be at the 300 or 400 level.
Click here for the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Worksheet.
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For more information about enrolling in the ENTR Minor please click here to be directed to the Registrar’s website.
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*CORE COURSES [Required, 6 credits]*
*ENTR 200* Introduction to Entrepreneurship
This course will provide an overview of the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation focusing on the nature, environment, and risks of new venture formation. Topics include the entrepreneurial mindset, opportunity recognition, market assessment, social need, feasibility plan, and structure, costs, and sustainability.
*ENTR 201* The Entrepreneurial Mindset
An introductory course explaining entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. The course encourages the development of personal attributes that foster creative thinking among students from all majors. The course introduces students to the attributes of thinking like an innovative entrepreneur, and guides them, using real-life problems, to acquire personal attributes shared by successful social innovators and business entrepreneurs.
ELECTIVE COURSES TO DATE (More to be added as approved):
The remaining elective courses (12 credits)* may be selected from below:
Course Number Course Name
AFST 385 Problem Solving in the Urban Black Community
AGING 361/IS 361 Technology for Management Aging Services
AMST 422 Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore
ART 339 Design Thinking Methods
ART 341 Introduction to Animation
ART 427 Museum Practice
ART 485 Team Based Game Development
ART 489 Senior Projects
BIOL 412 Microbial Systems and Synthetic Biology – Advanced Topics in Cell Biology
BIOL 414 Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics
BIOL 421 Topics in Molecular Genetics
BIOL 422L/BIOL 622L+BIOL 499 Microscopy and Imaging Techniques + one credit Independent Study
BIO 444 Development and Cancer
BIOL 453 Physiological Bases of Behavior
BIOL 495 Bioinformatics Seminar
CHEM 311L Advanced Laboratory I
CHEM 405L Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
CMPE 349 Introduction to Professional Practice
CMPE 450 Capstone I
CMPE 451 Capstone II
CMSC 447 Software Engineering
CMSC 478 Intro to Machine Learning
CMSC 493 Capstone Games Group Project
DANC 475 Senior Projects in Dance
ECEP 405 Global Engineering
ECON 101 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 121 Principles of Accounting I
ECON 374 Financial Management
ECON 408 Managerial Economics
ECON 418 The Economics of Innovation and Technology
ECON 467 Health Economics
ECON 476 Portfolio Analysis & Mgmt
ECON 479 Venture Capital and Capital Market Imperfections
ECON 482 International Finance
ENCH 225L Chemical Engineering Problem Solving and Experimental Design Lab
ENCH 486 A Survey of Sensors & Instrumentation
ENME 204 Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design with CAD
ENME 444 Mechanical Engineering Systems Design Capstone
ENTR 300 Internship
ENTR 320 Entrepreneurial Marketing
ENTR 330 Entrepreneurial Financing
ENTR 340 Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving and the Socialpreneur
ENTR 450 Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
FINC 150 Financial Literacy
FYS 102 Creativity, Innovation and Invention
GWST 200 Studies in Feminist Activism
HIST 206 Themes in World History: Entrepreneurship in the Early Modern World
(formerly HIST 200)
HIST 311 American Entrepreneurs from Columbus to Jobs
HIST 411 Service Learning in Public History
INDS 430 Kinetic Sculpture Project
IS 320 Advanced Business Applications
IS 420 Database Application Development
IS 428 Data Mining Techniques & Application
IS 448 Markup and Scripting Languages
IS 474 Technology Law
MCS 355 Social Media: Networking and Mobility
MCS 377 Desktop Publishing and the Web
MGMT 210 The Practice of Management
MGMT 310 Human Resource Management
PBHL/SOCY354 Social Bases of Public and Community Health
PHIL 253 Business Ethics
THTR 345 Auditioning and the Business of Acting
THTR 460 Theatre Capstone
NOTE: The following courses have been approved as electives in the past but are currently not being offered. If they are offered in the future they will be relisted and counted toward the ENTR Minor.
- AMST/POLI/SOCI 205 – Civic Agency and Social Entrepreneurship
- ART 322 – Social Entrepreneurship in Place
- ART 339 – Design Thinking for the Social Entrepreneur
- ART 462 – Entrepreneurial Practices in Photography
- BIOL 306L – Projects in Synthetic Molecular Biology
- MUSC 323 – Career Development for Musicians
For more information, contact George Karabatis at georgek@umbc.edu or Vivian Armor at armor@umbc.edu