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.
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Declaring the Entrepreneurship Minor
If you’re ready to declare the Entrepreneurship Minor, complete and submit the Declaration of Major form on the Registrar’s website. This form is used for both changing majors and minors.
Minor Content
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. Course also counts as a Social Science GEP course.
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 (More to be added as approved):
The remaining elective courses (12 credits) may be selected from below:
- AFST 385/POLI 340, 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 304, Plant Biology
- BIOL 412 , Microbial Systems and Synthetic Biology – Advanced Topics in Cell Biology
- BIOL 414, Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics
- BIOL 415, Systems Biology
- 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 *Social Science GEP
- ECON 121, Principles of Accounting I
- ECON 122, Principles of Accounting II – Managerial Accounting
- ECON 374, Financial Management
- ECON 408, Managerial Economics
- ECON 418, The Economics of Innovation and Technology *Writing Intensive GEP
- 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 (Spring course)
- ENTR 330, Entrepreneurial Financing (Fall course)
- ENTR 340, Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving and the Socialpreneur (Spring course)
- ENTR 450, Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
- FINC 150, Financial Literacy *Social Science GEP
- FYS 102, Creativity, Innovation and Invention
- GLBL 210, Business in the Global Realm
- GWST 200. Studies in Feminist Activism
- HIST 206. Themes in World History: Entrepreneurship in the Early Modern World *Culture GEP, Social Science GEP (formerly HIST 200)
- HIST 311, American Entrepreneurs from Columbus to Jobs *Social Science GEP
- HIST 411, Service Learning in Public History
- INDS 430, Kinetic Sculpture Project
- IS 320, Advanced Business Applications
- IS 403, User Interface Design
- IS 420, Database Application Development
- IS 428, Data Mining Techniques & Application
- IS 448, Markup and Scripting Languages
- IS 474, Technology Law
- IS 480, Information Visualization
- MATH 441, Introduction to Numerical Analysis
- MATH 447, Introduction to Parallel Computing
- 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
- MUSC 323, Career Development for Musicians
- PBHL/SOCY354, Social Bases of Public and Community Health
- PHIL 253, Business Ethics *Arts and Humanities GEP
- 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
For more information about the minor, contact George Karabatis at georgek@umbc.edu or Vivian Armor at armor@umbc.edu