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Crookston Campus
Entrepreneurship B. S.Business
Academic Affairs
The Entrepreneurship major prepares students by developing skills and behaviors related to recognition of ideas and potential ventures, feasibility evaluation, assembling resources, and launching of new ventures. Students will learn a broad range of competencies, including opportunity recognition, applied creativity, small business finance, and business plan and strategy development. Students are exposed to a variety of real-world applications through course embedded projects and field study opportunities. An entrepreneurship major not only prepares students to launch and grow their own business, but equips them with highly transferable skills important to any organizational context, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Graduates of this program will demonstrate:
-Capability and initiative to identify entrepreneurial opportunity, assess and evaluate risk, and plan for small business ventures
-Leadership and entrepreneurial competencies required to conceptualize, plan, finance, resource, manage, and grow small businesses
-Skills of creativity in relation to organizational challenges and business opportunities
-Effective oral and written communication skills in various mediums and organizational contexts
-Effective evaluation skills in determining appropriate resources and necessary courses of action
-Ability to work effectively with people of different backgrounds and personal priorities toward the accomplishment of goals
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students are required to complete general University and college requirements. For more
information, see the graduation requirements.
Program Requirements
A minimum of 40 upper division credits are required to graduate.
Program Requirements
A maximum of two “D” grades are allowed for core courses required in the program and technology requirements. This includes grades earned at UMC or transferred in from another institution.
Program Requirements - 52 credits
ACCT 3220 - Accounting Systems
(3.0 cr)
COMM 3008 - Business Writing
(3.0 cr)
ENTR 2200 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Small Business
(3.0 cr)
ENTR 3150 - Entrepreneurial Marketing
(3.0 cr)
ENTR 3400 - Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance
(3.0 cr)
ENTR 4200 - Field Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business
(3.0 cr)
ENTR 4800 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Strategies
(3.0 cr)
GBUS 1005 - Orientation to Online Learning
(1.0 cr)
GBUS 3117 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
GBUS 3500 - Business Ethics
(3.0 cr)
ITM 3020 - Introduction to Management Information Systems
(3.0 cr)
MGMT 3200 - Principles of Management
(3.0 cr)
MGMT 3900 - Internship
(1.0-3.0 cr)
MKTG 3300 - Principles of Marketing
(3.0 cr)
ACCT 2102 - Principles of Accounting II
(3.0 cr)
or
ACCT 3010 - Managerial Accounting
(3.0 cr)
or
AGEC 2310 - Agribusiness Financial Records
(3.0 cr)
Liberal Education Requirements
A minimum of 40 liberal education credits are required. Students must complete the 10 goal areas of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum with the following specific liberal education courses required:
COMP 1011 - Composition I
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
COMP 1013 - Composition II
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 2101 - Microeconomics
[HI/BEH/SSC]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 2102 - Macroeconomics
[HI/BEH/SSC]
(3.0 cr)
MATH 1031 - College Algebra
[MATH THINK]
(3.0 cr)
MATH 1150 - Introduction to Statistics
[MATH THINK]
(3.0 cr)
PSY 1001 - General Psychology
[HI/BEH/SSC]
(3.0 cr)
COMM 1101 - Public Speaking
[COMMUNICAT]
(3.0 cr)
Technology Requirements
Technology Requirements - 3 credits
CA 1020 - Spreadsheet Applications
(3.0 cr)
Open Electives
Students must take enough open electives credits to meet the 120 credit graduation requirement. The number of credits needed depends on liberal education course selections.
Program Sub-plans
A sub-plan is not required for this program.
Online
The Entrepreneurship BS Online has the same curriculum as the on-campus Entrepreneurship BS program.
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