Entrepreneurship and Innovation Certificate
The certificate program is comprised of three university-wide core courses followed by two courses within a student's disciplinary college and one final entrepreneurship elective. Individual colleges will be encouraged to offer a capstone course as part of the program. Beyond topics related specifically to entrepreneurial business practices, courses include such topics as social entrepreneurship, arts entrepreneurship, idea generation and storytelling as additional perspectives for the student entrepreneur.
Students completing the certificate in entrepreneurship and innovation have their achievements recognized on their transcripts. Career services markets the certificate to potential employers, highlighting the innovative skills that students with this designation can offer.
Completed applications should be submitted through Advising SOS.
Total: 18 credit hours
Required Core (9 credit hours):
- ENT 305 Principles of Entrepreneurship (3)
- ENT 340 Creativity & Innovation (3) or TEM 230 Creativity & Business Innovation (3)
- ENT 360 Entrepreneurship & Value Creation (3) or TEM 400 Technology Entrepreneurship (3)
Approved Concentrations (6 credit hours) – select two courses below within the same concentration.
Approved Elective (3 credit hours) – select one course from any of the disciplines below:
Business
- AGB 456 – Food Product Innovation and Development
- ENT 440 – Entrepreneurship
- ENT 445 – Business Plan Development
- ENT 446 – Venture Capital Experience
- ENT 447 – Semester to Launch
- MKT 435 – Entrepreneurial Marketing
- MKT 442 – Services Marketing Strategy
- FIN 494 – Entrepreneurial Finance
- BUA 441 – Entrepreneurship and Feasibility
Anticipating Futures
- FIS 305 – Ways of Knowing
- FIS 307 – Navigating Futures
- FIS 308 – Politics, Markets and Innovation
Bio Med Engineering
- BME 494 – Biomedical device design
- BME 494 – Approaches to Innovative Healthcare Tech
- BME 494 – Senior Capstone Project (additional entrepreneurial element required)
College of Liberal Arts — Science
- BIO 312/394 or PHI 320 – Bioethics
- MBB 490 – Issues in Biotechnology (2 credits)
- NTR 460 – Nutrition Entrepreneurship
Design and Arts
- HDA 252 – Foundations of Arts Entrepreneurship
- DSC 394 – Design Entrepreneurship & Society
- THP 450 – Theatre Organization and Management
- THP 452 - Arts Entrepreneurship Seminar
Fulton — Alternative Energy Entrepreneurship
- ALT 360 – Renewable Energy Technologies
- ALT 410 – Solar Cells and Module
- ALT 420 – Electrochemical Energy Technologies
- ALT 435 – Applied Photovoltaics
- ALT 445 - Energy Conversion: Fuel Cells
- CEE 498 – Clean Technology Entrepreneurship
- MET 435 - Alternative Energy Systems
Fulton — Process Innovation
- TMC 331 - Quality Assurance
- TMC 430 – Enterprise Strategy and Innovation
- TEM 494 - Lean Process Design
Fulton — New Product Development
- CSE 494 – Mobile Application Development
- TEM 330 – Systems Innovation
- TEM 400 – Technology Entrepreneurship
Fulton — Social Entrepreneurship
- HON/EGR/IND/SOS/TEM 494 – Design for the Developing World
- TEM 455/494 – Global Impact Entrepreneurship
- TEM 482 – Start up Workshop
- TEM 494 – Sustainable Community Appraisal (Includes Travel to the Developing World)
- TEM 494 – Social Entrepreneurship Projects
Aviation Management
Choose AMT 491 and one other
- AMT 491 – Air Transportation Management Capstone
- AMT 308 – Air Transportation
- AMT 489 – Airline Administration
Herberger, Fulton, WPC – Innovation Space
(New product development, enroll by major):
- GRA 464, 465 (by application only, see website)
- IND 464, 465 (by application only, see website)
- ENT 464, 465 (by application only, see website)
Public Programs
- CPP 498 – Smart City and Tech Innovation Challenge
- NLM 410 – Social Entrepreneurship
- NLM 430 – Managing Nonprofit Organizations
- NLM 435 – Service Learning for Community Development
- PRM 402 – Assessment/Evaluation of Community Services
- PRM 427 – Revenue Generation
- PRM 475 – Entrepreneurial Rec & Tourism
Digital Media Entrepreneurship: Web
- AME 494 – Mobile Development
- GIT 402 – New Media Internet Technology
- GIT 414 – Website Design/Internet/Web
- GIT 417 – Adv Web Markup and Scripting
- GIT 435 – Website and E-Commerce Strategy
- GIT 480 – Senior Project
Walter Cronkite — Journalism & Mass Communication
- JMC 455/494 – Digital Media Entrepreneurship
- JMC 477/494 – New Media Innovation Lab
- JMC 473 – The Business and Future of Journalism
- JMC 494 – Graphic Design for Mobile
- MCO 425 – Digital Media Literacy
- MCO 435 – Social Media
American Indian Studies
- AIS 394 — Entrepreneurship/Innovation for American Indian
Sustainability
- AIS 394 — Reservation Economic Development
Senior Capstone Programs
Many colleges offer a senior capstone that involves the creation and development of something new which would be allowed for a capstone credit pending review and inclusion of entrepreneurial element.
Questions, please contact:
David Calabrese
W. P. Carey School of Business, BA 160
[email protected]