University of Portland Bulletin 2014-2015

Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Minor Requirements

This program provides students with an understanding of the entrepreneurial process and the tools necessary to develop and present a plan for a new business. The minor in entrepreneurship and innovation management is open to students of all majors except those majoring in entrepreneurship and innovation management. Those students in the Entrepreneur Scholars program have a modified course of study as shown below.  Only one upper-division elective can be cross-counted in both the minor and another major.

Minor Requirements

Non-Entrepreneur Scholar Minor Required Courses

Prerequisite — 3 hours

BUS 200Principles of Marketing

3

Required Courses — 15 hours

 

BUS 364Innovation

3

BUS 385Opportunity Assessment

3

BUS 486Venture Launch

3

To stay on track for the entrepreneurship and innovation management minor, students must take BUS 364 in the spring semester of their sophomore year or the fall semester of their junior year.  BUS 385 must be taken in the spring semester of the junior year and BUS 486 must be taken in the spring semester of the senior year. 

Choose two elective courses from the following:

BUS 370Marketing Research

3

Or

BUS 472Personal Selling

3

BUS 452Project Management

3

BUS 483Strategic Controls for New Venture Operations

3

BUS 484New Venture Finance and Accounting

3

BUS 487Social Entrepreneurship

3

CST 333Applied Organizational Communication Skills

3

ENV 400Integrating Seminar in Environmental Studies

3

EGR 430Global Engineering

4

CS 484Computer Science Capstone Project II

3

EE 484Electrical Engineering Capstone Project II

3

ME 484Mechanical Engineering Capstone Project II

3

CE 484Civil Engineering Capstone Project II

3

EGR 484Multi-disciplinary Capstone Project II

3

Entrepreneur Scholar Minor Required Courses — 15 hours

BUS 364Innovation

3

ENT 480Creating a World-Class Venture

3

ENT 481Entrepreneur Apprenticeship

3

ENT 482Global Entrepreneurship

3

Choose one elective course from the following:

BUS 483Strategic Controls for New Venture Operations

3

BUS 484New Venture Finance and Accounting

3

BUS 487Social Entrepreneurship

3