Minor in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Minor
Management
Josh Aaron, Advisor
The Entrepreneurship minor requires 15 hours and focuses on special competencies needed for planning, organizing, and operating a new venture or small business. A 2.00 GPA is required. Nine (9) hours must be taken at MTSU, 3 of which must be upper-division.
Required Courses (12 hours)
ENTR 2900 - Entrepreneurship
3 credit hours
Theories and practices of starting and operating an entrepreneurial business. Topics include idea generation, opportunity recognition, feasibility analysis, business plan development, competitor analysis, new venture team building, start-up marketing, and growth strategies.
MKT 3200 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: ENTR 2900; admission into College of Business; junior standing. Applied study of marketing skills necessary to create a new business venture. Students will gain experience completing various marketing tasks that are important to new business startups.
ENTR 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management
3 credit hours
(Same as FIN 3040.) Prerequisites: ENTR 2900; admission to the College of Business; junior standing. Focuses on tools, processes, systems, and practices used by entrepreneurs to manage resources. Specific focus on cash budgeting, working capital management, sources of capital, and financial analysis/forecasting for the small business/startup.
FIN 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management
3 credit hours
(Same as ENTR 3040.) Prerequisites: ENTR 2900; junior standing; admission into the College of Business. Focuses on tools, processes, systems, and practices used by entrepreneurs to manage resources. Specific focus on cash budgeting, working capital management, sources of capital, and financial analysis/forecasting for the small business/startup
ENTR 4920 - Small Business Management
3 credit hours
(Same as MGMT 4920.) Prerequisites: MGMT 3610 or FIN 3040 or ENTR 3040 and admission to the College of Business. Analysis of problems and considerations involved in planning, organizing, and operating small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures. Emphasis on environmental issues, growth strategies, process management activities, and human resource management.
MGMT 4920 - Small Business Management
3 credit hours
(Same as ENTR 4920.) Prerequisites: MGMT 3610 or FIN 3040 or ENTR 3040 and admission to the College of Business. Analysis of problems and considerations involved in planning, organizing, and operating small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures. Emphasis on environmental issues, growth strategies, process management activities, and human resource management.
Elective (3 hours)
ENTR 4950 - Entrepreneurship Applied Experience
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship major or Entrepreneurship minor; senior standing; overall grade point average of at least 2.50; admission into the College of Business. Student affiliated with an organization on a part-time basis to develop knowledge and experience in the practical application of theory to actual business problems in a non-classroom situation. May be repeated once.
- Approved elective or an additional ENTR course 3 credit hours
