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The Social Entrepreneurship Minor equips students to design, launch, and lead social ventures that create positive social and environmental change alongside financial sustainability.  The minor develops ethical leaders who embrace creating community wealth as innovators ready to catalyze change in nonprofits, for-profits, and hybrid organizations across a rapidly evolving impact economy. The Social Entrepreneurship Minor is specially designed to be completed by students from any discipline.

Minor Requirements 

Course List
Code Title Credits
The following courses (12 credits) are required:12
ENTR 302
Foundations of Entrepreneurship
ENTR 366
Social Entrepreneurship
ENTR 376
How to Change the World
ENTR 426
Futurnomics
One additional course (3 credits) must be selected from the following:3
ENTR 351
Entrepreneurial Venture Design
ENTR 368
Family Business Venturing
ENTR 421
Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
ENTR 457
Practicum in Entrepreneurship
ENTR 491
Individual Study in Entrepreneurship
ENTR 499
Entrepreneurship Internship
MGMT/MKTG 356
International Entrepreneurship
MGMT/MKTG 428
Corporate Entrepreneurship: Running and Growing an Entrepreneurial Firm in a Global Economy
Total Credits15

Business Faculty

Filiz Tabak, Dean for Faculty
Mukesh Srivastava, Chair

Professors

Christopher J. Garcia
Lance C. Gentry
David L. Henderson, III
Kenneth D. Machande
Kashef A. Majid
John S. Marsh
Mukesh Srivastava
Xiaofeng Zhao

Associate Professors

Wei Chen
Kanchan Deosthali
Alexandra M. Dunn
Rachel L. Graefe-Anderson
Sayan Sarkar

Assistant Professors

Samira Fallah
Siang-Ru [Lulu] Huang
Durgesh Pattanayak
Tsung-Hsuan Yang

Senior Lecturers

Kimberley L. Kinsley
Smita Jain Oxford

Instructors

Christopher H. Willis

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