Entrepreneurship Courses & Requirements

Degrees Offered:

  • Minor: Entrepreneurship

Course Listings

  • Click here to read complete descriptions of the Entrepreneurship courses offered at Wittenberg.

Degree Requirements:

Minor in Entrepreneurship (20 credits)

Required Courses

  • BUSN 200: Entrepreneurship or BUSN 206 Global Social Entrepreneurship
  • ECON 200: Principles of Economics
  • BUSN 220: New Ventures: Start-Up to Exit
  • BUSN 350: Entrepreneurship Across the Disciplines
  • 1 course chosen in consultation with the minor advisor that provides a disciplinary focus to a student’s potential entrepreneurial activity (4 cr). Students must write a description of the connection between the course and a potential new venture to be approved by their advisor that identifies interdisciplinary aspects of the study and practice of entrepreneurship. Students may identify connections in one of four tracks for the study and practice of entrepreneurship: the Arts, Science & Technology, Social Change, and Communication. Courses currently offered in the four tracks that may spark entrepreneurial interest include the following, although others will emerge as the curriculum changes. Close consultation with the advisor and instructor in the course chosen is encouraged.
Arts
  • ART 145 Intro to Computer Imaging
  • ART 242 Intro to Digital Photography
  • ART 271 Graphic Design
  • ENGL 240 Introduction to Creative Writing
  • MUSI 214 Electronic Music Production
  • THDN 240 Playwriting
  • THDN 230 Stagecraft
Communication
  • CMDM 101 Introduction to Communication
  • CMDM 120TD ST: Workplace Communication
  • CMDM 190 Public Speaking
  • ENGL 241 Beginning Journalism
  • ENGL 325 Writing Center Theory and Practice
  • ENGL 243 Business Writing
  • ENGL 300 Teaching Writing
  • 200-level Chinese, German, or Spanish
Science & Tech
  • COMP 150 Computer Programming I
  • DATA 229 Introduction to Data Science
  • DATA 327 Statistical Modeling
  • ENGL 335TF ST: Narrative Medicine
  • ESCI 101 Intro to Environmental Science
  • HSS 170 Intro to Exercise Science
  • PHYS 100 Concepts in Physics
  • PHYS 102 Physics Thru Experimentation
Social Change
  • CMDM 206 Reasoning and Communication
  • EDUC 103 Sociological Perspectives in Education
  • EDUC 104 Philosophical Perspectives in Education
  • ENGL 335TA ST: Writing for Social Change
  • ESCI 100 Global Climate Change
  • GEOL 160 Environmental Geology
  • POLI 202 Comparative Political Economy & Public Policy
  • POLI 101 Intro to American Politics
  • SOCI 290 Global Change
  • WMST 100 Women, Culture, Politics & Society
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