This minor creates an opportunity for undergraduate students to develop essential skills in entrepreneurial thinking and new venture creation. This minor is not available to Management majors.
Refer to the School of Business section of this catalog for restrictions on Business minors and limits on the number of Business courses available to non-Business students. Access to courses for this minor is on a space available basis, and the School of Business cannot guarantee completion of this minor.
The minor is offered by the School of Business. For more information, contact the Management Department, School of Business, phone 860-486-3638. Class permission requests for these courses can be found at: https://undergrad.business.uconn.edu/forms.
Requirements
To receive this minor, a student must complete four (4) three credit, 2000-level or above courses with entrepreneurship content. As part of the four courses required for the Entrepreneurship minor, at least two must be from the following list of MENT or BADM core entrepreneurship courses offered by the Management Department:
Additional Entrepreneurship Course List
The remaining two courses can be any of the core courses listed above, if not already counted towards a core requirement, or from the additional entrepreneurship course list.
Course List
| Course |
Title |
Credits |
| Content Entrepreneurship | |
| Mastering Creativity and Innovation | |
| Managerial Negotiations | |
| The Business of Institutional Asset Management | |
| Hillside Private Capital | |
| Professional Practice in Management or Entrepreneurial Consulting | |
| Professional Practice in Entrepreneurial Business Development | |
| Special Topics (Advanced ECommerce Entrepreneurship) | |
| Special Topics (UConn Brewing Innovation) | |
| Special Topics (Early-Stage Investing) | |
| Venture Planning, Management, and Growth | |
| Special Topics (BUILD Hartford program) | |
| Entrepreneurial Finance | |
| Innovation Accelerator I: Evaluation of New Ventures - Business Process | |
| Innovation Accelerator II: New Venture Analytics | |
| Special Topics (InsurTech Venturing) | |
| Special Topics (InsurTech Experiential Learning) | |
| Special Topics (BioMedical Entrepreneurship) | |
| Design Thinking | |
| Digital Media Analytics | |
| Clinic: Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship, Advanced Fieldwork | |
| Clinic: Intellectual Property | |
| Healthcare Innovation Theory and Application | |
For more information, contact the Undergraduate Programs Office, School of Business, Room 248, undergrad.business@uconn.edu, phone (860) 486-2315, or the Boucher Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, room 336, MENT@uconn.edu, phone (860) 486-3638.
Courses towards the minor may not be simultaneously used towards another minor, and only one class used to satisfy this minor may be simultaneously used towards the student’s major requirements.
Credits from department approved internships focused on entrepreneurship may be used as a three-credit 3000/4000 level course to satisfy one of the two additional three-credit courses for the minor.
Refer to the School of Business section of this catalog for restrictions on Business minors and limits on the number of Business courses available to non-Business students. Access to courses for this minor is on a space available basis, and the School of Business cannot guarantee completion of this minor.
• Check the University Catalog for course pre-requisites.
• Students may use the online class permission request form when unable to self-enroll in an undergraduate business course used for the minor, noting all pre-requisites must be met to be granted permission to take a course.
