Entrepreneurship Minor
Starting in Fall, 2015, we will be offering an entrepreneurship minor to Cal Lutheran undergraduates not enrolled in the School of Management. Students from across the campus will take courses together and work on inter-disciplinary teams to formulate and pursue start-up ideas. The minor is earned by taking three core courses and two electives.
Core Courses
- ENT101: Creativity and Innovation: The Art of Transforming Knowledge into Ideas That Can Change the World — This course is for students who want to realize their potential as creative thinkers and problem solvers and to tackle challenges that have a global impact. In this course, you will learn to see what others do not see, to challenge what exists, to imagine what could be, and develop the skill sets to make your vision a reality. This course is designed to inspire and prepare you with the skills to combine innovation, creative thinking, and sound entrepreneurship principles to turn ideas into business ventures, design innovative products and services in existing companies, or channel a passion for public service into practical solutions to the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental problems. By analyzing and understanding problems from a human perspective and applying the principles of entrepreneurship to bring them into existence, you will leave with a set of tools for developing truly innovative and disruptive ideas that can change the world. No Pre-req. Open to all students.
- ENT301: The Analytics of Value Creation — This course focuses on the transition from business concept to the evaluation of the technical and market “doability” of the project. Feasibility involves reevaluating core assumptions of the original business model through customer feedback and prototype development. The course explores ways that entrepreneurs reiterate their businesses, making adjustments as new information is generated thereby insuring product-market fit. The course also looks at the assembly of critical human, financial and social capital in the venture creation process. There is an experiential component that involves interviewing potential customers, business partners and other venture helpers. Pre-req: ENT101. Sophomore standing required.
- ENT430: Global Entrepreneurship — Today's economy is increasingly borderless. This course is an exploration of the intersection of business and culture for companies ranging from startups to large enterprises seeking to grow beyond their national boundaries to develop, translate, adapt, and promote products and services to international markets. Special attention will be given to the impact of cross-cultural differences (especially those in non-Western cultures) on issues and situations in the development and management of a diverse, multi-cultural workforce and globalization teams.
Electives
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BUS 376: Sales Management
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BUS 398: Raising Capital
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BUS 443: Event Planning and Management
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CSC 335: Software Engineering or CSC 331: Systems Analysis
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CRIM 370/SOC 370: Deviance in U.S. Society
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ENT 401: Launching a Startup
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ENT 423: Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
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ENT 482: Special Topics
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PHIL 205: Philosophy & Black Mirror
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SPMG 488:The Business of Sports