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    Entrepreneurship Minor

    You can launch your career in either a startup or corporation with a minor in entrepreneurship from the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia (UNG). The minor in entrepreneurship is available to all majors including UNG students who are already majoring in a business-related field.

    Campus Availability

    • Dahlonega Campus
    • Catalog Listing

    Number of Credit Hours

    15 Credit Hours

    Around 5 Courses

    Courses You Could Take

    • ENTR 3010 - Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Mindset

      This course develops the entrepreneurial mindset of students to enable them to add value in various contexts through critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and innovation while encouraging initiative, adaptability and self-direction. The course employs an active classroom approach to help students cultivate and grow their creative and entrepreneurial capacities, understand how to apply these skills to various problems, and ultimately develop a solution. The course focuses on creativity and innovation within corporate, social and entrepreneurial contexts. Students learn creative tools and applications to assist in opportunity development, recognition and evaluation process by examining how people, industry, and social environments interact to identify, and shape creative and innovative alternatives and opportunities.

      Prerequisite/Corequisite:
      Prerequisite: Minimum of 60 earned credit hours

      Hours:
      3



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    • ENTR 3020 - Entrepreneurial Startup & Process

      This course is an introduction to entrepreneurship and new venture startup exploration that leads to new ventures. An emphasis is placed on entrepreneurship as a process that can be managed and applied in any organizational setting or context. The Lean Startup and Customer Development methodologies are employed to develop an idea into a proof of concept. The Business Model Canvas is integrated into the course as a part of the idea to proof of concept process. The course culminates in a fast pitch challenge presentation.

      Prerequisite/Corequisite:
      Prerequisite: Minimum of 60 earned credit hours

      Hours:
      3



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    • ENTR 3030 - Launching a New Venture

      In this course students develop a viable business plan to launch a new business. The course is a critical component for students who desire to start their own businesses and culminates with student teams pitching their business plan before a panel of judges selected from financial professionals, successful entrepreneurs and other business professionals. The class is very hands-on, providing the opportunity to apply learned topics. This course is exempt from the MCCB Admission to Upper Division restriction.

      Prerequisite/Corequisite:
      Prerequisite: ENTR 3020 with a grade of C or higher

      Hours:
      3



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    • What can you do with a minor in entrepreneurship?

      Interested in starting your own business?

      A minor in entrepreneurship will help you both develop an entrepreneurial mindset and  understand the startup process. In addition, critical startup topics such as funding, marketing, legal structuring, and business model development will be taught. Based on demand, special topic courses in technology, healthcare, arts and other specialty areas will be developed.

      Not interested in owning a business?

      Corporate organizations are actively recruiting potential employees who think entrepreneurially resulting in innovation and growth. A minor in entrepreneurship will help you accelerate your ability to get a job by teaching you to think entrepreneurially and better understand risk and reward.

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