Undergraduate Minor

The Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is designed to provide students with the mindset and skills that will enable them to passionately pursue and engage in opportunities without regard to currently controlled resources.

The minor demonstrates entrepreneurship as an activity that involves the discovery, evaluation, and engagement of opportunities to either solve a problem, or bring about desired change. At its core, the minor prepares students to become change agents. It focuses on two aspects of the entrepreneurial experience: the entrepreneurial mindset and the venture creation process, as well as placing great emphasis on experiential learning. Students completing the minor will have an appreciation of innovation in all aspects of society and an awareness of entrepreneurship as a viable career option. Students will become capable of being effective innovators and change agents in an organization and will develop the execution capability to launch a venture of their own.

The Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is administered by the Department of Management and is available as an elective to students who are enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs at Michigan State University. Students who are interested in the minor can declare the minor by visiting https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/academics.

At least 6 credits counted towards the requirements for this minor must be unique. Unique credits must not be used to fulfill another university, college, or major requirement in the student’s program.

Requirements for the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Students must complete 15 credits in courses from the following list. A 2.0 grade-point average must be maintained in courses completed for the minor. Students must also complete two Entrepreneurship and Innovation Experiences.

1.	Complete both of the following courses (6 credits):
	CAS	114	Creativity and Innovative Entrepreneurship						3
	ESHP	190	Introduction to Entrepreneurship						3
2.	Complete 9 credits from the following courses (9 credits):
	ACC	230	Survey of Accounting Concepts						3
	ACM	271	Introduction to Arts and Cultural Management						3
	ACM	465	Leadership and Innovation for Arts, Cultural and Museum Management						3
	CAS	214	Social Media and the Start-Up						3
	CSUS	200	Introduction to Sustainability						3
	CSUS	473	Social Entrepreneurship and Community Sustainability						3
	EGR	100	Introduction to Engineering Design						2
	EGR	440	Engineering Entrepreneurship						3
	ESHP	170	Business Model Design and Prototyping						3
	ESHP	230	The Entrepreneurial Mindset						3
	ESHP	380	Entrepreneurship: Planning, Modeling and Adaptive Execution						3
	ESHP	480	Innovation in Action						3
	FI	444	Entrepreneurial Finance						3
	GBL	467	Emerging Enterprise Law						3
	HB	358	Hospitality Entrepreneurship						3
	HRT	404	Horticulture Management (W)						3
	MGT	325	Management Skills and Processes						3
	MGT	352	Entrepreneurship: New Venture Process						3
	MI	301	Bringing Media to Market						3
	MI	450	Creating Human-Centered Technology (W)						3
	MI	452	Media Entrepreneurship and Business Strategies						3
	MI	462	Social Media and Social Computing						3
	MI	472	Digital Business and Commerce						3
	MI	480	Information and Communication Technologies and Development						3
	MI	488	Information and Communication Technology Development Project (W)						3
	MKT	355	Entrepreneurial Marketing						3
	MKT	410	Product Innovation and Management						3
	MKT	420	New Product Design and Development						3
	MUS	101	Freshman Seminar: Practical Foundations for Success in Music						1
	MUS	496	Your Music Business						1 or 2
	PKG	485	Packaging Development						3
	REL	185	Introduction to Religion and Nonprofits						3
	REL	285	Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Religion						3
	THR	208	Innovation through Improvisation						2
	Additional approved Entrepreneurship and Innovation elective courses are available at: https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/courses.
3.	Completion of two Entrepreneurship and Innovation Experiences
	Students may complete this requirement by choosing from options offered on the Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Web site. See https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/academics/experiences.