Undergraduate Degree

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 must contact the MSU Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship in The Eli Broad College of Business or visit https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu.

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 Options (E&I Experiences Options). At least one of the E&I Experiences Options must be completed in a course that is not being counted toward the 15 credits required for the minor.

1.	Complete both of the following courses (6 credits):
	CAS	114	Creativity and Innovative Entrepreneurship						3
	ESHP	190	The Art of Starting						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 and Cultural Management						3
	AL	300	Starting Your Business in the Creative, Visual, and Theatre Arts						2
	CAS	214	Social Media and the Start-Up						3
	CSUS	200	Introduction to Sustainability						3
	CSUS	473	Social Entrepreneurship and Community Sustainability						3
	EAD	361	Educational Reform and Policy Analysis						3
	EGR	100	Introduction to Engineering Design						2
	EGR	440	Engineering Entrepreneurship						3
	ESHP	170	Business Model Development						3
	ESHP	230	The Entrepreneurial Mindset						3
	ESHP	231	Venture Launch						3
	ESHP	380	Entrepreneurship: Planning, Modeling and Adaptive Execution						3
	ESHP	480	Entrepreneurship Capstone Experience						3
	FI	444	Entrepreneurial Finance						3
	GBL	467	Emerging Enterprise Law						3
	HB	358	Hospitality Business Ownership						3
	HRT	404	Horticulture Management (W)						3
	HRT	407	Horticulture Marketing						3
	LB	268	The Business of Medicine						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	Entrepreneurship: Strategic Marketing Planning and Launch						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
	PLS	302	Urban Politics						3
	REL	185	Introduction to Religion and Nonprofits						3
	REL	285	Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Religion						3
	TE	201	Current Issues in Education						3
	THR	208	Innovation through Improvisation						2
	UP	201	Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning						4
	Students who are interested in packaging their elective courses in a focus area may consult the Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship for a list of courses that are approved. See https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/academics/courses. Several tracks are available. See https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/academics.
3.	Completion of two Entrepreneurship and Innovation Experiences Options
	Students may complete this requirement by choosing from the following options: 1) Participation in Startup Weekend; 2) Participation in the Burgess New Venture Challenge; 3) Start a Venture (Company/Organization); or 4) Participate in a highly experiential course.