Minor in Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management (Non-Teaching)
The Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management minor is open to all business and non-business students. This minor is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to pursue a successful entrepreneurial career or manage the basic functions of a small business.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Minor is embedded in the learning goals for all JJCBE programs: The learning goals for the JJCBE are listed below. These are also the learning goals used for AACSB accreditation.
Knowledge of Business: Students will have strong working knowledge of fundamental concepts in accounting, finance, management, marketing, information technology, strategy, and law. - Critical Thinking: Students will learn to effectively and persuasively assimilate and evaluate information to solve business problems.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students will be able to interpret, represent, and evaluate quantitative information and integrate such information into business decisions and recommendations.
- Effective Written Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, adopt an appropriate tone, employ correct grammar, sentence structure and mechanics, use appropriate vocabulary, and correctly cite sources for facts, quotations and ideas.
- Effective Oral Communication: Students will be able to develop and organize ideas, successfully employ technology in support of a message, speak extemporaneously with minimal hesitations and fillers, adopt an appropriate tone, use appropriate vocabulary, employ correct grammar and sentence structure, and manage presentation pacing and timing effectively.
- Ethical Decision Making and Social Responsibility: Students will recognize the ethical and societal implications of proposed actions, employ decision-making tools to evaluate the ethical and societal effects of a variety of options, and make sound decisions in accordance with the analysis and evaluation of options.
Students seeking the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management minor will take the following courses.
| BGEN 105IS | Introduction to Business * | 3 |
| or BGEN 204 | Business Fundamentals | |
| Take one of the following: | 3 | |
| Prof Business Communication | ||
| College Writing II | ||
| Intermediate Tech Writing | ||
| BMKT 325 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BGEN 361 | Principles of Business Law | 3 |
| Take one of the following: | 3 | |
| Management and Organization | ||
| Engineering Management & Ethics | ||
| Take one of the following: | 3 | |
| Accounting and Finance Basics | ||
| Business Finance | ||
| Engineering Economic Analysis | ||
| Agriculture Finance and Credit Analysis | ||
| Econ Org, Finance & Credit | ||
| Business Fundamentals for Technical Professionals | ||
| BMGT 448 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| BMGT 463 | Entrepreneurial Experience | 3 |
| Take two of the following electives: ** | 6 | |
| Financial Statement Analysis | ||
| Real Estate Investment Analysis | ||
| Entrepreneurial Finance | ||
| Human Resource Management | ||
| Sustainable Business Practices | ||
| Small Business Management | ||
| Community Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Management | ||
| International Practicum | ||
| Consumer Behavior | ||
| Marketing Research | ||
| Integrated Online Marketing | ||
| Sales and Sales Management | ||
| Marketing for Entrepreneurs | ||
| Technology Entrepreneurship | ||
| Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Food and Health | ||
| Total Credits | 30 | |
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Business majors take BGEN 204. Non-business majors take BGEN 105IS.
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Jabs Management option students must take at least one elective outside of BMGT and may not use BMGT 329.