Innovation and Entrepreneurship (B.A., B.S.)
All Innovation and Entrepreneur students take five core courses, plus one of nine foundational electives.
From there, the options expand tremendously based on your chosen concentration area. Innovation and entrepreneurship concentration areas include:
- Business, marketing and sports
- Creative design and the arts
- Policy and justice
- Science and technology
- Sustainability and the environment
Coursework for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (B.A. or B.S., 34-36 hours)
| Core Requirements | 16 hours |
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INNOV 1000: Ideas to Innovation This foundational course introduces creative ideas, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a team approach to problem-solving. Throughout the semester, students will learn the technical, business, artistic, writing, and speaking skills necessary to promote innovation. Students will apply models of innovation to develop and pitch their own original ideas. AWC: Experiential-Exploratory |
3 hours |
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CMPSC 1100 Python Programming I OR DATA 1200 Excel and SQL Programming |
4 hours |
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INNOV 2000 Problem Solving This course offers an immersive experience in Design Thinking as a tool for innovative ideas and strategy development. Design Thinking draws on methods from engineering and design, and combines them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences, and insights from the business world. Students will learn to conduct research in peer reviewed sources and to assess sources for bias. Students will complete readings and independent activities that support collaborative group work. Student teams start in the field, where they discover the needs of the target audience with a real-world problem. Then iterate ideas to develop a range of promising possible solutions (product or service or system), create rough prototypes to take back out into the field and test with real people in the target audience. The course culminates with a public pitch contest. Typically this course is taken in the sophomore year. AWC: Experiential-Exploratory |
3 hours |
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INNOV 4970 Internship First-hand experience working in startups, businesses or nonprofits alongside innovators, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. The student will work with the director of the program to arrange the internship. Typically completed in the junior year. Prerequisite(s): INNOV 2000, junior standing, and permission of director of program. |
3 hours |
| Foundation Electives | 2-4 hours |
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| ART 1200 Introduction to Digital Media | 4 hours |
| BUSAD 2300 Business Communication | 3 hours |
| COMM 1510 Intercultural Communication | 4 hours |
| COMM 2400 Communication and Leadership | 4 hours |
| CMPSC 1100 Python Programming I | 4 hours |
| DATA 1200 Excel and SQL Programming | 4 hours |
| ENG 3150 Professional and Community Writing | 4 hours |
| PHIL 2020 Ethics | 4 hours |
| SOC 3290 Grant Writing and Evaluation | 2 hours |
| Capstone | |
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INNOV 4980 Final Project Students will develop a project that corresponds with their career goals. Examples could include innovating new processes and policies, reimagining existing structures and paradigms, and developing new businesses and startups. The course culminates with a public pitch or presentation. Students will process and reflect upon this experience with other students in the corequisite INNOV 4990 Capstone. Typically completed in the senior year. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of director of program. |
3 hours |
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INNOV 4990 Capstone This is a course taken as part of the signature work (INNOV 4980 Final Project) done by students at the end of their degree program. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge to establish a startup, business, or nonprofit including how to identify necessary financial, legal, and human resources. Students will connect their previous learning in the Archway Curriculum, both in their liberal arts and Innovation and Entrepreneurship major, with the Final Project. They will engage in discourse with other students about their work and prepare for the next stage of their career. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and permission of director of program |
1 hour |