Entrepreneurship Courses
ENTR 390. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
(1-15 credits)
Special topics of interest selected by entrepreneurial faculty.
ENTR 407. Entrepreneurship Hour
(1 credit)
This weekly seminar series invites disruptive, influential and respected entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and business leaders to speak to students about their personal experiences founding, financing, and managing a startup venture. Following the lecture, students will be able to meet the guest speaker and network with members of the entrepreneurial community.
ENTR 408. Patent Law
(1 credit)
Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting inventions during product development, determining invention patentability, avoiding infringement, and leveraging a patent as a business asset. This course addresses these concerns through the application of case law and business cases to an invention of the student's choice.
ENTR 409. Venture Business Development
(1 credit)
This course prepares students to identify and evaluate commercial opportunities for emerging technologies. Emphasis is on design and evaluation of business models and methods necessary for rapid, rigorous analysis of these models. Students will develop preliminary business models and evaluate possible commercial opportunities.
ENTR 411. Entrepreneurship Practicum
Prerequisite: By application and permission of instructor (3 credits)
The Practicum immerses students in the entrepreneurial process in a supportive classroom environment. Students critically evaluate and then pursue the development of their own ideas for new ventures. Throughout the course, students work closely with entrepreneurship faculty and mentors.
ENTR 415. Entrepreneurial Ownership
Advised Prerequisite: Junior standing or above, or permission of instructor. (1.5 credits)
This course provides an analytical framework to improve understanding of individual and shared ownership models in entrepreneurial organizations, and the way alternative ownership decisions affect organizational dynamics. It also looks at the mechanisms that entrepreneurs can use to create specific ownership structures and organizational cultures.
ENTR 417. Entrepreneurship Hour Discussion Session
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ENTR 407 Entrepreneurship Hour. (1 credit)
In this faculty led discussion section for the Entrepreneurship Hour seminar series, students learn about, discuss and debate the key characteristics of entrepreneurship. Students also form small, multidisciplinary groups where they reflect on entrepreneurship and how it applies to their life goals.
ENTR 490. Special Topics in Entrepreneurship
(1-15 credits)
Special topics of interest selected by entrepreneurial faculty.
ENTR 599. Special Topics for Entrepreneurship
(1-4 credits)
Special topics of interest selected by entrepreneurship faculty.



