The entrepreneurship minor is for students who want to own a business, take ownership of projects within an organization, or be a self-employed free agent. As an entrepreneurship minor, students will learn to recognize opportunities, assess risk, and marshal resources. While practicing and mastering their craft in their major, students will experience and perform business ownership and operations in one of Millikin’s student-run ventures or their own business.
The minor in Entrepreneurship requires a minimum of 22 credits. The minor in Entrepreneurship is offered to provide the business or non-business student with the fundamental principles it takes to create, lead and own a business. The minor in Entrepreneurship is available to students majoring in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Professional Studies, the College of Fine Arts and the Tabor School of Business.
Performance Learning
Performance Learning initiatives for 3rd parties in the community includes creating and running a business and managing a student-run venture.
Learning Goals for the Entrepreneurship Minor
- Utilize frameworks of innovation to identify and capitalize on the needs, problems, and demands of a market..
- Analyze environmental, political, economic, legal, and ethical risks and rewards of ownership.
- Identify the financial, human, physical, and intellectual resources they need, where to obtain them, and how best to utilize them.
- Use the tools and skills of their discipline with a strong emphasis on practice.
Students in the Entrepreneurship Minor will be required to complete at least 22 semester hours of business and entrepreneurship courses: