This interdisciplinary minor guides students through the startup process. The Minor in Entrepreneurial Startups is designed to prepare students from any background or area of study to conceptualize, launch, manage, and grow a new business. Students have an opportunity to learn to shape entrepreneurial opportunities; assess feasibility; and develop other skills needed to conceptualize, launch, manage, and grow a new business venture. Students are exposed to innovation, marketing, and business modeling as they work in interdisciplinary teams to develop business plans. Courses from the College of Arts, Media and Design; College of Engineering; and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences have been carefully selected to allow students to apply the same course to both their own college degree and the entrepreneurial startups minor.
This minor is available to non-business majors only. If you're a business major and are interested, you should check out the Undergraduate Concentration in Entrepreneurial Startups.
Entrepreneurial Startups Minor Curriculum
Below you will find a sample curriculum for the Undergraduate Minor in Entrepreneurial Startups. You can find the full set of Entrepreneurial Startups Minor requirements in Northeastern's Course Catalog. Please consult the Course Catalog appropriate to your class year and your academic advisor to ensure your coursework is on track.
Requirements
ENTR 2301. Innovation!. 4 Hours.
Designed for students across the entire University who wish to learn about innovation—the creative process, the different types of innovation, how innovations are created, and how innovations can be transformed into commercial reality either as new products or new services and either in startups, existing corporations, and nonprofit entities. Offers students an opportunity to obtain the fundamental insight needed to understand the innovation process and to become a player in it.
Electives
Complete three courses, one of which may be chosen from the additional electives list:
ENTR 2303 | Marketing Strategies for Startups (if not chosen above) |
ENTR 3305 | Business Model Innovation for Entrepreneurs |
ENTR 3330 | Lean Design and Rapid Prototyping |
ENTR 4501 | Advanced Studies in Entrepreneurial Startups |
Additional Electives
ARTG 1250 | Design Process Context and Systems |
ARTG 3462 | Experience Design 1 |
CS 4500 | Software Development |
CS 4520 | Mobile Application Development |
CS 4550 | Web Development |
ENTR 1201 | The Entrepreneurial Universe |
GAME 2010 | The Business of Games |
GE 1110 | Engineering Design |
GE 5100 | Product Development for Engineers |
Interested? Next Steps
To declare a minor in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, students should complete the online minor registration form:
Students will be required to log in using their MyNortheastern credentials. Once the form has been submitted, the student will receive a confirmation email to their Northeastern email account and the student record will be updated within 10-14 business days.
To declare a minor, students must have a 2.0 GPA and be a full-time undergraduate student at Northeastern. To graduate with the minor, students must attain a 2.0 GPA in the courses taken for the minor. No classes for the minor may be taken for a pass/fail grade. The minor is posted on the official transcript within one month of graduation.
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