The Entrepreneurship Minor enables students in all RIT colleges to acquire necessary learning, experiences and skills to start and operate new ventures and organizations. Students gain unique insights into such necessary entrepreneurial aspects as identifying good business opportunities, developing effective business strategies, obtaining customer insights and interactions, developing financial and accounting competencies, advancing product & service development and realization, understanding intellectual property (for technology-related activities), etc.
The entrepreneurship minor is cross-disciplinary in its approach. It allows students to integrate both entrepreneurship-related business courses from the Saunders College of Business and innovation-related courses available throughout the university.
Refer to the General Policies and Requirements
Entrepreneurship and an approved applied entrepreneurial experience (generally the Field Experiences in Business Consulting course) are required for all students. The remaining 12 credit hours should be selected from a listing of approved elective courses. Students from outside the Saunders College of Business are recommended to select business courses as their primary electives (courses beginning with "01"). Student from within the Saunders College must select elective courses from outside their program of study. An Entrepreneurship minor advisor will work with students to develop an appropriate sequence of courses based upon each individual's career goals and objectives. (Note: A number of non-business elective courses are only available to students from specific colleges/departments.) As a result, several course sequences are recommended by particular RIT colleges for their students.
| Required Courses: | ||
| 0102‑490 | Entrepreneurship | |
| Complete one of the following: | ||
| 0102‑547 | Field Experience In Business Consulting | |
| 0102‑545 | Applied Entrepreneurship And Commercialization | |
| KGCOE Senior Design Capstone | ||
| Selected for RIT Student Incubator1 | ||
| Other Approved Field Experiences2 | ||
| Select from the following to equal at least 12 credit hours:< | ||
| 0102‑250 | The World Of Business | |
| 0105‑363 | Principles Of Marketing | |
| 0102‑415 | Digital Entrepreneurship | |
| 0105‑440 | Internet Marketing | |
| 0104‑359 | Financing New Ventures | |
| 0101‑494* | Cost Accounting In Technical Organizations | |
| 0101‑301 | Financial Accounting | |
| 0101‑302 | Management Accounting | |
| 0102‑530 | Managing Innovation And Technology | |
* Not for Saunders College of Business Students
| College of Imaging Arts and Science: Industrial Design | ||
| 2035‑410 | Consumer Product Des II | |
| 2035‑506 | Design Collaborative | |
| 2035‑527 | Package Design | |
| 2035‑512 | Adv Product Design | |
| College of Applied Science & Technology: Electrical Engineering & Industrial Engineering | ||
| 0609‑410 | Patents & Trade Secrets | |
| 0610‑517 | Prod Idea-concept Select | |
| 0610‑518 | Develop-design New Prod | |
| 0610‑519 | Product Realization | |
| Golisano College of Computer & Information Science: Information Technology | ||
| 4002‑460 | Technology Transfer | |
| 4002‑455 | Needs Assessment | |
1. Contact Dr. Richard DeMartino to learn more about the student business development lab (the RIT Student Incubator). Course credit for entry into the Incubator is available on a competitive basis through the Saunders College of Business.
2. With the support of their home faculty, students may be approved for an alternative field experience.
The faculty advisor is Dr. Jerry Curnutt, Assistant Dean for Administration
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