Courses Requirement

Requirement 1: Five Courses

  • Two common introductory courses: EGR 200/ENT 200 and EGR 201/ENT 201
  • Two core courses: must be chosen from a list, which may be updated each year by the Executive Committee
  • One contextual breadth course: to be chosen from a list of suggestions or be proposed by students to the program director

Double counting is restricted to two courses; PDF is restricted to one course and cannot be applied to the required introductory courses (EGR/ENT 200 and EGR/ENT 201).

Introductory Courses (two required courses)

  • EGR/ENT 200 Creativity, Innovation, and Design
  • EGR/ENT 201 Creating Value: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Two Core Courses (choose two out of the courses listed)

  • ANT/ENT 302 Ethnography for Research and Design
  • COS 448 Innovating across Technology, Business, and Marketplaces
  • EGR/ENT/REL 219 Professional Responsibility & Ethics: Succeeding Without Selling Your Soul
  • EGR/ENT 301 The History of Entrepreneurship
  • EGR/ENT 314 Design Futures: Navigating Uncertainty through Creative Methodologies
  • EGR 360 Policy Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
  • EGR/ENT/URB 361/AAS 348 The Reclamation Studio: Humanistic Design applied to Systemic Bias
  • EGR/ENT 371 Designing the Future of Work: Public Interest Technology Development
  • ENT 380/1 eLab: Creating Value in the Real World (year long)
  • EGR/ENT 395 Venture Capital and Finance of Innovation
  • EGR/ENT/ECE 491 High-Tech Entrepreneurship
  • EGR/ENT 497 Entrepreneurial Leadership

One contextual breadth course

The contextual breadth course is to be chosen from a list of suggestions or be proposed by students to the program director, ideally with a relationship to a student’s direct interest or to a potential junior paper or senior thesis topic. Students from science or engineering must use a course from the humanities or social science to satisfy the breadth course requirement.

Unlike the above list of core courses, the below list of possible breadth courses is illustrative only. Each student may suggest other courses outside of this list, subject to approval by the program director.

An illustrative list of possible breadth courses:

  • ECO 317 Economics of Uncertainty
  • ECO 385 Ethics & Economics
  • EGR 277 Technology & Society
  • SPI 340 / PSY 321 Psychology of Decision Making

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