Minor Entrepreneurship Minor
Chair of Management Department:
Shaomin Li
SLi@odu.edu
Faculty Advisor & Entrepreneurship Area Coordinator:
Karen Eagle
KEagle@odu.edu
The entrepreneurship interdisciplinary minor is intended to prepare students to solve business and social problems by creating new ventures within or outside existing organizations. A minor in entrepreneurship allows students to practice their own creative talents while applying fundamental business concepts. Students learn to embrace uncertainty, overcome challenges, create value, and develop an entrepreneurial mindset to make a difference in the world and in the marketplace. Courses give students the information, abilities, and entrepreneurial spirit necessary to start their own businesses, take on leadership roles in already-existing enterprises, manage small and family-owned firms, and approach difficult problems with new perspectives, making them more equipped to handle the demands of the modern economy, which is fast-paced and unpredictable, and where success is determined by the ability to see opportunities, innovate, and move quickly to market.
The interdisciplinary minor requires 12 credit hours of 300/400-level courses selected from at least two different disciplines with a maximum of six credits from any one discipline. For completion of the interdisciplinary minor, students must have a minimum overall cumulative grade point average of 2.00 in all courses specified as a requirement for the minor exclusive of lower-level courses and prerequisite courses. At least six hours of upper-level courses must be taken through courses offered by Old Dominion University. Three credit hours may be in the major, if a major course is listed as an option for the interdisciplinary minor. As such, it will be credited toward both the major and the interdisciplinary minor.