Effective: Fall 2024

Entrepreneurship is more than just starting a business. Entrepreneurs transform the world around us through risk-taking actions and value-creating organizations. They drive enormous social and economic changes at local, national, and global levels.

The Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Certificate of  Competency has three main aims:

1. to create focused pathways through a curriculum that allows students to supplement work in their academic interests with an understanding of entrepreneurship and social innovation;

2. to leverage, expand, and enhance the academic and career pursuits with an entrepreneurial spirit; and

3. to promote an interdisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship.

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• Determine and explain how business enterprises create value for society.
• Identify and evaluate the creation of positive impact on society through commercial and social enterprises.
• Identify, develop, and evaluate opportunities for new businesses.
• Design a practical business plan for a new business.
• Identify and explain key legal concepts and laws relevant to new businesses.

The College will award a certificate of competency to students who complete an approved credit-bearing career program that requires less than 30 credits. General education courses may not be required for programs that have less than 30 credits. The student must have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher. At least six credit hours must be in courses that are awarded grade points.