Any undergraduate student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville can add entrepreneurship to their resume and transcript by earning the interdisciplinary entrepreneurship minor. We have students from very diverse backgrounds that include engineering, agriculture, music, communications, and arts and humanities.
The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Minor is an interdisciplinary minor with classes from seven University of Tennessee colleges. Students are strongly encouraged to take at least one class outside their major college. A complete list of courses is available in the UT Undergraduate Catalog. To declare your entrepreneurship minor, please follow the steps on the Haslam College of Business site.
ENT 350: Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
ENT 451: New Venture Planning (3 hrs)
RMM 411: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (3 hrs)
IE 457: Engineering Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
ENT 375: Name, Image, Likeness (3 hrs)
ENT 410S: Leadership in Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
ENT 415: Start-Overs as Start-Ups (3 hrs)
ENT 425: Entrepreneurial Marketing (3 hrs)
ENT 460: Leading Innovation and Change (3 hrs)
ENT 462: Innovation & Creativity (3 hrs)
ENT 464: Corporate Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
ENT 470: Managing an Entrepreneurial Start-Up (3 hrs)
ENT 480: Franchising (3 hrs)
ENT 485: Funding Strategies for Entrepreneurs (3 hrs)
ENT 492: Entrepreneurship Internship (3 hrs)
ECON 331: Government & Business (3 hrs)
MARK 469: Professional Selling (3 hrs)
EF 437: Honors: Interdisciplinary Senior Design I (3 hrs)
EF 438: Honors: Interdisciplinary Senior Design II (3 hrs)
IE 405: Engineering Economic Analysis (3 hrs)
IE 452: Project Planning & Organizational Management (3 hrs)
MUSC 305: The Business of Music (2 hrs)
AREC 212: Introduction to Agribusiness Management (3 hrs)
ALEC 240: Effective Oral Communication (3 hrs)
ALEC 340: Marketing & Public Strategies for Global Sectors (3 hrs)
AREC 342: Farm Business Management Entrepreneurship (3 hrs)
AREC 442: Advanced Agribusiness Management (3 hrs)
DSGN 430: Design Thinking and Innovation (3 hrs)
GRDS 330: The Art of Presentation and Design (3 hrs)
GRDS 331: The Art of Identity Design (3 hrs)
GRDS 471: Advanced Graphic Design (4 hrs)
GRDS 472: Graphic Design Capstone (4 hrs)
JREM 320: Media Marketing and Promotions (3 hrs)
JREM 330: Communication for Media (3 hrs)
JREM 441: Entrepreneurship in Journalism and Media (3 hrs)
INSC 461: Info. Architecture & the User Experience (3 hrs)
ADPR 365: Social Media Strategy (3 hrs)
ADPR 375: Integrating Communication Channels (3 hrs)
PBRL 400: Ethical & Legal Issues in Public Relations (3 hrs)
Haslam College of Business
College of Education, Health and Human Services
Tickle College of Engineering
Herbert College of Agriculture
College of Arts & Sciences
College of Architecture and Design
College of Communication and Information
Any undergraduate student enrolled at the University of Tennessee can take the entrepreneurship minor.
One of the key purposes of ENT 350 Introduction to Entrepreneurship is to help you answer this question. If you think entrepreneurship might be for you, we encourage you to check out ENT 350 and answer that question for yourself!
The minor encompasses 15 credit hours (typically 5 courses).
No. Students will get credit for only one or the other. The entrepreneurship collateral is only available to majors within the Haslam College of Business. The entrepreneurship minor is open to students from any major on campus.
This varies by course. Please carefully check prerequisites and registration restrictions in the course catalog. In general, “ENT” designated courses will have ENT 350 – Introduction to Entrepreneurship as a prerequisite, but most have limited prerequisites to make it easy for a wide variety of majors to take these courses.
Your first stop should be the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation website. From there, you can find out what is going on here on campus as well as throughout the local area.
With the strong trend of technological innovation, businesses are increasingly looking for employees who have the entrepreneurial mindset and can bring entrepreneurial skills to their careers. The minor will provide the skills needed to identify opportunities, evaluate their feasibility and develop a plan to implement the product or service. With the entrepreneurship minor, you will understand the challenges of financing and marketing an intrapreneurial idea, and you will develop skills for seeing the big picture, bringing that skill set to the workplace and standing out early in your career.
A three-course collateral in entrepreneurship is offered to Haslam College of Business students majoring in finance, human resource management, management and marketing. Although the collateral is only open to Haslam students, the courses are open to all UT Knoxville and UT Institute of Agriculture students. These classes provide valuable insight into the challenges an entrepreneur faces, and help students develop the skills necessary to identify opportunities, construct plans and start on the value-creation journey.
The Entrepreneurship Learning Community (LC) is designed to bring together students from different colleges who share a desire to become value-creators and successful entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship LC provides an opportunity to interact with other students who are interested in someday starting a business.
Entrepreneurship Learning Community Requirements: