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NEWPATH: IT Entrepreneurship Program for Computing Students

NEWPATH: IT Entrepreneurship Program for Computing Students

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Entrepreneurship Education for NEWPATH students: Entrepreneurship Minor

One of the key elements of the NEWPATH program is the training in entrepreneurial principles and practices that it provides to students. An essential component of this is the requirement that all students in the program complete the entrepreneurship minor offered by the Fisher College of Business.

The entrepreneurship minor program is designed to be flexible to meet the needs of students of different backgrounds and with different interests. The minor program requires students to complete the following two courses:

  1. Bus MHR 290 (5 cr. hrs), Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Modern Business;
  2. Bus MHR 490 (4 cr. hrs), New Venture Creation;
In addition, all students pursuing the minor are required to complete at least three other courses from a list of electives (specified at entrepreneurship minor web site). NEWPATH students will find the following elective courses especially appropriate:
  1. Bus Finance 590 (4 cr. hrs), Entrepreneurial Finance;
  2. Bus Mktg & Log. 490 (4 cr. hrs), Entrepreneurial Marketing;
  3. Bus MHR 590 (4 cr. hrs), Leading High Performance Ventures.

Some of the NEWPATH faculty were instrumental in setting up the entrepreneurship minor program in the Fisher College; and are directly and extensively involved in several of the courses listed above. These faculty, along with the NEWPATH computing, faculty will serve as advisors/mentors for NEWPATH students.

When OSU switches to semesters, the Fisher College plans to continue offering this minor and NEWPATH students will be expected to complete it. The semester version of the minor is very similar to the current version and is available here. The five courses that NEWPATH students will take as part of the minor are: Bus MHR 2500, Bus MHR 3510, Bus Fin 3290, Bus Mktg & Log. 3241, and Bus MHR 3520; these are fairly direct replacements for the five courses, listed above, that NEWPATH students currently have to take. It is okay to take some courses under quarters and others under semesters.

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