Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A.

Management
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Joshua Aaron, program coordinator
Joshua.Aaron@mtsu.edu

The major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers preparation to students for successful venture creation and implementation and provides them opportunities to acquire the necessary operational knowledge to start a new enterprise and to study business communication, marketing, finance, management, economics, accounting, and information systems from an entrepreneurial perspective. The curriculum is flexible-students may tailor the program to fit specific needs while acquiring the business background necessary for pursuing entrepreneurial goals. Successful business professionals contribute to the program and an advisory board of recognized entrepreneurial leaders mentors students. Specialized courses, an internship, and interaction with acknowledged business leaders are intended to provide the impetus to start and operate a successful business.

A major in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship consists of 30 hours, 50 percent of which must be taken in residence at MTSU.

The program below includes a required Business Administration minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (TBC)	41 hours
College of Business Core	42 hours*
Major Requirements	30 hours
Auxiliary Course	3 hours*
Business Course	3 hours
Electives	1-10 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

MATH 1630 or MATH 1810 (Quant Lit)
ECON 2410 (HSSR and business core course)
ECON 2420 (HSSR and business core course)

College of Business Core (42 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core which requires 42 hours with a 2.000 GPA.

Major Requirements (30 hours)

ENTR 2900 - Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
ENTR 3600 - Innovation Acceleration 3 credit hours
ENTR 3650 - New Venture Creation 3 credit hours
ENTR 4620 - Business Plan Development 3 credit hours
FIN 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3200 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs 3 credit hours
ENTR/MGMT/MKT elective 3 credit hours
ENTR 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours
ENTR 4100 - Family Business 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3730 - Management of Innovation 3 credit hours OR
ENTR 4255 - Social Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours
ENTR 4950 - Entrepreneurship Applied Experience 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 4950 - Management Applied Experience 1 to 3 credit hours (3 credit hours required)

Auxiliary Course (3 hours)

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (may be counted in the True Blue Core) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (may be counted in the True Blue Core)

Business Elective (3 hours)

Electives (1-10 hours)

Curriculum: Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Freshman Fall

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours
Written Communication 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
Elective 1 credit hour

Subtotal: 14 Hours

Freshman Spring

ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours (HSSR) *
Information Literacy 3 credit hours
Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
ENTR 2900 - Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Sophomore Fall

ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours (HSSR) *
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Spring

ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 3 credit hours *
Elective 6 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Fall

BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours
FIN 3010 - Principles of Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
Business elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Spring

ENTR 4100 - Family Business 3 credit hours § OR
ENTR 4255 - Social Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours § OR
MGMT 3730 - Management of Innovation 3 credit hours §
ENTR 3600 - Innovation Acceleration 3 credit hours OR
MGMT 3600 - Innovation Acceleration 3 credit hours
MKT 3200 - Marketing for Entrepreneurs 3 credit hours
BUS 3000 - The Dale Carnegie Course 3 credit hours
MGMT 3620 - Supply Chain Operations 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Senior Fall

BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
ENTR 3650 - New Venture Creation 3 credit hours §
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
ENTR 4950 - Entrepreneurship Applied Experience 3 credit hours § OR
MGMT 4950 - Management Applied Experience 1 to 3 credit hours § (3 credits required)
ENTR 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management 3 credit hours § OR
FIN 3040 - Entrepreneurial Financial Management 3 credit hours §

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Senior Spring

ENTR 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours § OR
MGMT 4920 - Small Business Management 3 credit hours §
ENTR 4620 - Business Plan Development 3 credit hours §
BUAD 4980 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours §
ENTR/MGMT/MKT elective§ 3 credit hours
Elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

NOTE:

*2.25 GPA required in these courses for admission to Jones College of Business

§ Admission required