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Entrepreneurship Option
Blend your passion for computer science with your desire to innovate by developing your entrepreneurial skills through business courses.
Curriculum requirements (120 hours)
A grade of C or better is required for all requirements prefixed with an '*'.
Italicized text denotes changes from the base curriculum.
Required CIS courses (38 hours)
- CIS 015 Undergraduate Seminar (0 hours – required for all students new to the program)
- CIS 018 Professional Development Seminar (0 hours - required for all students every semester after their first)
- *CIS 115 Introduction to Computing Science (3 hours)
- *CIS 200 Programming Fundamentals (4 hours)
- *CIS 300 Data and Program Structures (3 hours)
- *CIS 301 Logical Foundations of Programming (3 hours)
- *CIS 308 C/C++ Programming Laboratory (1 hour)
- *CIS 400 Object Oriented Design and Implementation (3 hours)
- * CIS 415 Ethics and Conduct for Computing Professionals (3 hours)
- *CIS 450 Computer Architecture and Operations (3 hours)
- *CIS 501 Software Architecture and Design (3 hours)
- *CIS 505 Introduction to Programming Languages (3 hours)
- *CIS 560 Database System Concepts (3 hours)
- *CIS 575 Introduction to Algorithm Analysis (3 hours)
- *CIS 596 Entrepreneurship Project to be taken in the fall immediately preceding ENTRP 350 (3 hours)
Technical electives (3 hours)
- *One of:
- CIS 520 Operating Systems I (3 hours)
- CIS 525 Introduction to Network Programming (3 hours)
- CIS 625 Parallel Programming (3 hours)
Additional entrepreneurship courses (15 hours)
- ENTRP 340 Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3 hours)
- ENTRP 575 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Capstone to be taken in the semester immediately following 596 (3 hours)
- Nine hours of additional coursework from —
- ENTRP 350 Technology and Innovation Management (3 hours)
- ENTRP 411 Innovation in Organizations (3 hours)
- ENTRP 435 The Entrepreneurial Experience (3 hours)
- ENTRP 466 Digital Business (3 hours)
- ENTRP 520 Social Entrepreneurship (3 hours)
- ENTRP 540 Entrepreneurial Consulting (3 hours)
- ENTRP 497 Topics in Entrepreneurship (1-3 hours)
- MANGT 390 Business Law (3 hours)
- FINAN 561 Finance for Entrepreneurs (3 hours)
- MANGT 520 Organizational Behavior (3 hours)
- MANGT 531 Human Resources Management (3 hours)
Quantitative courses (14 hours)
- *MATH 220 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (4 hours)
- *MATH 221 Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (4 hours)
- *MATH 510 Discrete Mathematics (3 hours)
- *STAT 510 Introductory Probability and Statistics I (3 hours)
Other required courses (21 hours)
- *ECE 241 Introduction to Computer Engineering (3 hours)
- *ENGL 100 Expository Writing I (3 hours)
- *ENGL 200 Expository Writing II (3 hours)
- * One of —
- ENGL 415 Written Communication for Engineers (3 hours)
- ENGL 516 Written Communication for the Sciences (3 hours)
- *COMM 106 Public Speaking I (3 hours)
- One of —
- COMM 322 Interpersonal Communication (3 hours)
- COMM 323 Nonverbal Communication (3 hours)
- COMM 326 Small Group Discussion Methods (3 hours)
- MANGT 420 Management Concepts (3 hours)
- THTRE 261 Fundamentals of Acting (3 hours)
- THTRE 265 Fundamentals of Improvisation I, II (3 hours)
- *ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 hours)
Humanities and social sciences (12 hours)
- Twelve hours must be taken from the list approved by the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering.
Math / science electives (17 hours; must include at least one course at the 300 level or above)
At least 17 hours from the following:
- BIOCH 265 Introductory Organic and Biochemistry (5 hours)
- BIOCH 521 General Biochemistry (3 hours)
- BIOL 198 Principles of Biology (4 hours)
- BIOL 401 Organismic Biology (5 hours)
- BIOL 450 Modern Genetics (4 hours)
- BIOL 455 General Microbiology (4 hours)
- CHM 210 Chemistry I (4 hours)
- CHM 230 Chemistry II (4 hours)
- At most one of CHM 350 General Organic Chemistry (3 hours) or CHM 531 Organic Chemistry I (3 hours)
- CHM 371 Chemical Analysis (4 hours)
- CHM 550 Organic Chemistry II (3 hours)
- GEOL 100 Earth in Action (3 hours)
- GEOL 102 Earth Through Time (3 hours)
- GEOL 103 Geology Laboratory (1 hour)
- GEOL 502 Mineralogy (3 hours)
- MATH 222 Analytic Geometry and Calculus III (4 hours)
- MATH 340 Elementary Differential Equations (4 hours)
- MATH 506 Introduction to Number Theory (3 hours)
- MATH 511 Introduction to Algebraic Systems (3 hours)
- MATH 512 Introduction to Modern Algebra (3 hours)
- MATH 515 Introduction to Linear Algebra (3 hours)
- MATH 551 Applied Matrix Theory (3 hours)
- MATH 572 Foundations of Geometry (3 hours)
- MATH 633 Advanced Calculus I (3 hours)
- At most one of PHYS 113 General Physics I (4 hours), PHYS 213 Engineering Physics I (5 hours), or PHYS 223 Physics I, Mechanics, and Thermodynamics (5 hours)
- At most one of PHYS 114 General Physics II (4 hours), PHYS 214 Engineering Physics II (5 hours), or PHYS 224 Physics II, Electromagnetism, and Sound (5 hours)
- PHYS 325 Physics III, Relativity and Quantum Physics (4 hours)
- STAT 511 Introductory Probability and Statistics II (3 hours)
One of the following two-semester sequences must be included:
- BIOL 198 and 401 (9 hours)
- CHM 210 and 230 (8 hours)
- PHYS 213 and 214 (10 hours)
- PHYS 223 and 224 (10 hours)
One of the following mathematics courses must be included:
- MATH 222 Analytic Geometry and Calculus III (4 hours)
- MATH 340 Elementary Differential Equations (4 hours)
- MATH 506 Introduction to Number Theory (3 hours)
- MATH 511 Introduction to Algebraic Systems (3 hours)
- MATH 512 Introduction to Modern Algebra (3 hours)
- MATH 515 Introduction to Linear Algebra (3 hours)
- MATH 551 Applied Matrix Theory (3 hours)
- MATH 572 Foundations of Geometry (3 hours)
- MATH 633 Advanced Calculus I (3 hours)
- STAT 511 Introductory Probability and Statistics II (3 hours)