Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor

Introduction

Entrepreneurship and Innovation at WWU: Passion, Purpose, Profession.

The highly experiential Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor offers an interdisciplinary education spurring remarkable transformation, agency and growth for all students personally and professionally. We believe entrepreneurship and innovation is for everyone: all majors, ages, geographical areas and cultures. Together we create accelerated growth, excitement with students, and practical lifelong learning skills. We also believe that entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers are essential to addressing our world’s most pressing challenges as we move into the future.

Students learn customer discovery, venture/business modeling to identify needs, generate opportunities and link people and resources together for practical and innovative solutions. Students will experience entrepreneurship in a variety of contexts including non-for profit, social enterprise and commercial purposes. 

Why Consider an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor?

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor provides a diverse community to discover your passions and focus with purpose into your professional life. We hold that entrepreneurship and innovation are skills that can be taught to everyone who is eager to learn. The minor empowers students to integrate entrepreneurship and innovation with their major areas of study, creating a powerful combination for success in the professional world. While the minor is highly useful for those desiring to start and grow their own ventures, it is also valuable for those who desire to be intrapreneurs and drive innovative change inside existing organizations. With options for a focus on leadership or founders tracks; students experiment and gain the specific knowledge and skills related to their interests.

Student Resources

Department website: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Contact information: Arthur Sherwood, Ph.D., Program Director, 360-650-4146, arthur.sherwood@wwu.edu

Degree Works: Current students should also log on to Degree Works to check student-specific program progress.

Career Services Center: Connect major to a career

Sample careers: With its interdisciplinary approach, the minor enhances every student’s potential. Everyone can be entrepreneurial and innovative regardless of their chosen paths from founding new ventures to being entrepreneurial innovative small business, corporate, nonprofit and governmental leaders.

How to Declare (Admission and Declaration Process):

Students must complete four credits of ENTR 246 with an average grade of 2.50 or higher. Complete and submit the CBE Minor Application form. Open to all WWU students.

Grade Requirements

A grade of C- or better is required for a student’s major or minor courses, and supporting courses for majors and minors. A GPA of 2.50 or above is required in courses for the minor.