The Leadership Development Minor will help you develop the leadership skills you need to make an impact both on and off campus. The minor is interdisciplinary in nature, so you can align it with the needs and interests of your major field of study. Engaging in the study of theoretical, contextual, and practical perspectives of leadership allows students to develop the toolbox of skills necessary to make an impact both on and off campus. The Leadership Development Minor provides students with opportunities to stretch their leadership capacities through a series of courses that will force them to discern about and recognize their individual approaches to leadership, teach them about the effects that leaders can have on followers and justice issues, and develop their abilities to recognize opportunities to create change.
View Full Course Catalog
| Course Code | Course Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Code | LP 1010 | ||
| Course Description |
Students practice creativity through techniques for improving the flexibility and originality of their thinking, thereby developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Using this mindset, students generate ideas and recognize problems worth solving using different creative approaches in various settings and fields. Students work with a team to develop an innovative solution to one of these problems, to identify an audience for it, and to communicate the solution to that audience.Offered: Fall and Spring. |
||
| Course Code | LP 1020 | ||
| Course Description |
This experiential course continues the process critical to the entrepreneurial mindset. Students will practice human-centered design processes, idea generation and validation, product prototyping, business design and modeling, customer development, and persuasive pitching. This course requires individual and team presentations. Prerequisites: EN 1250 (or equivalent) and (ER 201 or ER 2201). |
||
| Course Code | LP 1350 | ||
| Course Description |
Applies the skills developed in ER 301 to social enterprises. Introduces the meaning and importance of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy and demonstrates how entrepreneurial orientation can assist in the attainment of nonprofit and social objectives as a means to obtain social justice. Students work in teams to develop a social entrepreneurial project and then present it in oral and written form to entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: (ER 201 of ER2201) and (ER 301 or ER3301). Offered: Fall and Spring. |
||
| Course Code | LP 2500 | ||
| Course Description |
IIntroduces accounting and finance concepts and fundamentals for an entrepreneurial venture or idea. Focuses on the money needed to start a venture, revenue and expense forecasting, and sources of start-up capital. Also covers business ownership options and issues, and ethical issues as they relate to entrepreneurial finance. Prerequisite: ER 3301 or ER301; College of Arts and Sciences students only. Offered: Fall only. |
||
| Course Code | LP 3040 | ||
| Course Description |
Introduces marketing and sales concepts for entrepreneurial ventures, using real-life experiences and products to develop marketing and sales programs and to present them to entrepreneurs and business owners. Involves working in teams to develop marketing sales plans and the ability to present ideas in both oral and written form. Prerequisite: ER 3301 or ER 301; College of Arts and Sciences students only. Offered: Spring only. |
||
| Course Code | Course Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Code | Ethics | ||
| Course Description |
Choose one from the following:
|
||
| Course Code | Communication | ||
| Course Description |
Choose from one of the following:
|
||
| Course Code | All Courses Required | ||
| Course Description |
|
||
Differentiate yourself. Pursue leadership opportunities on campus and in the community, engage with our global network of more than 1,000 student organizations, and immerse yourself in the College’s unique Jesuit mission
Find Opportunities to Lead
Learn from the best. Boler’s forward-thinking faculty are leading the charge with experiential, collaborative learning that will challenge you as a thinker and leader.
Learn More About The Program
75%
of All Entrepreneurs Started as Arts & Sciences Majors
LaunchNET
A Cross-Campus Program Funded by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation That Expands Opportunities for Students to Develop and Implement Their Ideas Beyond the Classroom.
25%
Of JCU Students Who Enrolled in an Entrepreneurship Center Program
View Course Catalog
