ENTR101 Entrepreneurial Mindset

This interdisciplinary course will help students understand what it takes to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and skills.  Students will develop personal skills such as:  self-efficacy, resourcefulness, grit, leadership, persistency and opportunity recognition.  The skills and attributes of an entrepreneurial mindset can be useful to all students regardless of their field of study and major.  Students will also learn the basics of utilizing design thinking tools and techniques to build problem solving skills.  Design thinking will allow students to look at problems they have identified in a human centric way.  As a requirement for the course, students will work in small teams to identify and devise solutions for either a community based problem or an opportunity they want to explore in their field of study.  In addition, this course will allow students to celebrate failure as a valuable learning experience.