Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Creativity
The Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity offers an innovative approach to the increasingly complex and changing business environment. The program includes four major elements:
The coursework and instruction associated with the program is both theoretical and experiential, enabling you to apply course information to your current and prospective work environments.
While this is considered an undergraduate certificate program, all students, with different levels of academic background and professional experience, and whose goals and interests in entrepreneurship and leadership are consistent with the program goals, may apply to the program or register for the courses as long as they have met program admission requirements and course prerequisites.
Courses
This is a 24-credit-unit certificate program, composed of required courses and elective courses. Required courses: a) provide basic information, skills, and tools with which to understand and practice entrepreneurship, both in the conventional sense of business startup and the broader sense of social entrepreneurship; and b) provide strategies for effective leadership and management in a variety of entrepreneurial work environments. Elective courses, which must be drawn from Arts & Sciences disciplines: a) place entrepreneurship and creativity in a broader historical and intellectual context; and b) provide different perspectives, examples, and applications associated with creativity, innovative thinking, and entrepreneurial activity. All courses, required and elective, are University College, evening courses. Other elective courses, evening and day, also may be taken, subject to University College approval.
Required Courses-15 Credit Units
Entrepreneurship (Business U44 232)
Social Entrepreneurship (Business U44 410)
Leadership for Organizational Success (Business U44 305)
Financial and Managerial Accounting (Business U44 263)
Marketing Concepts (Business U44 270)
Elective Courses-9 Units (select three courses)
Creativity: Theory and Application (Education U08 360)
History of American Business, Management, and Technology (History U16 3776)
Adult Learning Strategies and Practices (Education U08 597)
Philosophy of Science (proposed)
Topics Course in Art (Art and Archaeology, proposed)
Topics Course in Music (Music, proposed)
Topics Course in Science (Biology, Physics, proposed)
Topics Course in Literature and Culture (English, MLA, AMCS, proposed)
Subject to approval, students may select other relevant evening courses, or day courses, to be used as program electives. Topics courses from other Arts & Sciences disciplines are also being discussed and developed.
Policies and Procedures
- A toolkit of basic principles and skills for the study and practice of entrepreneurship and business startup
- Basic grounding in the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship, which focuses on the social, as well as the economic value, of entrepreneurial activity
- Analysis of the broader context of entrepreneurship, drawing on perspectives from Arts & Sciences disciplines to examine social, economic, historical, and cultural forces that influence the subject
- Multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives for examining creativity, leadership, and innovation as important elements of entrepreneurial thinking and behavior.
The coursework and instruction associated with the program is both theoretical and experiential, enabling you to apply course information to your current and prospective work environments.
While this is considered an undergraduate certificate program, all students, with different levels of academic background and professional experience, and whose goals and interests in entrepreneurship and leadership are consistent with the program goals, may apply to the program or register for the courses as long as they have met program admission requirements and course prerequisites.
Courses
This is a 24-credit-unit certificate program, composed of required courses and elective courses. Required courses: a) provide basic information, skills, and tools with which to understand and practice entrepreneurship, both in the conventional sense of business startup and the broader sense of social entrepreneurship; and b) provide strategies for effective leadership and management in a variety of entrepreneurial work environments. Elective courses, which must be drawn from Arts & Sciences disciplines: a) place entrepreneurship and creativity in a broader historical and intellectual context; and b) provide different perspectives, examples, and applications associated with creativity, innovative thinking, and entrepreneurial activity. All courses, required and elective, are University College, evening courses. Other elective courses, evening and day, also may be taken, subject to University College approval.
Required Courses-15 Credit Units
Entrepreneurship (Business U44 232)
Social Entrepreneurship (Business U44 410)
Leadership for Organizational Success (Business U44 305)
Financial and Managerial Accounting (Business U44 263)
Marketing Concepts (Business U44 270)
Elective Courses-9 Units (select three courses)
Creativity: Theory and Application (Education U08 360)
History of American Business, Management, and Technology (History U16 3776)
Adult Learning Strategies and Practices (Education U08 597)
Philosophy of Science (proposed)
Topics Course in Art (Art and Archaeology, proposed)
Topics Course in Music (Music, proposed)
Topics Course in Science (Biology, Physics, proposed)
Topics Course in Literature and Culture (English, MLA, AMCS, proposed)
Subject to approval, students may select other relevant evening courses, or day courses, to be used as program electives. Topics courses from other Arts & Sciences disciplines are also being discussed and developed.
Policies and Procedures
- All courses must be completed with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0.
- A maximum of six units of transfer credit may be applied to the certificate.
- Courses taken toward a University College undergraduate certificate program may be applied to a University College bachelor of science degree, as distribution, general elective, or major elective courses. A maximum of 6 units of course work from a University College undergraduate certificate may be used as core major courses in a University College bachelor of science degree.
Admission Requirements and Procedures
In order to be considered for admission to the Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity, you must have already completed at least one college-level English composition course and one other college-level course, each with a grade of B or better.
To apply for admission to the Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity, the following items must be submitted with your Application for Admission to a University College Undergraduate Degree or Certificate Program:
1.Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity Admission Application Supplement.
2. Updated resume.
3. Statement of Academic and Professional Objectives: a 300-word statement summarizing how your professional and educational goals are consistent with the objectives of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity.
All courses also may be taken on a stand-alone basis. For more information contact University College, at (314) 935-4320, or E-mail ucollege@artsci.wustl.edu.
