Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts: Reflection and change
This paper describes the evolution of Muhlenberg College's entrepreneurship
studies program (ESP). During summer 2004, a task force met to evaluate the
ESP and consider possible changes. The task force identified several goals.
First, the ESP should be more open and available to a wider variety of students.
Second, the ESP should be more explicitly interdisciplinary. Third, students
should be exposed to entrepreneurial activities as early as possible, and then
revisit those activities in more detail in subsequent courses. The revised ESP
minor consists of four entrepreneurship courses, and three electives chosen
from a list of courses in a variety of disciplines, including communications,
english, philosophy, political science, and psychology. The revised ESP major
consists of eight foundation and core business courses, three entrepreneurship
courses, and one elective. In the future we hope to develop additional courses
that would appeal to students in the ESP as well as other programs.
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