34 courses with the subject ENT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENT 105The Entrepreneurial Experience: From Mindset to
Entrepreneurial Identity. (1 h) An exploration and analysis of the entrepreneurial lifecycle from ideation, concept development, launching and building a company, and eventually exiting, with specific focus on developing an entrepreneurial mindset and forming an entrepreneurial identity. The course features guest speakers who have founded companies in various industries.
ENT 200Foundations of Entrepreneurship: Identifying and Cultivating
Valuable Ideas. (3 h) Examines and cultivates the notion of creativity from the perspective of value creation, inquiry, opportunity recognition, and idea generation. Topics examined through writing and design assignments, group projects, and discussions include awareness, empathy, risk, ethics, self- agency, and social engagement with the express objective of identifying and creating valuable ideas. Provides an introduction to the practice of entrepreneurship and design thinking, along with the development of an entrepreneurial mindset.
ENT 201Evidence-Based Entrepreneurship: Developing Validated
Concepts. (3 h) Examines how individuals use entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to societal and market needs. Using customer discovery and other evidence-based entrepreneurial methods, students participate in the progression of ideas into validated concepts. P-ENT 200.
ENT 205Scaling the Entrepreneurial Venture: From Concept to Harvest
(3 h) Explores the stage in the entrepreneurial lifecycle where validated concepts transition to established ventures. The course is designed to provide exposure to topics critical to success, such as how to scale the venture past early adopters to meet the needs of more mainstream customers. It covers key functional domains including entrepreneurial marketing, finance, fundraising, leadership, and strategy. P - ENT 201.
ENT 250Communicating for an Entrepreneurial Mindset3
Exploration of communication in today’s workplaces and the expectations for leaders and employees to communicate “entrepreneurially.” Focus on communication across settings where teamwork is prioritized. Also listed as COM 250.
Introduces entrepreneurial processes and practices in the visual arts, theater, dance, music, and creative writing. Seminar format includes encounters with arts entrepreneurs, investigation of case studies, and research in new and evolving models for creative application of entrepreneurial practices in the arts.
Explore and examine entrepreneurial marketing strategies that early-stage entrepreneurs with limited resources can implement immediately. Focus includes: digital marketing, branding, messaging, and a hands-on approach to developing an online marketing strategy.
Interactive studio/seminar that introduces students to the concepts and practices of creativity, innovation, design, and sustainability. Through whole-person engagement, architectural design processes, and place-making studies, students explore the impact of human behaviors on all areas of life and society along a continuum of local to global.
ENT 314Leadership and Character in Entrepreneurship3
Explores and examines the leadership and character challenges accompanying the entrepreneurial journey. Includes ways to develop personal perspective, how to frame challenges and ethically navigate them, and how to lead with purpose and principle.
Explores how startups and growth ventures raise, manage, and allocate financial resources. Students gain experience with valuation, funding strategies, and deal structures while learning to navigate the uncertainties unique to entrepreneurial environments.
Interdisciplinary seminar that introduces the concepts of entrepreneurship with a focus on entrepreneurial activities that further the public good through the integration of core concepts of social and cultural values and ecological sustainability.
This trans-disciplinary, 4-week program explores the role of social entrepreneurship in society today and challenges students, through a rigorous and integrated curriculum to master the entrepreneurial process involved in furthering the public good through community-based engagement and social change. P-Prerequisite override required.
Explores and examines entrepreneurial marketing strategies that early-stage entrepreneurs with limited resources can implement immediately. Topics include branding, messaging, digital marketing, and online marketing strategies.
Surveys African American entrepreneurial activity in the United States and explores the varied and complex nature of American enterprise in conjunction with the African American experience.
Introduces students to the routes by which scientific discoveries and new technologies find their way to the market place. Covers ideation, determining market potential, business planning, intellectual property, entrepreneurship ethics, venture capital, and venture incubation.
ENT 334Entrepreneurial Communities and Winston-Salem3
This course uses narrative theory to examine how myths, stories, and other tropes form the basis on which we understand entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Attention is given to diverse and alternative stories an practices. Students will collect and analyze entrepreneur narratives. Also listed as COM 334.
ENT 350Internships in Entrepreneurial Studies1.5-3
Offers the opportunity to apply knowledge in an entrepreneurial for- profit or not-for-profit environment. Requirements include a course journal and a comprehensive report that showcase the student's specific achievements and analyze the quality of his or her experience. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P - Prerequisite override required. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 179
ENT 351Green Technologies: Science and Entrepreneurship2-3
Introduces the science and entrepreneurship opportunities of select green technologies. Students learn in the fundamental science associated with energy use and renewable energy and selected green technologies. Students also learn the basics of starting a new business and develop a business plan to bring a "green product" to the market. P-CHM 341 or ENT 201 or prerequisite override required. Only offered for 2 or 3 hours.
ENT 384Design-Thinking and High-Performance Teams3
In this experiential class, we study the evolution of high-performance teams in design-thinking environments. At its core, design thinking is an approach to innovative problem solving that balances art, science, and business perspectives in realistic and highly impactful ways. In this course we develop the ability to participate in and lead high-performance teams within a design-thinking environment. The course involves an action-learning project that applies the perspectives of anthropology, history, political science, communication, and psychology, among others, in solving a real-world problem. Also listed as BEM 384.
An independent project involving entrepreneurship or social enterprise carried out under the supervision of the faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P-Prerequisite override required.
An independent project involving entrepreneurship or social enterprise carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P-Prerequisite override required.
This course is built around the real-time challenges and learning that occur as the students in the class launch, run, build, and sell or transition their venture. Promotes intense rigorous intellectual exchange in a seminar setting in which all will not only participate in critical thinking and analysis, but also in problem solving and leadership. Course may be repeated for credit. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P-Prerequisite override required.
This course is built around the real-time challenges and learning that occur as the students in the class launch, run, build, and sell or transition their venture. Promotes intense rigorous intellectual exchange in a seminar setting in which all will not only participate in critical thinking and analysis, but also in problem solving and leadership. Course may be repeated for credit. Only offered for 1.5 or 3 hours. P-Prerequisite override required. d
Applies initial steps of establishing an entrepreneurial entity using evidence-based principles and practices in entrepreneurship. P-Prerequisite override required.
Startup Lab is designed to help students take high potential ideas and, after learning best practices on evidence-based entrepreneurship, apply lean startup methodology to their own startup. Students will learn key aspects of building an early stage company such as how to make crucial early stage sales, how to build brand loyalty with early stage customers, key aspects of accounting, finance, and human resources that apply to startups, and how to lead a team. This is a practicum and much of the learning is application-oriented and focuses directly on the startup or the startup team. P-Prerequisite override required.