Curriculum
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Successful entrepreneurship is fundamental to a healthy community. Students majoring in Community Entrepreneurship test the entrepreneurial waters in courses designed to provide firsthand experience in launching and strengthening a business. Students build skills applying strategic planning, marketing, management, economics, and public policy on the enterprise level. This major emphasizes enterprises that promote community development with sound stewardship of natural resources and regard for social capital.
Unique to CENT
- CDAE's award-winning Dollar Enterprise course, CDAE 2660.
- Community partnerships with organizations like Cabot, Hope for Women, Spectrum Youth Services, Intervale Community Farm, and Shelburne Farms.
- Interaction with entrepreneurs in our region and focus areas.
- Essential business skills partnered with community ethics.
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The CDAE Minor
This hands-on minor instills the foundations of successful enterprise development including strategic business planning, marketing techniques, and market analyses and projections. As entrepreneurship is a vital thread in the fabric of a community, students aquire entrepreneurial skills in the context of social responsibility and healthy community development. Many Community Entrepreneurship students start enterprises of their own in the real world while they are still students or upon graduation.
This minor requires 16 credits of coursework in community development, financial management, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
