Entrepreneurship
- EGR 200/ENT 200: Creativity, Innovation, and DesignThe class mission is to give students an understanding of the sources and processes associated with creativity, innovation, and design - three interdependent capabilities essential to our own well being, as well as to the well being of society. We will study the internal and external factors that relate to our own ability to create, innovate, and design. We will also understand the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs. The class will consist of readings and case studies as well as individual and group projects.
- EGR 201/ENT 201: Creating Value: Introduction to EntrepreneurshipThis class examines the entrepreneurial mindset, and how to put that mindset to work to create value in the world. The class also covers core 'hard skills' of innovation and entrepreneurship (including market evaluation, product testing and iteration, and business modeling). In this class students work in groups assigned to 'solving' some of the biggest global problems using tools learned in the class.
- EGR 219/ENT 219/REL 219: Professional Responsibility & Ethics: Succeeding Without Selling Your SoulThe course objective is to equip future leaders to successfully identify and navigate ethical dilemmas in their careers. The course integrates ethical theory and practice with practical tools for values-based leadership and ethics in professional life (e.g., public policy, for-profit and non-profit, business, tech, and other contexts). It also considers the role of religion as a potential resource for ethical formation and decision-making frameworks. The class explores contemporary case studies and includes guest CEOs and thought leaders from different professional spheres and backgrounds.
- EGR 250/ENT 250: Community Project Studios: Non-creditIn Community Project Studios, students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 251/ENT 251: Community Project StudiosIn Community Project Studios, students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 301/ENT 301: The History of EntrepreneurshipThis course offers an historical survey of key innovations and modes of entrepreneurship across industry sectors. It draws on the many cultures and histories of entrepreneurship, as well as relevant policies and their effects upon innovation, in an effort to discern the leading edge of innovation in today's world. The course also considers the relationship between entrepreneurship, ecology, and societal challenges: suggesting that one's entrepreneurial endeavor can become one's embodied ethical life. The course format will be a mix of lectures, student-led discussions, as well as guest lectures.
- EGR 314/ENT 314: Design Futures: Navigating Uncertainty through Creative MethodologiesThis course invites students to explore the intersection of design, imagination, and future thinking. It provides an in-depth look at various design practices and their associated methodologies that are used to envision and shape potential futures. The first half of the course lays the foundation for understanding long-term thinking and introduces students to various design practices that help envision potential futures. The second half of the course focuses on the application of strategic foresight against an uncertain future.
- EGR 350/ENT 350: Community Project Studios: Non-creditIn Community Project Studios, students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 351/ENT 351: Community Project StudiosIn Community Project Studios, students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 361/ENT 361/URB 361/AAS 348: The Reclamation Studio: Humanistic Design applied to Systemic BiasAssumptions and practices by the nonprofit industrial complex, government agencies and affordable housing developers treat poor communities, especially poor communities of color as problems to be managed by those from outside these communities. The Reclamation Studio explores the humanistic design practices applied by social entrepreneurs from low-status communities near Princeton (our "clients") that counteract that history of systemic bias with innovative development projects designed to retain the talent from within their communities. Students will have the opportunity to learn from, and contribute to their efforts.
- EGR 371/ENT 371: Designing the Future of Work: Public Interest Technology DevelopmentStudents will design and develop novel public-internet technologies that reimagine the future of gig work. They will work with cooperatives of workers and drivers that envision a world where community-owned and open source alternatives are part of the gig work ecosystem. These new platforms aim to be more equitable for couriers, local merchants, and the communities around them by opening up the algorithmic decision-making processes to be defined by all stakeholders. Students will engage in hands-on design and implementation of components of an open-source ecosystem to enable co-ops to take local control of the digital infrastructure.
- EGR 395/ENT 395: Venture Capital and Finance of InnovationVenture capital is a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship, although the unique working details of venture capital firms and their processes are well-kept secrets. Early stage investors not only fund startups but also enable innovation through mentorship and partnership with the entrepreneurs. Understanding how these investors think and operate is critical to students who are interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to those who would like to pursue venture capital.
- EGR 450/ENT 450: Community Project Studios: Non-creditIn Community Project Studios (formerly 'EPICS'), students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 451/ENT 451: Community Project StudiosIn Community Project Studios, students earn academic credit for participation in multidisciplinary teams that work on projects over one or more years. The course mission is to provide a hands-on, experiential environment, in which students (often alongside community partners) bring real-world projects through to fruition. Although the methodology and projects vary for each studio, all teams in the program are supported through skill-development workshops, close-knit advising, and cultures of peer-to-peer collaboration. Students may participate for up to six semesters.
- EGR 473/ENT 473/VIS 473: How to be UndisciplinedThe ability to connect knowledge, methods, and people across the arts and sciences is a critical 21st-century skill needed to tackle complex challenges. However, education and knowledge production largely occurs within domains, departments, and disciplines. Specialization is valuable in the pursuit of deeper understanding, but is also limited. We have and continue to accrue more and more specialized data and knowledge. Yet we struggle to make sense of it and to use it. This course is about developing the urgent skills of connecting, systems thinking, and designing innovations informed by a broad understanding of human experiences.
- EGR 495/ENT 495: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Critical Design StudioThis studio course explores design as a mechanism for social critique. Through scholarly analysis and hands-on design projects, students create compelling design proposals that challenge assumptions and provoke reflection and discourse around a variety of pressing social issues. This course will be of particular interest to students who wish to explore social and ethical dimensions of technology and product development, and to students who are interested in creative and arts-based approaches to social commentary and political activism.
- EGR 497/ENT 497: Entrepreneurial LeadershipThe mission of the class is to enable students to successfully create and lead enterprises by teaching the basic skills required to be a successful entrepreneurial leader. This class compliments EGR 491 "High Tech Entrepreneurship" which focuses on 'giving birth to a company', by focusing instead on enterprise 'early child rearing'. The basic skills taught fall into three major categories: how to create and manage powerful relationships, how to know and manage yourself, in addition to understanding how organizations work as they evolve from the idea stage to become value producing, self-sustaining enterprises.