2026-27 Catalog

Minor in Entrepreneurship

Department website: https://entre.csusb.edu

The Minor in Entrepreneurship is designed to provide added knowledge, skills, and market value for non-business students. By learning key concepts in entrepreneurship such as opportunity recognition, ideation and creative problem solving, customer discovery, and business model development, students will acquire the added capability to launch a new business or contribute to new business development and innovation in existing organizations.

Requirements for a minor in Entrepreneurship (18 units)

In addition to the grade point average requirements stated in Program Requirements for a Bachelor's Degree, students must earn a grade of "C" (2.0) or better in all courses required to fulfill the Minor in Entrepreneurship.

ENTR 3000Entrepreneurship and Innovation3
ENTR 3141The Improvisational Mind3
or TA 3141 The Improvisational Mind
ENTR 4420Small Business Management3
ENTR 5430Ideation and Creative Problem Solving3
ENTR 5435Startup Toolbox: Research Essentials for Entrepreneurs3
ENTR 5440Developing the New Venture3
ENTR 5980Reflective Essay0
Total Units18

NOTE: Students concentrating in Entrepreneurship may not minor in Entrepreneurship. 

Current Faculty

Ezekiel Bonillas, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
B.A. 2004, B.A. 2004, M.B.A. 2006, Cal State University-San Bernardino
D.B.A. 2022, Case Western Reserve University
Peiyi Jia, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
B.A. 2007, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics
M.A. 2009, Boston University
Ph.D. 2022, University Of Lowell
Anna Long, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
B.S. 2013, University at Buffalo
M.B.A. 2015, Canisius College
Ph.D. Baylor University
Michael Stull, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Director
B.A. 1988, M.B.A. 1989, California State University, San Bernardino
E.D.M. 2005, Case Western Reserve University