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The field of accounting includes several branches: auditing (assessing company-wide compliance with proper accounting procedures), financial accounting (preparing financial statements for managers to share with bankers, regulators, suppliers, etc.), managerial accounting (preparing financial statements to facilitate managerial decision-making), and tax (preparing tax filings for the Internal Revenue Service which demonstrate compliance with the Internal Revenue Code).

All areas of accounting need accountants who understand how the various functions within a business work together, as well as the external environment in which the business operates. In addition to being technically competent in accounting itself, successful accountants are cross-functional thinkers who accurately assess the status of entire businesses. They provide managers with meaningful insights that guide decision-making, and documentation that informs stakeholders including employees, investors, government, bankers, suppliers, and others.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping accounting students develop the cross-functional understanding and managerial decision-making skills they need to become the accounting professionals of tomorrow. Accounting students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other accounting graduates in the job market.

There is substantial demand for accountants that understand entrepreneurs and their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

Accounting students with entrepreneurship experience can pursue career paths such as:

• Working for accounting (CPA) firms that service small/medium sized businesses
• Working in accounting to gain experience for 3-5 years and then starting your own businesses (e.g., an accounting practice of their own or another entrepreneurial startup)
• Consulting to entrepreneurs (e.g., helping them to prepare financial projections in their business plans)
• Climbing the promotional ladder in accounting and becoming controller of a small/medium sized business
• Joining entrepreneurial startup businesses in accounting roles.

Architects design, produce, and modify buildings that are useful, durable, aesthetically appealing, and responsive to the demands of their physical and social environments. Interior design professionals develop the interior spaces of buildings in order to meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of the individuals that use/inhabit them. In these ways, architectural and interior design professionals contribute to the businesses, governments, and families they serve.

Many architects and interior designers explore the idea of launching their own firms after graduating from UC. A valuable step in this career path is to include the study of entrepreneurship in your program while at UC. Doing so enables you to prepare to launch your own new venture upon graduation or after you have gained a few years of work experience.

By studying entrepreneurship, you will be able to develop important skills and experience:

• Assessing your personal readiness to launch and manage your own business
• Launching a revenue generating small business in a classroom environment
• Estimating customer demand and the potential of a market for your services
• Forecasting revenues, expenses, and cashflows
• Assessing the health of businesses, business opportunities, and industries
• Exploring the nature of family businesses and learning how to contribute to them
• Managing relationships and consulting to real world clients/customers
• Designing new venture plans including all business functions (e.g., accounting, finance, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain considerations)

By entering your career with these business skills in hand, you will be equipped to assess the business health of prospective employers enabling you to make wise career decisions. You will have the skills necessary to launch a side business to earn extra income and add variety to your career. You will be prepared to successfully plan and run your own architecture business. You will also be better prepared to serve entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. As 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA, there is significant demand for professionals that understand both architecture and entrepreneurship/corporate entrepreneurship.

The field of communication design teaches students skills in a wide variety of mediums. Graphic communications encompasses all phases of the graphic communications process from origination of the idea, including design, layout, and typography, through reproduction, finishing and distribution of two- or three- dimensional products or electronic transmissions. Someone could be designing print work or websites, or someone could design applications or motion work. In this field at UC, you learn all about storytelling and branding. Graphic communication is essential to any business. Communication desingers have career opportunities in advertising, branding and corporate identity, digital product design, exhibit design, interface design, motion graphics and post-production design, package design, service design, user experience design, and web design.

Because of this, communication designers need to understand how various business functions work in order to create better value for their customers. Communication design students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other communication design graduates in the job market. Professional communication designers build careers wherever communication is important. Through entrepreneurship classes, they could have a better understanding of organizations they work in, and may have a better chance at launching successful brands and businesses. Many communication designers do freelance jobs, and gaining skills in entrepreneurship may help them to complete these jobs better. If they wanted to start their own consultancy or help people with their own business goals, skills that may be especially useful include learning how to design a business plan, which incorporates all business functions including accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain. They also may gain important managerial skills that will help them to succeed in any business endeavor. Overall, a communication designer may gain exposure to business relevant materials and skills that may make them more hireable.

A communication design major that studies entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Doing freelance branding for customers who are starting businesses
• Supporting product lines through brand work in large organizations where knowing how the business functions would be beneficial
• Starting a company and knowing who or what functions to hire on to support you
• Learning management skills that will allow you to accelerate through an organization

Economics is a very broad field of study. There are two major fields within economics, that is, Microeconomics, which focuses on the behaviors and decisions of an individual, company, government or any organization about the allocation and distribution of available resources. Whereas, Macroeconomics, is the study of the national economy as whole, for example, not just one company but an entire industry.

A major part of studying economics is making viable decisions based on the data that is available to us. Many a times people confuse economics with only money and the stock market but it also involves topics like banking, investment, health, wealth, and finance.

Applied economics is another area of study within economics that focuses on using the theories of economists to make predictions of how the market and people will behave. This area of study is also known as Econometrics. Econometrics is the quantitative part of economics that uses data to make statistical decisions about public and private issues. Other upcoming areas within the field of economics are: international economics, labor economics, monetary economics, economic development and business economics.

Economics is very broad and therefore it gives us an opportunity to pursue careers in many fields such as law, finance, healthcare, government, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurship, and more.

Taking entrepreneurship courses will help students majoring in economics in many ways. Most importantly, entrepreneurship courses focuses on the start of new ventures, which greatly impacts the business industry. New businesses offer fresh goods and services to the consumers creating more employment, which affects an economy as a whole. It helps generates new wealth, and increases the development opportunity of existing businesses. Along with creating wealth for the economy, entrepreneurship also helps create a social change in a way that provides an improved quality of life. The balance between entrepreneurship and economics plays a vital role for policy makers, business owners, government, institutes, charities, banks and more. It is important to acquire knowledge in both fields for a positive effect on society and the economy.

As an economics student that studies entrepreneurship you can pursue careers:

• As a business analyst to help with the business processes, model, technology, and systems
• As a consultant for a startup, small business, or large corporation
• As a budget analyst for a startup, small business, or large corporation
• Working as a statistician to forecast and predict future sales and market for a startup, small business, or large corporation
• Starting your own venture in economics

E-media gives students hands-on experience in audio, news production, and much more. A person majoring in E-Media can get behind the scenes jobs in film like being a film producer, screen writer, and doing sound and filming. E-media majors can also get jobs in the news industry, either behind the scenes or in front of the camera, or in the music industry as an artist, engineer, record producer, and executive producer.

As a creative person, e-media majors may want to play many roles in their careers. E-Media students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other performing arts graduates in the job market. Taking entrepreneurship classes will help students to learn the skills to promote themselves, like marketing and branding, and to manage people. Someone may want to start his or her own music company and having the skills to write a business plan, which incorporates all business functions including accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, operations, and sales, would be extremely helpful. Through entrepreneurship classes, an e-media student could have a better understanding of organizations they work in, and may have a better chance at accelerating in their organizations. They also may gain important managerial skills that will help them to succeed in any business endeavor. Overall, an e-media student may gain exposure to business relevant materials and skills that may make them more hireable.

An e-media major that studies entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Recognizing opportunities to invest in or start a new business, like a news station
• Managing relationships with clients and other people in a work environment
• Starting a film or audio production company
• Gaining skills to promote oneself or your organization

Engineers play a central role in the innovative processes that result in corporate entrepreneurship and the commercialization of new technologies. Many engineers with innovative new ideas become entrepreneurs and launch their own business(es). Whether you have your sights set on inventing and developing new technologies/products/processes for an established corporation, working as an engineering consultant, or starting your own company, adding entrepreneurship coursework to your engineering degree is invaluable.

Engineers that develop a meaningful understanding of the functions of business and how these functions work together, find greater job satisfaction, are more successful in advocating and implementing their ideas in the business, and advance more quickly to managerial positions. Top companies and job recruiters seek after such candidates for their cross-functional understanding of business.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are specifically designed to help engineering students efficiently develop this important cross-functional understanding as well as managerial decision-making skills.

By studying entrepreneurship, you will be able to develop important skills and experience:

• Designing business plans that incorporate all business functions (e.g., accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain)
• Launching a revenue-generating small business in a classroom environment
• Estimating customer demand and the market potential for your products/services
• Forecasting revenues, expenses, and cashflows
• Assessing the health of companies, business opportunities, and industries
• Managing relationships and consulting to real world clients/customers

By entering your career with these business skills in hand, you will be equipped to assess the business health of prospective employers enabling you to make wise career decisions. You will have the skills necessary to launch a side business to earn extra income and add variety to your career. You will be prepared to successfully plan and run your own engineering or technology company. You will also be better prepared to serve entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. As 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA, there is significant demand for professionals that understand both engineering and entrepreneurship/corporate entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship students often launch companies of their own during their studies or after graduating from UC. There are several in-class opportunities for students to plan and even start their own business before they graduate.

UC students and graduates launch exciting new businesses including healthcare devices, engineering solutions, software, clothing products, IT and management consulting, as well a wide range of services from advertising to tourism, to name just a few.

The field of fashion design teaches a wide variety of skills including patternmaking (making the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before being cut out and assembled), technical drawing (drawings used to convey design ideas and garment details to pattern cutters and machinists), fashion illustration (the communication of fashion that originate with illustration, drawing, and painting), sewing (the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stiches made with a needle and thread), trends (the ability to do research and spot shifts in culture), digital textile design (drawings made through a computer program that are used to convey design ideas and garment details to pattern cutters and machinists), costume design, concept development, and product development.

Fashion designers need to understand how the various functions of business work together in order to better create value for their customers. Through entrepreneurship classes, they could have a better understanding of organizations they work in, and may have a better chance at launching successful lines and businesses. Skills that may be especially useful include learning how to design a business plan, which incorporates all business functions including accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain. They also may gain important managerial skills that will help them to succeed in any business endeavor. Overall, a fashion designer may gain exposure to business relevant materials and skills that may make you more hirable.

Fashion design students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other fashion design graduates in the job market.

Fashion design careers that may be enhanced by a minor in entrepreneurship include:

• Helping companies launch new product lines
• Merchandise manager
• Starting your own boutique
• Finding suppliers that function well within your organization
• Having the ability to work cross-functionally to commercialize viable products

There are a variety of fields within finance including corporate finance (helping businesses to manage debt and equity, futures, foreign currencies, etc.), personal finance (helping individuals to manage their wealth and prepare for retirement), portfolio management (trading and managing portfolios of stocks and bonds), banking (investment, commercial, and retail banking), and entrepreneurial finance (raising of capital for entrepreneurial ventures), to name a few.

In addition to being technically competent in finance, successful corporate finance managers (e.g., CFO, VP Finance) are cross-functional thinkers. They often start out as analysts providing managers with key data and meaningful insights that guide decision-making, and contributing to documentation that informs a mix of stakeholders including employees, investors, government, bankers, suppliers, and others, so they need a well-rounded cross-functional perspective. Personal finance advisors/investment brokers work in highly entrepreneurial settings. They grow their own client list/business by helping individuals manage their wealth (e.g., adjust their stock/bond portfolios) and prepare for retirement. Commercial bankers are responsible to evaluate the loan applications of entrepreneurs and small/medium sized business owners. They need to understand the entrepreneur's vision in order to make prudent decisions on behalf of their bank. Venture capitalists scrutinize business plans, invest in high growth ventures and provide strategic consulting support to these businesses to accelerate their success. They prepare entrepreneurial companies to go public with the help of investment bankers who facilitate initial public offerings (IPO's).

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping finance students develop the cross-functional understanding, entrepreneurial drive, and strategic decision-making skills they need to become the finance professionals of tomorrow. There is substantial demand for financiers that understand entrepreneurs and their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report that 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

As a finance major studying entrepreneurship you can pursue careers:

• Working in small/medium size investment firms
• Helping to manage portfolios of high risk/return entrepreneurial ventures for investment companies (e.g., mutual fund companies)
• Climbing the ranks of commercial banking* in various roles such as analyst, loan officer, branch manager
• Working for venture capital firms* that make investments in high growth potential entrepreneurial businesses
• Building your own businesses as a personal finance advisor* by representing financial products companies to individuals
• Consulting to entrepreneurs (e.g., helping them to prepare financial projections in their business plans)
• Climbing the promotional ladder and becoming VP Finance or CFO of a small/medium sized business
• Launching or joining brand new businesses in finance roles.

The field of industrial design is concerned with the appearance and usefulness of manufactured goods. When creating products, industrial designers think about technical performance, environmental concerns, human comfort, and aesthetics.

Since industrial designers are employed wherever products are produced, they play a central role in the innovative processes that result in corporate entrepreneurship and the commercialization of new technologies. Industrial designers are typically hired as consultants or on the design staff of a corporation and work on projects including automobiles, public transit systems, human-powered and single person vehicles, furniture, appliances, house wares, electronic equipment, tools, toys, packaging, machine tools, medical equipment, business machines and displays.

Whether you have your sights set on inventing and developing new product designs for an established corporation, working as an industrial design consultant, or starting your own company, adding entrepreneurship coursework to your industrial design degree is invaluable.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping industrial design students develop the cross-functional understanding and managerial decision-making skills they need to become the industrial design professionals of tomorrow.

Industrial design students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other industrial design graduates in the job market.

There is substantial demand for industrial designers that understand entrepreneurs and their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

By studying entrepreneurship you will develop important skills and experience:

• Assessing your personal readiness to launch and manage your own business
• Launching a revenue generating small business in a classroom environment
• Estimating customer demand and the potential of a market for your services
• Forecasting revenues, expenses, and cash flows
• Assessing the health of businesses, business opportunities, and industries
• Managing relationships and consulting to real world clients/customers
• Designing new venture plans including all business functions

Industrial management (IM) and operations management (OM) attract technically minded individuals who like to engineer and optimize processes in both manufacturing and service settings. The fields of IM and OM include project, process, supply chain, logistics, and inventory management as well as quality control. IM and OM students go on to take positions as production managers, manufacturing engineers, supply chain managers, process engineers, and project managers.

IM and OM positions facilitate entrepreneurship (e.g., innovation and commercialization) in both new and established businesses. To be competitive, businesses are constantly innovating. No matter their age or stage, they engage in entrepreneurship, which directly impacts their operations. They need project and process managers to create and oversee new processes for the manufacturing/delivery of innovative new products and services. They need manufacturing engineers to adjust manufacturing, supply chain managers to reconfigure the supply chain, and project managers to manage important aspects of new product launches. Companies of all stages and sizes undertaking entrepreneurial activities need bright individuals that understand IM or OM and entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping IM and OM students set themselves apart from other university graduates. In entrepreneurship courses, IM and OM students develop a strong cross-functional understanding of how all areas of business work together to engage in entrepreneurship including new product design, funding, sourcing, manufacturing, sales, and marketing, etc. Equipped with this cross-functional understanding, these students are well equipped to participate in managerial decision-making and to lead innovative companies. Several entrepreneurship courses give students real-world experience developing strategies for managers of businesses in the Cincinnati area. IM and OM students that that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from others in the job market.

Researchers report that 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA. There is substantial demand for IM and OM professionals that understand entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. There is also meaningful demand in larger businesses working to remain competitive by undertaking entrepreneurial activities.

As an IM or OM student studying entrepreneurship you can pursue careers:

• Leading process change in highly innovative and entrepreneurial companies
• Working for operations consulting firms that support small/medium sized businesses
• Contract consulting to entrepreneurs and other businesses (e.g., helping entrepreneurs and family business owners develop manufacturing, supply chain, inventory management, and quality control systems)
• Designing/improving processes for entrepreneurial franchises expanding their operations
• Climbing the promotional ladder and becoming COO or VP of Operations of a small/medium sized business
• Starting/Joining a startup business in an industrial management role.

Information systems includes designing and managing hardware/software networks, safeguarding information security, as well as collecting, processing, and facilitating access to data. Information systems professionals create processes that facilitate communication, transactions (e.g., electronic commerce), and decision-making by managers and personnel throughout the entire business.

All areas of information systems need professionals who understand how the various disciplines or functions in a business work together. In addition to being technically competent, successful IS professionals are cross-functional thinkers who integrate their work into all departments in order to add value across the entire business. They provide managers with access to data and meaningful insights for decision-making, as well as systems to track and improve performance in a variety of ways.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping information systems students develop the cross-functional understanding and managerial decision-making skills they need to become the information systems professionals of tomorrow. Technology entrepreneurship is a rapidly growing area of the economy with many information systems professionals using their programming skills to design new software apps or establish information systems for entrepreneurial ventures. Information systems students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other information systems graduates.

There is substantial demand for information systems professionals that understand entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report that 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

Information systems students studying entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Working for information systems consulting firms that support small/medium sized businesses
• Working in information systems to gain experience for 3-5 years and then starting their own entrepreneurial businesses (e.g., app/software startup companies, information systems consulting firms)
• Contract consulting to entrepreneurs and other businesses (e.g., helping entrepreneurs and family business owners launch and optimize their websites, promote their products/services online, design and manage databases, use hardware/software systems, etc.)
• Creating systems for new/rapidly growing franchises
• Climbing the promotional ladder and becoming CIO or CTO of a small/medium sized business
• Starting/Joining a startup business in a technology role.

Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data. IT at UC has three tracks: Network Infrastructure, Cybersecurity or Software Development. IT majors learn skills like database management (design and administration) and digital media. They also learn software application development for Web, mobile, enterprise and desktop, network and systems administration, including technologies for data centers and storage, and cybersecurity, including forensics, monitoring and penetration testing. Jobs in IT include being a cloud architect, a computer forensic investigator, mobile application developer, web developer, software engineer, and data modeler.

Those in IT have become indispensible for most businesses in this modern day. Because of this, IT people need to understand how various business functions work in order to create better value for their organizations and customers. IT students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other graduates in the job market. Through entrepreneurship classes, they could have a better understanding of organizations they work in. Companies have data that is vital to their business, but they need to it be organized and interpreted in order for it to be useful, which is where an IT student may be very useful. Ranking number 13 on CNN's Best Jobs in America list is being an IT consultant, which everyone from local startups to Fortune 500 companies need in order to run their computers better and faster. If they wanted to start their own consultancy or help people with their own business goals, skills that may be especially useful include learning how to design a business plan, which incorporates all business functions including accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain. They also may gain important managerial skills that will help them to succeed in any business endeavor. Overall, an IT student may gain exposure to business relevant materials and skills that may make them more hireable.

Information technology students studying entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Working for a business as an IT consultant
• Starting an IT consultancy
• Learning how to market and promote yourself as a web or application developer
• IT support specialists can configure, deploy, and support applications within an organization that may benefit organization's functions better if the specialist understand how businesses function

The field of international business includes understanding international cultures, globalization, international trade and transactions (e.g., mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, alliances), international human resource management, international supply chain management and marketing, and global strategic management. International business and entrepreneurship students have a lot in common: they relish new experiences, appreciate diversity, and effectively manage the change and ambiguity that are inherent in new environments.

There is growing demand for students that understand both entrepreneurship and international business. Increasingly companies are "born global;" that is from inception they transact with international suppliers and/or support international customers. Many family businesses and entrepreneurial ventures need skilled employees with the ability to navigate an increasingly global marketplace. Established corporations engaging in entrepreneurial activities (e.g., innovation, venturing into new geographic markets) need professionals that understand both corporate entrepreneurship and international business.

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping international business students develop the cross-functional understanding and managerial decision-making skills they need to become the international business professionals of tomorrow. International business students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other international business graduates in the job market.

As an international business student studying entrepreneurship you can pursue careers in:

• Working for small/medium sized businesses that have international customers/suppliers
• Working in a small/medium or family business to gain experience for 3-5 years and then starting your own international / entrepreneurial businesses
• Working in established companies to support entrepreneurial endeavors (e.g., business development, assessing, selecting, and venturing into foreign markets)
• Consulting to entrepreneurs and/or companies on how to internationalize their businesses
• Starting/Joining a startup business in an international expansion role.

The discipline of marketing involves market research and consumer behavior (studying the preferences of customers), market segmentation (identifying relevant groups of consumers), branding (establishing meaning and value associated with products/services), marketing channels (connecting with consumers), advertising (communicating meaning and value associated with products/services), promotions (highlighting special offers aimed at building awareness, generating revenues), sales (persuading consumers to make purchases), and customer relationship management (maintaining ties with consumers to generate loyalty).

All fields within marketing need professionals who understand how the various functions of business work together (e.g., cross-functional skills). In addition to being technically competent, successful marketing professionals are cross-functional thinkers who integrate their work into all departments in order to create value for customers.

Entrepreneurship courses are helping marketing majors to differentiate themselves through the development of these cross-functional integration skills. These helpful skills are core to entrepreneurship, because all entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs need to integrate all business functions to grow their businesses. Successful managers use these skills every day. Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping marketing students develop the managerial decision-making skills they need to become the marketing managers of tomorrow, by providing opportunities for them to interact with and consultant to managers of businesses in and near Cincinnati. Marketing students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and set themselves apart from other marketing graduates in the job market.

There is substantial demand for marketing professionals that understand entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report that 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

Marketing students who study entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Working in business development (an important marketing function in companies that have aggressive market expansion plans)
• Helping established companies launch innovative new product lines
• Working for marketing consulting firms that support small/medium sized businesses
• Working in marketing to gain experience for 3-5 years and then starting your own entrepreneurial businesses (e.g., boutique market research companies, promotions businesses, marketing consulting firms, advertising companies, among others)
• Contract consulting to entrepreneurs and other businesses (e.g., helping entrepreneurs and family business owners develop their marketing strategies)
• Climbing the promotional ladder and becoming CMO or VP of Marketing of a small/medium sized business
• Starting/Joining a startup business in a strategic marketing role.

Performing arts is a diverse field that includes many possible careers. For the area of dance these include a choreographer, dance instructor, dance therapist, director, fashion model, professional dancer, and stunt performer. In the area of theatre, one can be an actor/actress, arts educator, director, drama coach, drama critic, drama teacher, playwright, producer, prop manager, stage manager, stunt performer. In the musical fields, one can be a technical writer, arranger, choreographer, college instructor, composer, music coach, musical composer, music director, music producer, music teacher, orchestra conductor, professional musician, and technical writer.

As highly creative individuals, performing arts majors often play many roles over the course of their careers. You may choose to perform, train, teach, promote, organize, manage, or mentor other performers. Taking entrepreneurship classes helps many performers learn the skills to promote themselves, manage people, and grow their own businesses. When taking entrepreneurship classes, you can learn to write business plans, which incorporates all business functions (e.g., accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, operations, and sales); gain knowledge of digital entrepreneurship and e-commerce, which can enable you to develop and market online training content; and acquire the skills required to successfully manage and grow your own business. Performing arts students that double major or minor in entrepreneurship get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other performing arts graduates in the job market.

As a performing arts student that studies entrepreneurship you can pursue careers as a:

• Stage manager
• Dance/music academy proprietor
• Partner in a startup production business
• Owner of a local theatre company
• Self-employed performer, instructor, or choreographer
• Independent publisher of instructional videos/software/training materials

The field of real estate includes the buying, selling, and renting of land, commercial properties, residences, etc. Real estate majors join real estate companies (starting as analysts or brokers) or non-profits supporting affordable housing. They work for corporations that own and/or finance real estate, or service companies like brokerage companies, investment banks and trusts, and various consultancies. Many of these roles are highly entrepreneurial. Though real estate professionals may be affiliated with large organizations, they are often expected to create their own businesses within them. They are entrepreneurs and "intrapreneurs".

Entrepreneurship courses at UC are helping real estate students accelerate their career success. The business planning and management techniques, negotiating skills, financial planning, and cross-functional understanding developed in the entrepreneurship minor are highly applicable in many areas of real estate. Planning techniques from entrepreneurship courses help brokers develop personalized strategies for their clients. Analytical skills honed in entrepreneurship help students emerge from UC as game-ready analysts. Management-level consulting experience offered to students through the entrepreneurship program sharpens professionalism and enhances real estate majors' ability to serve as consultants to future clients.

Real estate students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other real estate graduates in the job market. There is substantial demand for real estate professionals that understand entrepreneurs and the needs of their small/medium sized businesses. Researchers report that 90-95% of businesses are small/medium sized and these businesses create nearly 70% of new jobs each year in the USA.

Real estate students who study entrepreneurship may pursue careers:

• Brokering real estate
• Consulting in real estate consulting firms
• Working as real estate analysts
• Managing non-profits (social entrepreneurship) involved in affordable housing
• Starting real estate ventures of their own (e.g., investment, services).

The sciences cover a wide variety of disciplines and are very useful in most businesses. Careers in the biological sciences include research, health care, environmental management and conservation, education, biotechnology, forensic science, politics and policy, science writing and communication. Chemists can have jobs in applied research and product development, cheminformatics, chemical technology, dyes, pigments, and inks, project management, hazardous waste management, quality assurance, formulation chemistry, and process chemistry. Physics careers include accelerator operator, applications engineer, data analyst, professor, lab technician, researcher, space and astronomy, healthcare, and many more.

Those in the sciences have the possibility to be very cross-functional and will like need abilities in entrepreneurship. They may find business opportunities and need the skills to create a business plan, which incorporates all business functions including accounting, finance, human resources, information systems, law, marketing, operations, research and development, sales, and supply chain.

They may also run important projects and need managerial skills. Taking entrepreneurship classes will help if you think you have a patentable idea to know if this is a true opportunity and it will help you to network and create a team.

Sciences students that include entrepreneurship courses among their breadth of knowledge (BOK) elective classes get a well-rounded education and the ability to set themselves apart from other sciences graduates in the job market.

Science students who study entrepreneurship may pursue careers in:

• Industrial management
• Laboratory management
• Technical sales and marketing
• Helping organizations bring innovations to the public
• Taking your IP to start a business
• Working with drug companies and providers of scientific products and services to research and test new products