ECT_ENTREP - Entrepreneurship - Experiential Certificate

The Entrepreneurship Certificate is closely aligned with the Trinity College Innovation Fellowship program, which guides students through experiential learning, coursework, and internships to develop entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets.

Credit 1 (both required)

CCUR 231. Entrepreneur Workshop J-Term (0.50 credit seminar): An immersive workshop about how innovative startup companies create new technologies and jobs, produce value for stakeholders, and change the world. Startup skills and fluency in terminology will be crucial in a wide range of careers in organizations, public or private, domestic, or global. We will study mechanics of startups, motivations and behaviors of startup founders, and major examples of startups, such as Ethereum, AirBNB, Google, and LinkedIn. You will learn and apply lean startup techniques articulated by startup CEO and Stanford Professor Steve Blank. Guest presentations by Trinity’s highly accomplished alumni entrepreneurs. The skills will prepare you to make a positive impact in your career, and provide a head start to those students who plan to create their own startup, or join one.

Internship (0.50 credit): Students will complete a relevant internship(s) that builds on the development of problem-solving, creativity, brainstorming/ideation, and/or user research skills introduced in the J-term course. Internship(s), in coordination with the Career and Life Design Office, must be pre-approved by the certificate faculty adviser.

Credit 2

Internship (1 credit or two 0.50 credit): Continues the development of problem-solving, creativity, brainstorming/ideation, and/or user research skills. Internships, in coordination with the Career and Life Design Office, must be pre-approved by the certificate faculty adviser.

Credit 3 (choose one)

MUSC 275. The Business of Music
THDN 235. Voice
ROME 327. European Union
URST 302. Cities and Migration
URST 319. Affordable Housing Policies
ENGR 201. Engineering Entrepreneurship
CPSC 103. Concept to Prototype

For related opportunities, please see the Innovation Experiential Certificate.

For more information, contact certificate faculty adviser Professor Ewa Syta or Professor Garth Myers.