What will you do in 2014? Ah, it\u2019s such a common question as one year ends and another begins.<\/p>\n
If you want to do something different with your class schedule in spring 2014, check out our introductory \u201cEntrepreneurial Mindset and Innovation\u201d course. The course is highly interactive and hands on; you won\u2019t see a professor lecturing in front of the room for two hours. For a big chunk of each class, students work in teams on an entrepreneurial project throughout the semester. Also, a successful entrepreneur visits each class to have a dialogue with students about how to develop the mindset of an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the crazy creativity bootcamp, which is part of the course:<\/p>\n
The course is a great fit for students of any major. In fall 2013, majors represented in the course ranged from Anthropology and Math to Fine Arts Studio and Psychology. The only pre-requisite is freshman English.<\/p>\n
Creativity is a major theme of the course, and students learn how to apply an innovative mindset to whatever they pursue: starting a business or nonprofit, or standing out as an entrepreneurial employee inside a company. With every industry changing so rapidly, employers want to hire people who can think creatively and be innovative; this course can show you how to be that employee.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time in a long time, I am actually taking what I learned from a course and applying it in real life,\u201d said one student in the fall 2013 class.<\/p>\n
\u201cEntrepreneurial Mindset and Innovation\u201d can also help you learn how to launch your own venture someday, whether it’s opening a dance studio, commercializing that app idea, running a tutoring business, turning your design concept into the next must-have gadget, or creating a social service nonprofit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s totally different than anything that Montclair offers … it really challenges your way of thinking,\u201d <\/em>is how another student summed up the course.<\/em><\/p>\n