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20 Credits
Minors must be combined with a Bachelors of Arts program
Estimated costs: $2,760 ($138 per credit hour)
Effective entrepreneurs understand human nature, which allows them to successfully predict behavior and plan accordingly. One of the best and most effective ways of gaining insight into human nature is studying and applying the classics and stellar modern works in the tradition of statesmen-entrepreneurs such as Da Vinci, Gutenberg, Franklin, Carnegie, Edison, Bell, Ford, Farnsworth, Sloan, Disney and Deming.
| Students are not required to minor. Those who do choose to minor must complete the minor requirements in addition to their Statesmanship major. Once completed, minors carry 20 academic credits. Students may complete more than one minor. The four possible minors are Education, Entrepreneurial Business, Literature and Political Science. |
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- Dickens, Oliver Twist
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dickens, Hard Times
- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov*
- Douglas, The Robe
- Drucker, The Effective Executive
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- Flaubert, Madame Bovary
- Franklin, Autobiography
- Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited
- Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Nature
- Jaworski, Synchronicity
- L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
- Lee, The Power Principle
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Naisbitt, Megatrends*
- Novak, The Fire of Invention
- Peck, The Road Less Traveled
- Peter, The Peter Principle
- Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
- Potok, Davita's Harp
- Ries, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- Sanders, Strategic Thinking & the New Science
- Shakespeare, (any plays)
- Sinclair, The Jungle
- Solzhenitsyn, (any books)
- Steinbeck, The Pearl
- Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning*
- Swift, Gulliver's Travels*
- Taylor, The Healing Power of Stories*
- Toffler, Future Shock
- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Twain, Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Connecticut Yankee*
- Walton, Deming Management Method*
- Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Wheatley, Leadership & the New Science
- Other pre-approved works
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MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for the Entrepreneurial Business Minor are as follows:
- Read thirty works from the attached reading list.
- Submit a written response to each.
- Do at least two internships in businesses in their entrepreneurial phase. Submit a paper discussing lessons learned from both.
- Develop a high-quality business plan for which a legitimate investing organization or bank would lend money. Take your plan to an investing firm or bank and refine it until they grant "mock" approval for financing your entrepreneurial venture. Submit their mock approval in writing along with changes and improvements that they helped you make and an explanation of the experience.
A student's grasp of his or her minor will also be tested in the Oral Defense.
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READING LIST
- Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
- Aristotle, Prior Analytics
- Augustine, Confessions
- Austen, Emma
- Austen, Persuasion
- Bennis, Why Leaders Can't Lead
- Blanchard/Johnson, (any books)
- Brown, 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make
- Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Card, Ender's Game
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Cooper, The Deerslayer
- Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership
- Covey, First Things First
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Education Minor | Literature Minor | Political Science Minor
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