Entrepreneurship

Issued by UC Davis Division of Continuing and Professional Education

The badge holder completed the UC Davis Student Startup Center Certificate in Entrepreneurship and developed skills to pursue a venture as an entrepreneur or to apply an entrepreneurial mindset as an employee. Program activities focused on building products and companies. Courses were designed and selected to move undergraduate students beyond theoretical reasoning into the practical experience of building, tinkering, experimenting, and rebuilding with hands-on application of lessons learned.

Type Learning
Level Intermediate
Time Months
Cost Free

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

Completion with a passing grade of: (1) Introduction to Entrepreneurship (ENG 008): Critical entrepreneurial topics to start a business. Students work with frameworks for getting started including the Business Model Canvas and Design Thinking. (2) Launching a Company (ENG 108): Hands-on overview of innovation and product development. Students in teams work through the Lean Startup Method to iterate a solution, perform customer discovery and develop a minimally viable product prototype.
Completion with a passing grade of six additional elective credits (typically 2-3 courses). Three of these credits MUST come from upper-division coursework. Courses must come from one or more of the following topic areas: design (engineering focus), design (other focus), technology, leadership and management, ethics, communication, intellectual property. The Student Startup Center maintains a list of pre-approved electives at: https://startup.ucdavis.edu/curriculum/#toggle-id-3.
Students complete a practical experience focused on building their own venture by doing any of the following: Completing the UC Davis SSC PLASMA cohort experience; Competing in the “UC Davis Big Bang!” Business Competition finals; or Completing the Eng 98 Startup Speaker Series Course AND one of: Competing in the “UC Davis Big Bang!” Business Competition early rounds; Competing in the “UC Davis Little Bang!” Poster Competition; Completing a pre-approved internship at an early-stage startup.