EXP 455 - INET CAPSTONE

Undergraduate Education

Credit(s): 3

EXP 455 is designed as the required capstone course to earn the interdisciplinary Certificate in Entrepreneurship Studies at the University of Kentucky. It is aimed at providing students with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired as part of the courses they have completed in entrepreneurship as well as provide experiences for students to focus on innovative processes that require entrepreneurial thinking. The course is based upon the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program and Stanford’s Lean Launch Pad developed by Steve Blank. Students get out of the building, build a company, and test hypotheses related to the nine building blocks of the Business Model Canvas as they complete a capstone project that draws on prior entrepreneurial course work. The experience culminates in a formal business plan and pitch. The course requires students to apply their critical thinking skills as they synthesize previous course work and extend and develop their own original ideas in entrepreneurial thinking. By integrating their knowledge and skills, students will also demonstrate that they possess them.

Prereq: COM 381 and consent of instructor.