Program Overview

Minor in Global Entrepreneurship Experience

About

The Global Entrepreneurship Experience (GEE) provides an opportunity for creative, high-achieving students to study entrepreneurship on a global scale through the Lee Business School. The GEE program stimulates creativity and innovation, emphasizes strategic thinking, and promotes leadership and team-building, giving students from any major the tools to become entrepreneurial in their chosen profession. Through an engaging curriculum that combines immersive learning and leadership development, students gain experience crafting unique business models to bring new products and services to world markets. The program highly values multidisciplinary perspectives, interactive learning, co-curricular experiences, and flexibility.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the unique opportunities, challenges, and rewards of entrepreneurship.
• Apply specific techniques for stimulating productive creativity and innovation.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Foster entrepreneurial leadership skills.
• Develop skills required for starting and running an entrepreneurial venture domestically and globally.
• Identify and leverage opportunities in sustainability and social entrepreneurship.
• Create a personal network of faculty, mentors, alumni, business leaders, and students.

Requirements

Global Entrepreneurship Experience Minor

The Global Entrepreneurship Experience (GEE) provides an opportunity for creative, high-achieving students to study entrepreneurship on a global scale through the Lee Business School. The GEE program stimulates creativity and innovation, emphasizes strategic thinking, and promotes leadership and team-building, giving students from any major the tools to become entrepreneurial in their chosen profession. Through an engaging curriculum that combines immersive learning and leadership development, students gain experience crafting unique business models to bring new products and services to world markets. The program highly values multidisciplinary perspectives, interactive learning, co-curricular experiences, and flexibility.

Advising

Please see advising information at the UNLV Lee Business School Student Advising Center.

Accreditation

For information regarding accreditation at UNLV, please head over to Academic Program Accreditations.

University Graduation Requirements

To obtain this minor, you must be a degree-seeking undergraduate student pursuing an approved UNLV bachelor's degree. Please see Graduation Policies for complete information.

Global Entrepreneurship Experience Minor - Total Credits: 18

Minimum B- (2.7) grade required in each course. Minimum 2.75 GPA required for the minor.

Required Courses

• BGES 201 - Entrepreneurial Creativity
• BGES 202 - Innovation and Teams
• BGES 301 - Starting Entrepreneurial Organizations
• BGES 302 - Growing Entrepreneurial Organizations
• BGES 430 - International Entrepreneurship
• BGES 441 - Social Entrepreneurship

Contacts

Lee Business School

The Lee Business School advances the knowledge and practice of business; develops business leaders; and fosters intellectual and economic vitality through the creation and dissemination of knowledge and outreach.