Certificate in Entrepreneurship

Covenant has a strong history of graduating entrepreneurs. Undoubtedly that is a testament to our strong liberal arts core (fostering broad-based curiosity) and our strong Reformed underpinnings (fostering provocation and making “all things new”). Both of these behavioral tendencies (curiosity and provocation) are central to entrepreneurial endeavor. In short, entrepreneurs are risk-taking profit makers driven by their curiosities to find untapped needs in the marketplace and to provoke others to come alongside them (as investors, employees, suppliers, etc.) to meet the untapped need. The College is missionally well suited to equip students with such leanings. And the city of Chattanooga has emerged as an “alternate Silicon Valley” - https://www.inc.com/jeff-barrett/how-chattanooga-attracted-gary-vaynerchuk-steve-case-2-billion-in-startup-exits.html. The time is indeed ripe for the College to launch this certificate program.

Program Components: the course of study is designed to provide foundational knowledge/skills related to the strategy, management, marketing, and financing of entrepreneurial enterprises, while complimenting that foundation with tangential knowledge/skills related to creativity, innovation, and inclusiveness. Contact the program coordinator: Leda Goodman.

Required Courses

ART 425 Brand Design 3 hour(s). (waive prerequisite courses)
BUS 250 Principles of Management 3 hour(s).
BUS 335 Entrepreneurship 3 hour(s). *
BUS 360 Management Lessons from Literature and Film 3 hour(s).
CDV 300 Living and Working in a Multicultural Context 3 hour(s).
MKT 300 Principles of Marketing 3 hour(s).
* BUS 335 is the certificate program capstone course, and all of the above courses will serve as prerequisites. Students in BUS 335 must have senior standing.

In addition to the prescribed course of study students will be required to participate in the Praxis Academy (https://academy.praxislabs.org/) intensive residency in the summer between their Junior and Senior years, as well as enter the College’s Seed Project competition (https://www.covenant.edu/students/resources/career/seedproject) during their senior year.