Academics
Shuford Honors Semester in Entrepreneurship in New York
Students earn 15 hours of UNC graded credit through the following four courses:
ECON 325H: Entrepreneurship: Principles, Concepts, Frameworks and Fluency
(3 credit hours, satisfies Minor requirement)
Instructor: Jed Simmons, taught in-person in Downtown Durham
ECON 325H, a two-week intensive course of study offered at the beginning of the seminar, will provide a granular approach to the most important tasks required to create a new enterprise. The course will meet for more than four hours a day at American Underground in Durham.
After bootcamp, students will have the opportunity to have continued conversation with their London peers remotely on a few occasions.
Bard College Course: Business Venturing Workshop – Exploring Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Transfers back to UNC as ECON 327H
(3 credit hours, satisfies Minor track requirement)
Instructor: Jed Simmons
This class will look at innovation and entrepreneurship in leading (e.g. New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles), emerging (e.g. Austin, Detroit, RTP, Boulder), and developing (e.g. New Orleans, Birmingham, Charleston, Columbus) startup communities. The class will explore what makes these ecosystems thrive. We will learn about and experience some of the companies, products, and technologies that have emerged from these hubs. We will meet founders, leaders, investors, governments, and companies – as we learn more about how companies were built, developed, pivoted, and thrived (or did not).
Bard College Course: The Future of Work
Transfers back to UNC as ECON 393H
(4 credit hours, satisfies Minor Internship and Practicum requirements)
Instructor: Bard College Faculty
The Future of Work is structured around core readings on work which are accompanied by weekly discussions on student internship experiences. These discussions connect the readings with the conditions students face at their temporary workplace using both more traditional and experiential learning methods. Students are asked to read pertinent articles about work (both in general and also in their field of study) and identify the ways readings are a good approximation of what they face in practice.
Students will write a short piece about their internship expectations in the beginning of the class and keep a running diary of their experiences. At the end of the course, students are asked to both present their internship experience and write a short reflection on what they were able to achieve and the challenges they faced. These end-of-course reflections will come naturally to students as they will be engaged in thoughtful class discussions both with their instructors and their peers throughout the semester. By the course, students will be better equipped to make informed decisions about their future and their work plans.
Elective of Your Choice
Review Bard NYC courses here.
(4 credit hours)
Instructor: Bard College faculty
Bard NYC courses emphasize interdisciplinary study and incorporate practical, career-focused skills into the classroom. Many courses touch on New York City and take advantage of the incomparable resources available to students in one of the world’s great metropolises. From world-famous museums and art collections; libraries and archives; Broadway theaters and symphony orchestras to the United Nations, Wall Street, and the city’s diverse patchwork of neighborhoods, New York City is a laboratory for students to learn both in and from.
ECON 327H and ECON 393H will be transfer credit from Bard College.
If you want to participate as a senior, you must delay graduation until August.
