Shuford Entrepreneurship Track of Honors London
Spring 2025 Dates
January 5 – April 26, 2025
Faculty Director
Jed Simmons, Minor in Entrepreneurship
Jed Simmons is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence and Professor of the Practice in the Shuford Minor in Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additionally, he is a Guest Professor of the Practice in Duke University’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship program. He is the 2016 Carolina Chiron Award winner at UNC.
Highlights
The Honors Semester in London is based at UNC’s Winston House in historic Bedford Square.
Complete your minor in entrepreneurship in one semester while participating in an internship with an innovative organization. This program combines virtual communities of UNC students taking classes while sharing their experiences in entrepreneurial internships in a variety of industries.
Students start by taking a two-week intensive boot camp alongside the Shuford NYC cohort with Jed Simmons prior to joining the rest of the Honors London students on January 18. All participants remain enrolled at UNC earning 15 hours of UNC graded credit through the following courses.
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.
ECON 327H: London Loves
(3 credit hours, satisfies Minor track requirement)
Instructors: Jed Simmons (Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship) and local faculty/entrepreneurs
This class provides a unique and exciting look at entrepreneurship and innovation in London and a number of the industries that help make London such a special City. London has become one of the centers of Finance, Flowers, Fashion, Retail, Food, Drinks, Art, Sport, Creativity, Tourism, Venture Capital, Web 3.0, Media, and Baking! The class will take a deep dive into a number of these industries through the lens of site visits, guests, Cases, readings, videos, and experiences. We will call Winston House home, but we will be all over London visiting venues, stadiums, accelerators, creative spaces, offices, and a private garden. The class will celebrate London’s innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, as well as Britannia’s personality. We call it London Loves.
ECON 393H: Practicum in Entrepreneurship (Internship)
(5 credit hours, satisfies Minor Internship and Practicum requirements)
Instructor: Jed Simmons, taught remotely while students live and work in London
ECON 393H is the capstone to your entrepreneurship minor. The class is intended to provide a bridge from the classroom content and experience to your internship to provide a bridge from the classroom content and experience to your internship and the ecosystem around you. The course is build taround the journeys of expeirenced entrpreneurs and your internship. The goal is to allow you to consider their lessons and insights as you work through your internship and consider the journey ahead.
ECON 393H enables students to intern in an entrepreneurial venture and connect with their peers to learn about other organizations and the choices they make to devlop and grow their businesses.
HNRS 378: The London Experience
(1 credit hour)
The London Experience is a guided journey through London and UK cultural and historic sites. All students are required to take this course during their semester to ensure they are getting an immersive and enriched cultural experience while abroad.
Elective Seminar of Your Choice
(3 credit hours)
Instructor: Winston House faculty, taught in-person in London
Students on the Shuford Honors Seminar in Entrepreneurship track in London are enrolled in the courses listed above in addition to another London-based seminar alongside the Honors London Classic Track cohort at the Winston House. View the list of seminars here.
Please note that while ECON 125 is a prerequisite for the Shuford Away Program, students must still take ECON 101 or 111 at UNC to complete all of the requirements for the minor.
