Direct experience in the process of entrepreneurship is a key component of the minor. The required internship is designed to provide that type of experience.

Students enrolled in the minor typically complete their internships during the summer before their senior years after completing Introduction to Entrepreneurship (ECON 325) and a venture creation course in commercial, social, scientific or artistic entrepreneurship.

The internship director works with students and employers to identify and secure internship placements.

Requirements

Student interns must:

• Complete 320 hours of work. Missed hours of work must be made up. Specific dates and times of internship are negotiated with the internship supervisor.
• Maintain frequent contact with the internship director during the course of the internship.
• Write weekly entries in a journal or blog over the course of the internship. Students will use their journal or blog entries as field notes when they write their final papers for ECON 328, taken during the semester following the internship.
• Attend internship meetings that are called by the minor in entrepreneurship program during the summer and offered in the intern's geographic location.
• Complete and sign a Learning Contract that reflects the terms above and any additional terms and conditions imposed by the intern supervisor and approved by the director of the minor.
• Complete and sign the Statement of Risk Allocation and Waiver of Liability document, provided by the internship director.
• Register for and attend the meeting of ECON 328 in the semester following the internship experience.

Interns' behavior reflects on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the minor in entrepreneurship. Interns are expected to conduct themselves according to the highest standard of business and personal ethics and abide by local laws and customs.

Is your internship entrepreneurial?

• What contact will you have with the founder of the enterprise?
  
  
• What new opportunity has presented itself to the enterprise that will have any impact on your internship?

• In what ways will you be able to participate in the enterprise’s strategic planning

• What opportunities to innovate are available within the enterprise

ECON 328 Requirements

Interns are eligible to receive three hours of academic credit for their internship as a result of participation in ECON 328 in the semester following their internship.

ECON 328 requires that students:

• Submit a one-page mid-internship report to the internship director.
• Submit a written journal or blog of their internship experiences.
• Submit a final project in the form of a written case study.

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