New Product Development Certificate

Certificate Requirements

The certificate requires the completion 10 credits to satisfy three categories of requirements. The certificate is open to ALL undergraduate students.

ENTR 156 - From Ideas to Action (1cr.)

Entrepreneurial Skill Building

One of the following:

New Product Development and Practicum

Select a new product development domain and fulfill its requirements by completing one background knowledge course and one practicum course (six credits):

New Food Products Domain:

New Agricultural Goods and Services Domain:

One of the following:
AGRI 100 - Organic and Sustainable Farming (3cr.)
ANFS 206 - Farm to Table (3cr.)
PLSC 206 - Farm to Table (3cr.)
Choose one of the following Practicums*:
ENTR 364 - Entrepreneurship in Practice: Internship (3cr.)
ENTR 455 - Startup Experience I (3cr.)
ENTR 458 - App Development for New Technology (3cr.)
LARC 364 - Landscape Architecture Internship (1 to 6cr.)
MEEG 409 - Prototype to Product (3cr.)

Note:

There is no set list of courses for the “new agricultural goods and services” practicum. Rather, any course that focuses on providing students with a meaningful opportunity to gain first-hand experience in attempting to develop a viable new agricultural product may be used to satisfy this requirement.

To seek approval for a specific practicum, students will be required to submit a request in writing to the certificate’s faculty director. The request should indicate the course being proposed to satisfy the requirement and address how the course activities/project(s) can be expected to satisfy the criterion noted above (i.e., provide a meaningful opportunity…).