This is without a doubt one of the stupidest classes I have ever taken at this school. Professor Gayle is very smart and knowledgable and one of the nicest professors on campus. She is also successful and ran her own consulting firm so she is actually very interesting! Our TA Melissa was a royal pain with her arbitrary grading. We had weekly reflections and by the name of it you would think that it is easy but no, they want you to summarize EVERY single one of the 50+ page readings in the 2 page span and if you go over you would loose points. Melissa would never give a 10/10 and would always give stupid 8.5s and 9s with no feedback. The readings that were assigned were beyond idiotic as is all the readings in the Entrepreneurship minor. Everything you learn in this class and in this minor is common sense. For instance, we were assigned a 60 page plus called on “Tackling Heropreneurship” by Daniela Papi-Thornton.

I am sure if you are able to read this review, you can put two and two together and understand that Heropreneurship literally means being an entrepreneur who's work creates good in the world. But noooo, lets assign a 60 page redundant reading and waste all of the students time. There is absolutely NO REASON for professor to assign a 60 page reading on something that can be explained in a SENTENCE. Go look up the reading yourself if you do not believe me. All of the readings and material that were assigned are COMMON SENSE, you have to be an absolute idiot to think that any of these readings, which are made by unsuccessful loser entrepreneurs, have any value whatsoever. All of the readings just take common sense as well as common business practices and slap some sort of convoluted-buzz-word label on them.

Don't even get me started on the gorup projects, every entrepreneurship class has them and its a complete crapshoot. You get paired up with complete airheads and have to carry the project all by yourself. Anyone who believes in communism has clearly never been in a group project.

Overall I must say, this is not bad for a Entrepreneurship minor class and is one of the better ones.

If I could go back I would drop this pointless minor and spend my time pursuing entrepreneurship instead of wasting my time learning about common sense. Even tho prof gayle was a successful entrepreneur, you can bet that the rest of the people who teach the MGMT classes are washed up teachers who are bitter that the market chewed them up and now they resort to teaching crap since they were never successful actually being an entrepreneur.

No idea how someone can enroll in this class and find it interesting in the slightest. You have to be a complete retard to look at this or any of the other MGMT classes and find any sort of value in them.

Class was annoying but overall do-able.

The class was good, Gayle is super nice and generally a great person. I also like that she has her own business because she has real world expertise. The class was also pretty easy with minimal time commitment. I will say the class is 3 hours long, 1x per week, which is kind of a drag, its so long. But overall I recommend it; I gained a lot of insight into social entrepreneurship and the professor is very understanding.

This class is definitely an easy one, the only hard part is showing up to a 3 hour lecture. The weekly reflections are graded harsh and you'll never get a 10 but overall the coursework is simple. A weekly reflection (200-400words), and an ongoing group project which you start working on immediately and have deliverables for every few weeks and ultimately present it at the end (no final). Professor Northrop is really cool, she has an interesting background and Im not exactly one to care much about things like this, I took it for an easy A.

For people who have taken MGMT classes before, this class is similar in workload and style (weekly readings and quizzes, midterm, and final project). For those who have not taken any MGMT classes, this course may seem like a lot of work, however it is totally worth it!

She brings in a guest speaker every week that shares their experience in the nonprofit world, some of which are pretty high up, and all of which are pretty interesting. You have weekly reading quizzes that test the big picture ideas in the readings. The midterm was actually challenging so make sure you understand how to apply the information they've given you to that point. The final project gets done in increments, as sections of it are due as assignments, so by the end you have a pretty clear picture on how to create your presentation.

You get to choose your group, but you're asked to form your group based on the topics you are interested in. They can be strict on using laptops so bring a notepad just to be safe. Lastly, make sure you participate-- this is a huge portion of your grade.

With that said, I am very happy I took this class. I had never given the nonprofit sector much thought but Gayle really widened my perspective and helped me realize how much opportunity there is within it. I have never had a professor like Gayle before, she is so inspiring and tries to really make you aware of the nonprofit sector in ways that most people aren't aware. It was a really rewarding class and I liked that it was so different than the other MGMT courses available.