Program Requirement:
The B.A.; Minor Concentration in Social Entrepreneurship is a collaboration of the Faculty of Arts and the Desautels Faculty of Management. The program focuses on an entrepreneurial mindset to see opportunity in the world and provides training in an entrepreneurial method to bring opportunities for change to life. This program takes a democratized approach to entrepreneurship, with exposure to the diverse manifestations of entrepreneurship in the world including but not limited to new ventures, social enterprise, tech start-ups, cooperatives, corporate venturing, side hustles, passion projects, and social activism. The program emphasizes self-directed learning and experiential education. The program includes group projects with live start-ups in the 海角社区 entrepreneurial ecosystem, and exploration of pathways to launch an entrepreneurial initiative.
This Minor Concentration is restricted to students who have completed one year of university studies with a minimum CGPA of 3.0. The Minor Concentration Social Entrepreneurship has limited enrolment; students should contact the Program Director to apply for admission.
Students in this Minor Concentration are not permitted to take the Joint Honours Economics/Finance, Joint Honours Economics/Accounting or Desautels Minors in Management, Marketing, Finance, or Operations Management (for Non-Management Students).
Required Courses (9 credits)
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INTG 215
EntrpshpEssntlsforN-MgmtStudts
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Integrated Management: Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key
components of starting and managing a business.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 non-Management students. Not open to students in the Desautels Faculty of Management.
- Limited enrolment; priority registration for students in Minors in Entrepreneurship. Note: this course is not part of the Desautels Minor in Management for Non-Management students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Aviva Aronovitch
- Aviva Aronovitch
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MGPO 362
Fundls of Entrepreneurship
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Policy: Study of the key aspects involved in starting and managing a new venture: identifying opportunities and analyzing new venture ideas, identifying common causes of failure and strategies for success, understanding intellectual property systems, comparison of multiple modes of funding. Applies to for-profit and not-for-profit start-ups.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite(s): INTG 201 or INTG 202 or MGCR 211 or MGCR 352.
- Restriction(s): Only open to U2, U3 students.
- Limited enrolment; priority registration to Management students and non-Management students in Minors in Entrepreneurship.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Kwangjun An
- Aviva Aronovitch
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MGPO 438
Social Entrepreneur&Innovation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Policy: Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation 鈥� the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Paola Perez-Aleman, Rohini Jalan
- Niels Billou
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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MGCR 211
Intro to Financial Accounting
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee, Yin Zhu
- Yongoh Roh, Yin Zhu
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MGCR 222
Intro to Org Behaviour
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Individual motivation and communication style; group dynamics as related to problem solving and decision making, leadership style, work structuring and the larger environment. Interdependence of individual, group and organization task and structure.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Amandine Ody, Simon Blanchette, Sarah Gordon
- Diana Dakhlallah, Roman Galperin, Jeraul Mackey, Sylvia Miriyam Findlay
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MGCR 331
Information Technology Mgmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Introduction to principles and concepts of information systems in organizations. Topics include information technology, transaction processing systems, decision support systems, database and systems development. Students are required to have background preparation on basic micro computer skills including spreadsheet and word-processing.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
- Malleswara Talla, Najib Mozahem, Sol Tanguay, Matthew Goodman
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MGCR 341
Introduction to Finance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.
Offered by: Management
- Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Vadim di Pietro
- Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
- Vadim di Pietro
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MGCR 352
Principles of Marketing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Hamid Etemad, Fabienne Cyrius, Aviva Aronovitch, Simon Blanchette
- Clarice Zhao, Bruce Dor茅
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MGCR 372
Operations Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Design, planning, establishment, control, and improvement of the activities/processes that create a firm's final products and/or services. The interaction of operations with other business areas will also be discussed. Topics include forecasting, product and process design, waiting lines, capacity planning,
inventory management and total quality management.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
- Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 472.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Yichuan Daniel Ding, Maxime Cohen
- Rob Glew, Bing Bai, Alys Liang
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MGCR 382
International Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
- Donald Melville, Ghahhar Zavosh
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MGCR 423
Strategic Management
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: An integrative and interdisciplinary introduction to strategy formation and execution. Concepts, tools, and practical application to understand how firms leverage resources and capabilities to gain competitive advantage in dynamic, contemporary industries. Strategic positioning, organizational design, and managerial action for the long-term success of businesses and positive social and ecological outcomes.
Offered by: Management
- Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Liliya Lyubman, Ghahhar Zavosh, Mitali Banerjee
- Robert David, Karl J Moore, Kwangjun An, Nils Emil Anton Andersson
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MGCR 460
Social Context of Business
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Core: Examination of how business interacts with the larger society. Exploration of the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Examination of these issues
with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Offered by: Management
- Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Herv茅 Robert Horner, Gina G Page, Anicet A Fangwa Nantcho
- Herv茅 Robert Horner, Lindsay Holmgren, Simon Altmejd, Gina G Page
3 - 6 credits from the following:
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MGPO 364
Entrepreneurship in Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Management Policy: Provides hands-on experience with the development of an entrepreneurial venture or a contribution to an existing entrepreneurial venture. Involves the creation of a venture development or business plan. Applicable to many kinds of new ventures, both private companies and social enterprises.
Offered by: Management
- Prerequisite: MGPO 362
- Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only.
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SENT 499
Intern:Social Entrepreneurship
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Social Entrepreneurship: The Social Entrepreneurship internship allows students to earn university credits while gaining experience working in areas relevant to the Minor Concentration in Social Entrepreneurship. Internships consist of a minimum of 150 hours of work with an approved host institution or organization.
Offered by: Arts - Dean's Office
- Prior to taking SENT 499, all students must get permission from the Minor Concentration in Social Entrepreneurship Program Director. Registration note: For summer internships, students register for this course in the following fall semester.
- Restriction(s): Only open to students in the B.A.; Minor Concentration in Social Entrepreneurship
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
0 - 3 credits from the following:
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COMS 355
Media Governance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Communication Studies: Electronic communications systems such as broadcasting, cable, telephony, and the Internet are vital public resources for social, economic, political, and cultural interaction in modern life. This course introduces students to the political and economic forces that govern policies about the flow of information, knowledge, and ideas using such media systems.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Prerequisites: Successful completion of COMS 210, COMS 200, or COMS 230.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken COMS 365.
- Note: Combined lecture and seminar format. Language of instruction is English. Maximum enrolment is 90.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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COMS 492
Power, Difference and Justice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Communication Studies: Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
Offered by: Art History & Communications
- Prerequisites: One of the following 200-level courses: COMS 200, COMS 210, COMS 230 AND one of the following 300-level courses: COMS 300, COMS 310, COMS 320, COMS 330, COMS 340, COMS 350, COMS 354, COMS 361, COMS 362 or permission of the instructor.
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ECON 310
Intro to Behavioural Economics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Economics (Arts): An introduction to economic decision-making in markets and strategic environments, including bounded rationality, individual decision-making under uncertainty, and behavioural game theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and a statistics course or permission of the instructor.
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ECON 447
Economics of Info&Uncertainty
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Economics (Arts): This course considers how uncertainty can be incorporated into the standard model of consumer and producer choice central to explaining or analysing a number of different economic phenomena. Topics include the information approach to explaining unemployment and problems in controlling health care costs.
Offered by: Economics
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HIST 312
Hist of Consumption in Canada
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
History: History of consumption in Canada since 1600 in relation to subsistence and the early market; modern class and gender relationships; conceptions of citizenship.
Offered by: History and Classical Studies
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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LLCU 212
Understanding Dig&Social Media
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Languages, Literatures&Culture: Lectures will explore a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Tutorials will help students to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web (HTML, images, audio, video).
Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures
- Students need a laptop computer.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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PHIL 237
Contemporary Moral Issues
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Philosophy: An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia.
Offered by: Philosophy
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POLI 318
Comparative Local Government
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Political Science: An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: POLI 212 or POLI 227, or written permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Also in the field of Canadian Politics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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POLI 473
Democracy and the Market
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Political Science: The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Offered by: Political Science
- Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The field is Comparative Politics.
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SOCI 307
Globalization
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Sociology (Arts): Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.
Offered by: Sociology
- Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor
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SOCI 386
Contemporary Social Movements
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Sociology (Arts): This course will focus on contemporary social movements in Canada, the U.S., and Western Europe, such as the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the environmental movement. Empirical studies of movements will be used to explore such general issues as how social movements emerge, grow, and decline.
Offered by: Sociology
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year