Minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This minor is available to students registered in a 120-credit hour undergraduate program within the following Faculties: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Computer Science, Science and Agriculture who have room in their degree requirements for the required credit hours.  Courses cannot normally be double counted for both a Minor and a Major. Please consult your Faculty.

The requirements are:

• MGMT 2902.03 Innovation Management: A Design Thinking Approach
• MGMT 3907.03 / COMM 3907.03: New Venture Creation
• MGMT 4901.03 / COMM 4901.03 Applied Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• 9 credit hours from a list of approved elective courses (see below)

Students will have the opportunity to select their 3 electives from a list provided by the Faculties of Agriculture, Arts and Social Sciences, Computer Science, Management, and Science. The list of electives is divided into three clusters: Leadership, In Context, and Experiential. Students will select one elective from each cluster. 

Approved elective options from each faculty and cluster are below. Please note:

• Students are responsible for satisfying all pre-requisite requirements for electives.
• Provided students can fulfill the necessary pre-requisite requirements, they can select electives from any Faculty’s approved list.

Leadership:

Faculty of Agriculture

• EXTE 3001 Leadership Development and Social Change
• MGTA 2000 Human Resources Management
• MGTA 2009 Customer Relations Management
• MGTA 2012 Leadership and Human Resources
• CMMT 3000 Human Communication and Conflict Resolution

Faculty of Computer Science 

• CSCI 2690 Intro. to Software Projects

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 

• ASSC 3150: Intercultural Communication

Faculty of Management

• MGMT 3309 Management Skills Development
• COMM 3310 Reflections on Leadership
• MGMT 3320 Organizational Theory
• COMM 3303 Human Resource Management
• MGMT 4333 Project Management
• MGMT 3308 Managing the Family Enterprise
• MGMT 2805 Intro to Indigenous Governance

Faculty of Science

• ENVS 3502 Environmental Problem solving II: The campus as a living laboratory
• SCIE 4444 Leadership in Science

In Context:

Faculty of Agriculture

• AGRI 5780 Agriculture, Food and Well Being
• MGTA 3010 Agribusiness Value Chain Management
• MGTA 4006 Issues in Agribusiness Stability
• RURS 3000 Rural Community Economic Development
• ECOA 3002 Agricultural & Food Policy
• ENVA 4006 Air, Climate, and Climate Change
• ECOA 3008 Environmental Economics
• APSC 3020 Energy Production and Utilization
• FOOD 4005 Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
• FOOD 3002 Impact of Food on Health
• ENVA 3000 Environmental Impact
• ENVA 4005 Geographic Information System
• ANSC 2005 Animal Agriculture
• AQUA 2000 Introduction to Aquaculture
• ANSC 3005 Animal Welfare
• ANSC 2004 Organic Livestock Production
• MGTA 3011 Marketing Research
• MGTA 3009 Financial Management
• MGTA 3002 Consumer Behavior

Faculty of Computer Science

• CSCI 2133: Rapid Programming Techniques for Innovation
• CSCI 2170: Server Side Scripting
• CSCI 4176: Mobile Computing
• CSCI 4168: Game Design and Development
• CSCI 3172: Web Centric Computing
• CSCI 4145: Cloud Computing
• CSCI 4126: Ubiquitous Computing

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

• CSCI 2203: Data Science for Everyone
• CANA 2001: The Idea of Canada: Social and Political Perspectives
• CANA 2002: The Idea of Canada: Cultural and Literary Perspectives

Faculty of Management 

• MGMT 2200 Fundamentals of the Legal Environment of Management
• MGMT 3511 Information Systems for Managers
• COMM 3401 Consumer Behaviour
• COMM 3402 Marketing Communications
• COMM 3404 Marketing Research
• COMM 3409 Sales Management
• COMM 3410 Service Marketing
• COMM 4501 Business Analytics for Decision-Making
• MGMT 3601 Information in a Networked World
• MGMT 3603 Beyond Google
• MGMT 3802 Public Policy
• MGMT 3810 Government Policy Toward Business

Faculty of Science

• BIOC 4501 Medical Biotechnology
• CHEM 4601 Drug Molecule Design
• ECON 2213 Emerging Giants: Economic Rise of China and India
• ECON 2216 Economics of Global Warming
• ECON 2218 Canadian Economy:  Policy Issues
• ECON 2334 Perspectives on Development
• ECON 2326 Money and Banking
• ECON 2336 Regional Development
• ECON/PHYC 2850 The Science and Economics of Climate Change
• ECON 3319 Industrial organization
• ECON 3333 Theories of economic development
• ECON 3335 Environmental economics
• ECON 3800 Financial economics
• ENVS 2410/ERTH 2410 Environmental Issues in Earth Sciences
• ENVS 2310/PHYC 2310 Energy and the Environment
• ENVS 3200 Introduction to Environmental Law
• ENVS 4004 Pathways to sustainable energy
• MATH 2300 Mathematical Modelling

Experiential:

Faculty of Agriculture 

• MGTA 4001 Advanced Entrepreneurship
• MGTA 2013 Business Planning
• FOOD 4001 Food Quality & Safety
• HORT 3001 Landscape Project Management
• HORT 2008 Residential Landscape Design and Construction
• LARC 4001 Landscape Architecture Studio I
• LARC 4002 Landscape Architecture Studio II

Faculty of Computer Science

• CSCI 4193: Technology Innovation
• CSCI 4691: Advanced Project
• CSCI 2691: Introductory Project
• CSCI 3691: Intermediate Project
• CSCI 3190: Community Outreach
• CSCI 3191: Community Outreach II

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

• CRWR 2001: The Creative Process
• INTD 3107: Experiential Learning Canada
• INTD 3019: Experiential Learning Abroad

Faculty of Management

• MGMT 3701 The Community as a Living Lab
• SUST 3502 The Campus as a Living Lab
• COMM 4510 Corporate Communications
• MGMT 3902 Starting Lean

Faculty of Science

• CHEM 3203 Advanced Analytical Laboratory
• ECON 2211 Economics of Innovation
• ENVS 3502 Environmental Problem solving II: The campus as a living laboratory
• PHYC 3180 Contemporary Physics
• SCIE 4701 Science and Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship I
• SCIE 4702 Science and Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship II