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Courses in which themes of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship are incorporated specifically and substantively:

BSAD 352: Social Entrepreneurship Students learn about concepts, practices and evaluative criteria relating to social entrepreneurship and how social entrepreneurship contributes to social change. Students are introduced to global variations in conceptualizations of social enterprise, including both northern and southern perspectives and the impact of context on the strategies and processes used in pursuing social purpose. In the 2020-21 year, students co-constructed a private social enterprise ‘board’ in Pintrest and completed comparative analysis of several selected enterprises.

BSAD 453: Entrepreneurial Finance As personal networks give way to professional, larger, institutional sources of financing, systemic barriers grow accordingly, and so this course introduces students to variety of financing options available at different stages of development of a new venture and addresses the particular challenges of accessibility and prevalence of gender/race/sexual orientation barriers.

BSAD 458: New Venture Development This course allows students to develop and bring to fruition their own entrepreneurial idea through a process of business planning and modelling. Sustainable development goals are addressed specifically as part of the brainstorming process, prompting students to consider how a business idea might address an SDG, and the integration of positive impact within the business / new venture is required. In the 2020-21 year, one project team developed the circular economy aspect of a new product; by converting a waste product into a new product, they were able to redirect waste and realize a reduced environmental impact.