Program Requirements
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 McGill 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 Entrepreneurship Essentials for Non-Management Students (3 credits)
Overview
INTG : Fundamental concepts, theories, and practices of entrepreneurship. Focus on identifying opportunities, developing business ideas, and understanding key components of starting and managing a business.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Aronovitch, Aviva (Fall) Aronovitch, Aviva (Winter)
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.
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MGPO 362 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: An, Kwangjun (Fall) Aronovitch, Aviva (Winter)
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – 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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Perez-Aleman, Paola; Jalan, Rohini (Fall) Billou, Niels (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from the following:
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MGCR 211 Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Zhang, Jingjing; Lee, Dongyoung; Zhu, Yin (Fall) Roh, Yongoh; Zhu, Yin (Winter)
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MGCR 222 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Gordon, Sarah; Ody, Amandine; Blanchette, Simon (Fall) Mackey, Jeraul; Dakhlallah, Diana; Galperin, Roman; Findlay, Sylvia Miriyam (Winter)
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MGCR 331 Information Technology Management
(3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Tanguay, Sol; Goodman, Matthew (Fall) Tanguay, Sol; Goodman, Matthew; Mozahem, Najib; Talla, Malleswara (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
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MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: di Pietro, Vadim (Fall) De Motta, Adolfo; di Pietro, Vadim (Winter) di Pietro, Vadim (Summer)
Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
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MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Etemad, Hamid; Aronovitch, Aviva; Cyrius, Fabienne; Blanchette, Simon (Fall) Doré, Bruce; Zhao, Clarice (Winter)
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MGCR 372 Operations
Management.
(3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Ding, Yichuan Daniel; Cohen, Maxime (Fall) Bai, Bing; Glew, Rob; Liang, Alys (Winter)
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MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Melville, Donald; Zavosh, Ghahhar (Fall) Melville, Donald; Zavosh, Ghahhar (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to U0 students.
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MGCR 423 Strategic Management (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Banerjee, Mitali; Zavosh, Ghahhar; Lyubman, Liliya (Fall) David, Robert; An, Kwangjun; Moore, Karl; Andersson, Nils Emil Anton (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGCR 460 Social Context of Business.
(3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Fangwa Nantcho, Anicet; Page, Gina; Horner, Hervé Robert (Fall) Holmgren, Lindsay; Page, Gina; Horner, Hervé Robert; Altmejd, Simon (Winter)
Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGCR 360.
3 - 6 credits from the following:
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MGPO 364 Entrepreneurship in Practice (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Billou, Niels (Fall) Lee, Jared (Winter)
Prerequisite: MGPO 362
Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only.
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SENT 499 Internship: Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Overview
SENT : 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.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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
0 - 3 credits from the following:
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COMS 355 Media Governance (3 credits)
Overview
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.
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)
Overview
Communication Studies : Media systems and their role in social relations of power and difference that are maintained and challenged through communication practices.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Lloyd, Mark (Fall)
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ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Xue, Licun (Winter)
Prerequisites: ECON 208 and a statistics course or permission of the instructor.
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ECON 447 Economics of Information and Uncertainty (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Karaguesian, Julian (Winter)
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HIST 312 History of Consumption in Canada (3 credits)
Overview
History : History of consumption in Canada since 1600 in relation to subsistence and the early market; modern class and gender relationships; conceptions of citizenship.
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 Digital and Social Media (3 credits)
Overview
LLCU : 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).
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.
Students need a laptop computer.
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PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 credits)
Overview
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.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Bisson, Keven (Winter)
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government (3 credits)
Overview
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.
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)
Overview
Political Science : The relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Szendro, Brendan (Winter)
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)
Overview
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.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Filkobski, Ina (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor
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SOCI 386 Contemporary Social Movements (3 credits)
Overview
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.
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.
