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Winter 2020 Course Spotlight: APS1015H Social Entrepreneurship

Submitted on Tuesday, November 19, 2019

If you are interested, please read these steps carefully. To enroll in this engineering course, students must:

  1. Complete the SGS course add form, and obtain course instructor signature
  2. Then, request signature from home grad admin i.e. Faculty of Information – include course description/rationale statement (as always)
  3. Signed forms will be returned back to student. Students can then email their forms to d.duong@utoronto.ca to open up a spot for them.
  4. Return final approved form back to iSchool (inquire.ischool@utoronto.ca)

Course description:

APS1015H: Social Entrepreneurship It is strongly recommended that students who are interested in the course attend the first lecture including waitlist students. WINTER 2020: Jan 09 – April 02, Thursdays, 3-6pm in BA2145

APS1015H: Social Entrepreneurship

APS1015H Syllabus

Alex Kjorven

This course is designed for engineering students interested in starting a business venture that advances social and/or environmental good. The course provides students with as real a “social entrepreneurship” experience as is possible within a course setting – students will, independently or in groups, construct a Business Model for their entrepreneurial idea, and will pitch their model to a panel of Angel investors. Most lectures will run workshop-style: industry experts (in social marketing, social finance, HR, law and other fields), along with real social entrepreneurs, will work one-on-one with students to help refine their business models in preparation for the investment pitch. Other lectures, along with course readings, will focus on understanding the field of social entrepreneurship, with a particular emphasis on topics relevant to engineering such as clean tech commercialization and the growing field of “impact investing”

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