Minor Entrepreneurship for Science Students

(18 credits)

This Minor is a collaboration of the Faculty of Science and Desautels Faculty of Management and is designed to provide Science (B.Sc.) students with an understanding of how to conceptualize, develop, and manage successful new ventures - including for-profit private companies, social enterprises, and cooperatives as well as intrapreneurship initiatives. The program covers the essentials of management and is interdisciplinary and integrative. Many courses in the Minor will address a mix of students from across multiple McGill faculties.

Students in this Minor are not permitted to take the Desautels Minors in Management, Marketing, Finance or Operations Management (for Non-Management students).

To obtain the Minor, all courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.

Advising note: Desautels Faculty of Management courses in this Minor have limited enrolment and include INTG 201, INTG 202, MGPO 362, MGPO 364, MGPO 438, and BUSA 465. For advising regarding Management courses, students should contact the Desautels Faculty of Management, B.Com. Office (see coordinates in the calendar notes). For advising regarding MIMM 387, see your adviser in the Science Office for Undergraduate Student Advising (SOUSA) in Dawson Hall.

Required Courses (12 credits)

INTG 201 Integrated Management Essentials 1 (3 credits)

INTG 202 Integrated Management Essentials 2 (3 credits)

MGPO 362 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

MGPO 364 Entrepreneurship in Practice (3 credits)

Complementary Courses (12 credits)

Choose 6 credits from the following:

BUSA 465 Technological Entrepreneurship (3 credits)

MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)

MIMM 387 The Business of Science (3 credits)