SCI 230Global Aspects of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Units
- 0.50
- Faculty
- Science
- Subject
- Science
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
This concentrated 18-day block course features a combination of academic study, group work, and field trips in Southern Ontario and Israel. The course focuses on cultural exchange and experiential learning on technological scientific innovation and entrepreneurship where students will interact with companies with a global impact. Students will examine different approaches to transforming scientific innovations into useful products.
Prerequisites
- Students must be in level 2A or higher
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
5 posts and comments in 4 threads mention SCI 230, June 2019 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2024
To whoever vandalized the MC mens washroom infront of CnD: 154 points, 86 comments
“Did you really think writing all over the washroom stalls, counters, mirrors would be the best option for you to raise awareness for Palestine? Why the mens washroom of all places?”
u/Accomplished_Low9761: “im gonna be honest it was probably someone against the movement tryna make people look bad, its happened before on other campuses”
u/Accomplished_Low9761: “… who have an active role in the genocide currently happening; there’s a course called SCI 230 which quite literally is a propaganda fest under the guise of field research”
u/chocolate_doenitz: “I am unfamiliar with SCI 230, but I have done a lot of research into Waterloos connection with the university in Israel. What the protestors in Waterloo claim makes us “complicit in genocide” was a research project to better protect bulldozers from IEDs and RPGs. …”
Winter 2023
Apartheid in PD 8 17 points, 10 comments
u/guitardesk: “this reminds me of the fact that there is a uni trip where people get a credit for going into an apartheid state in the science faculty!! …”
u/guitardesk: “SCI230”
Winter 2021
Can anyone recommend me non-math faculty bird courses to take this Spring? 8 points, 15 comments
“Need a couple of easy courses for this spring. Preferably low workload and easy marks. Have to be non-math faculty courses to meet my requirements.”
u/jokerwithnojokes: “HRM 200 , CLAS 104 , SCI 206”
u/Significant-Ad-7752: “For me, except for SCI 230 and SCI 238, there's no other SCI course available for the Spring term :(”
Spring 2019
Travel to Israel (SCI 230....) 6 points, 60 comments
u/nccll: “Has anyone travel for a course (like a short summer exchange), coop, or anything school related? This is my first time travelling for this type of thing and I don't know how much to expect, more, or less. …”
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