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SVENT 225PSocial Entrepreneurship: Exploring Social Change

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Last listed
Spring 2022

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2022 and last ran in Spring 2021. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. F20
  3. W21
  4. S21

Ran in 4 terms, Winter 2020 to Spring 2021.

This is a live-in experiential learning course at St. Paul's GreenHouse. Students will explore the entrepreneurial journey with an emphasis on the process of identifying a pressing problem, validating the problem and generating ideas to tackle the problem. Students will also engage in work to help them identify their own values and goals for affecting change, develop teamwork and collaboration skills and begin envisioning their own social venture or change initiative. [Note: student must enrol and be accepted in the live-in GreenHouse Community at St. Paul's University College]

Requirements, as last listed

Antireq: ENBUS 403A/B

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  • Svent 225 is a great class to take as a student, led by instructor Brendan Wylie-Toal. Brendan will constructively challenge you to think big picture and apply the lessons learned throughout the course into your life moving forward. Additionally if you are thinking of pursuing a startup and do not have the time to commit large hours to a startup due to course restraints ( which was the case for me as a premed student), this is a great way to get a course credit while pursuing your social venture and learning a great deal as well. For me as an aspiring Physician, Brendan emphasized how the learning I achieved throughout this course will benefit me and better prepare me in the long term.…

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