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Academic Programs

Want to earn course credit while developing your entrepreneurial skills? Learn about leading edge academic programs that offer hands-on learning opportunities.

Experience Entrepreneurial Thinking in the Classroom

Many students may not have the time to engage in extracurricular experiences to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and skills. These academic options available at the University of Calgary offer transformative learning opportunities that students can engage in while working towards their degree requirements.

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Embedded Certificate in Entrepreneurial Thinking

This academic certificate provides undergraduate students from degree paths across the UCalgary campus with an entrepreneurial thinking toolkit. Students will work towards the certificate by simply taking courses that meet prerequisite requirements.

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Entrepreneurship & Innovation Option for Graduate Students

This option features two courses that provide graduate students from any faculty with hands-on experience to discover opportunities, determine their feasibility, and build strong business models to transform their ideas into fully developed ventures.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Courses at Haskayne

Entrepreneurship is best learned through doing, so courses in this area offer hands-on experiences through projects that expose students to all aspects of business development. Most courses are open to any interested undergraduate students.

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Minor in Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (MEED)

This minor for engineering students includes five entrepreneurship and innovation courses including introduction to business venturing, principles of entrepreneurship, opportunity identification, new venture start-ups and more.

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