Impact Innovation Courses

These courses are taught in a modular fashion. Although the following modules are taught sequentially, students will continually revisit modules given the iterative nature of innovation. As well, although there is an expected amount of time to be spent on each module, the instructor may modify this schedule based upon the needs and desires of the students. There no grades for these courses. Students receive a Certificate of Completion upon satisfactory completion of the reflections included in each module and their team presentation. Students also receive a letter of recommendation.

Impact Entrepreneurship: Design Your Impact

During this hands-on, dynamic course, students work in teams to design impact innovations. The goal is to learn how to design entrepreneurial solutions that address a social, economic and environmental problems that the students choose to prioritize. By the end of the course, students will have enhanced their impact innovation mindsets and skill sets while gaining valuable skills in collaborative problem solving, creative thinking, global citizenship, presenting innovations, translating information into insights and more.

The SDG's Putting Innovation In Action

During this dynamic course, students learn about and leverage practical innovations addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).
Students use video mini-cases of grassroots work from around the world that address select SDG's as a means to learn high-impact innovation strategies and practical tools for innovation + entrepreneurship. By the end of the course, students will have enhanced their impact innovation mindsets and skill sets while gaining valuable skills in collaborative problem solving, creative thinking, global citizenship, translating information into insights and more. Students will also have become part of a new community and made
new friends.