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BUSI 4117

Creative Thinking

1.0 credit · Undergraduate

Increases student skills in areas beyond technical expertise, with a focus on the importance of fluidity, risk taking, and idea generation. Emphasis on creativity as a process, with exposure to various techniques and concepts including Design Thinking at multiple levels (individual, group, organization).

2026

Topics

  • Community Co-Creation & The Creative Process
  • Design Thinking & Human Centered Design Project Funding #1 - Set up
  • Problem Identification and Teambuilding Assign #1 - Basecamp Set up
  • Social Entrepreneurship & the Theory of Change Assign #3 - Project website set
  • Paradigms, Biases, & Empathy (Research for design) Assign #4 - Problem Statement
  • Building Your Creative Toolkit #2: Tools for Ideation
  • Funding prototypes and marketing your project
  • Pitching your Creative Project Project Pitch #1 (2%)
  • Building a Business Plan Project Funding #2 – Funding
  • Prototype, Prototype, Prototype Grant Application Part 1 (7%)
  • Work week & Trip Planning Weekly meeting reports #1 (5%)
  • Creative Problem Solving: Convergent/Divergent Thinking
  • How to Critique Creative Solutions Project Pitch #2 (2%)
  • Creative Confidence and Barriers to Creative Thinking
  • Systems Thinking & Measuring Social Impact Grant Application Part 2 (5%)

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for BUSI 3117B taken prior to 2020/21. Prerequisite(s): third-year standing, and BUSI 2101 or BUSI 2702 (with a grade of C- or higher in each), and permission of the Sprott School of Business. Lecture three hours a week.

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