To enable students from multiple universities to work together, this course is delivered virtually. Students will be provided with all the virtual teamwork and collaboration tools they will require for the course. (There will also be the opportunity for students to engage with other enrolled students from their own university.)

To maximize the availability of this course, multiple sections will be offered for the Winter Term of 2023, each with a different schedule for the three weekly synchronous hours. However, depending on how many students enroll in these sections, some sections may not run. Each enrolled student will be in one (and only one) section for the entire term. Please note that you will be asked in your application to identify all of the sections that you would be able to attend:

• Option 1 – Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30pm to 7:00pm Eastern Time

• Option 2 – Mondays & Wednesdays 7:30pm to 9:00pm Eastern Time

• Option 3 – Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30pm to 7:00pm Eastern Time

• Option 4 – Tuesdays 12:30pm to 3:30pm Eastern Time

If your application indicates that you are only available for sections that do not reach minimum enrollment, you will not be offered enrollment in the course. Please indicate as many sections as you are able to attend in your application.

Students should expect to spend an average of between eight to ten (8-10) hours per week on this course across the term (including synchronous course sessions). This course involves three (3) hours of highly-interactive synchronous sessions every week. Full attendance at all of these sessions is expected and required.

The goal is to form teams of four with each student from a different institution. Students from McMaster Engineering will not be placed on the same team.

The course is led by the ‘How to Change the World’ Teaching Team. This team consists of members from across the world with the founding members originating from University College London in the United Kingdom.

Each participating institution puts forward a co-instructor to assist with administrative and logistical tasks related to the delivery of the course.

Twenty-five spots have been reserved for McMaster Engineering.

Applications will be considered on a first-come-first-served basis, with the evaluation criteria focusing on students’ short statements of interest in the course. However, priority will also be given to ensuring multifaceted diversity – across disciplines and levels of study – within the course. Once the course reaches capacity, students will be put on a waitlist for available spots.

ENGINEER 3CW3 is an approved Engineering complementary studies elective.

All of McMaster University’s policies apply to students enrolled in ENGINEER 3CW3. For more information on MSAFs, please review the associated policies linked here.

Applications will close on November 30th, 2022. Students will be offered enrolment on a rolling basis shortly thereafter, with the first batch of students given up to two weeks to complete enrolment on MOSAIC before their spots are given to other applicants. Students will be notified by January 6th, 2023 of the results.

Addressing sustainability in our society poses interdisciplinary challenges that require interdisciplinary solutions. Sustainability is frequently taught in silos within individual Faculties, and most often within individual and isolated courses.

The goal of the Sustainability Minor is to alter this pedagogy and teach sustainability both within and across Faculties. The Minor will provide a path for students to study diverse aspects of sustainability from different disciplines and integrate them into a cohesive whole.

The primary responsibility for the governance of the Minor will be held by the Interdisciplinary Minor in Sustainability Committee comprised of an interdisciplinary group of faculty and administrators from the Faculties of Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, Social Sciences, and the Arts & Science Program. The Arts & Science Program will host the Minor by managing administrative obligations such as the submission of curricular revisions. Responsibility for advising students rests with the student’s home Faculty.

Read more about the Interdisciplinary Sustainability Minor or contact asp@mcmaster.ca.

Students who are interested in business, but also want to take the Society program, have the ability to use their focus electives toward a minor in business.

Read more about the Business Minor on the current undergraduate calendar.

The minor in innovation is a partnership between the Faculty of Engineering and the DeGroote School of Business and is intended for students from all Faculties who wish to learn more about innovation and develop a level of innovation literacy, as well as those who are themselves innovators and wish to develop skills to create their own enterprise. To meet these varied needs, the minor includes a wide range of courses in innovation which may be taken as standalone courses or as part of the minor.

Read more about the Innovation Minor on the current undergraduate calendar.

Some other popular minors include:

– Minor in Astronomy
– Minor in Economics
– Minor in Geography
– Minor in Philosophy
– Minor in Statistics

See all the minors offered at McMaster on the current undergraduate calendar.