Fall 2025, University of Victoria
SENG 480A/BCOM 450
Startup Studio* is a cross-listed course offered jointly by Engineering and Business that brings together senior students from software engineering, computer science and business, to explore and leverage AI to power innovative product ideas. In multidisciplinary teams, students engage in hands-on prototyping, market exploration, customer discovery, and human-centered design to tackle real-world opportunities or challenges, and create value. Throughout the course, teams are guided by world-class founders and industry mentors who bring deep experience in startup development, product design, and emerging technologies. The course aim is for multi-disciplinary teams to create launch-ready startups. Students will gain practical experience with modern AI tools, agile collaboration, and the early stages of startup thinking—leaving with a product demo, a pitch, a lean business canvas, and insights into building responsible and impactful technology.
*Note this course was formerly called Startup Programming - we have renamed the course to
capture the nature of this unique cross-listed Software Engineering course with Business.
See startup-programming.com
for information on previous offerings of this course.
More details on the next offering will be shared here soon.