SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Learn how to create a socially-engaged businesses and how to use entrepreneurial approaches to non-profit ventures. Activities include developing mission statements, assessing social impact, seeking funding from varied sources. Guest lecturers, cases, role playing. Grounded in management theory.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define social entrepreneurship Audience: Undergraduate 2. Articulate elements of effective mission statements Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of businesses and nonprofit organizations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of assessing social impact Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify basic forms of financing available to social-purpose organizations Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define social entrepreneurship Audience: Undergraduate 2. Articulate elements of effective mission statements Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of businesses and nonprofit organizations Audience: Undergraduate 4. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of assessing social impact Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify basic forms of financing available to social-purpose organizations Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027