MARKETPLACES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Communication & Literacy Comm QR - Communication B Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts of social scientific analysis Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand the history of marketplaces, and more recently, of farmers markets, how they developed Audience: Undergraduate 3. Evaluate their relationship to trends in economic development, food justice, and political regionalism Audience: Undergraduate 4. Distinguish and judge the various legal and social practices and processes that unfold in establishing markets and market entrepreneurs/farmers, as well as distinguishing descriptive from normative concerns Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe how markets relate to bioregionalism, places, and place making Audience: Undergraduate 6. Understand and apply basic knowledge of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and community economic development, as well as how these embody normative concerns and bioregional/placemaking interests Audience: Undergraduate 7. Apply knowledge from the course in executing research on markets and vendors in order to contribute to an existing market in Wisconsin or elsewhere Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts of social scientific analysis Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand the history of marketplaces, and more recently, of farmers markets, how they developed Audience: Undergraduate 3. Evaluate their relationship to trends in economic development, food justice, and political regionalism Audience: Undergraduate 4. Distinguish and judge the various legal and social practices and processes that unfold in establishing markets and market entrepreneurs/farmers, as well as distinguishing descriptive from normative concerns Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe how markets relate to bioregionalism, places, and place making Audience: Undergraduate 6. Understand and apply basic knowledge of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and community economic development, as well as how these embody normative concerns and bioregional/placemaking interests Audience: Undergraduate 7. Apply knowledge from the course in executing research on markets and vendors in order to contribute to an existing market in Wisconsin or elsewhere Audience: Undergraduate