ENTR-225 Social Entrepreneurship
This course is designed to introduce students to social entrepreneurship. A social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to achieve social change. The social entrepreneur focuses on creating social capital. The primary goal of social entrepreneurship is to further social and environmental causes. Social entrepreneurs are most commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors, but this need not preclude making a profit. Course topics include the manner in which both business and entrepreneurial principles apply to social entrepreneurship and the process for the development of new products or services that contribute to the solution of a social problem. This course provides the knowledge of fundamental business concepts and tools to build a social venture. The course will focus on one broad social problem each semester and students will learn to set up a business relevant to finding a solution to that social problem.