Innovating Sustainability: Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Dr. Laura DeLuca听
3 credit hours
Discover your calling. Make an impact. Create community. Accelerate your career options. Start the journey.
In this class, through lecture, 鈥渓ab鈥� and film clips, you will learn about how to research societies鈥� problems and create innovative solutions through forming a venture. You will gain understanding of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and how to contribute to solving our society鈥檚 biggest problems.
You will acquire skill in how to 鈥減itch鈥� which means how to tell a meaningful story about your venture in succinct way. You will learn to use business principles to organize, create and manage an enterprise to achieve social change.
Social Innovation is a vehicle for understanding and creating social change. Most of today鈥檚 innovative social solutions cut across the boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses. 听You will learn 听about the triple bottom line (planet, people, profit) how to create a mission, vision, board and much more.
You will gain fluency in design thinking which involves interviewing and incorporating the insights from your customer or end user.听听Through your Social Innovation Project (SIP) you will gain proficiency in story telling听听(persuasive communication), and innovation skills.听
Arts and Sciences GenEd:听Social Sciences 听
