UNIV 280GSocial Entrepreneurship

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This course examines the practice of identifying, starting and growing successful mission-driven organizations that strive to advance social change through innovative solutions. The course will help students understand some of the strategies that social entrepreneurs employ to create high-impact ventures that address complex societal issues such as poverty, disease, environmental degradation, illiteracy, as well as lack of clean water, sanitation, electricity, healthcare, and access to credit. Through highly experiential, interactive, and collaborative workshops, students will acquire systemic thinking skills, entrepreneurial mindset and other skills and tools to start up their own social venture or work in a social-impact organization.