Innovation and Creativity

Catalog description

An outcome-based course in which participants learn to recognize, analyze, and support the key determinants of individual and group creativity and innovation within a social venture context. Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds—from working conditions and education to community development and health—and that extend and strengthen civil society. By examining theoretical models and contemporary articles and cases on innovation within a social entrepreneurship framework, the course seeks to help students develop creative business options for organizing and implementing solutions to difficult problems facing the world. This course begins the social and general entrepreneurship major and concentration sequence. P: Completion of at least 45 hours of college credit.