Environmental Entrepreneurship

Catalog description

Students gain an understanding of key problems, root causes, and potential entrepreneurial solutions relevant to selected contemporary environmental challenges. Students apply interdisciplinary perspectives to identify, analyze, and evaluate environmental issues, measure impacts, and establish criteria for effective remedies. The course reviews key environmental challenges within selected areas (with topical themes chosen from contemporary issues in environment, health & well being, education, economic development, and other timely topics.) as well as fundamentals of social entrepreneurship to enable students to design and present enterprise development models for market-based social ventures seeking to deliver such remedies. Students learn how to pitch venture proposals to address criteria evaluating efficacy, feasibility, sustainability, and potential “return on investment” for both financial and social/environmental impacts.