SEI 101 Social Entrepreneurship: Past, Present and Future
3 hours
This course explores how social entrepreneurship - the application of entrepreneurial business skills to the creation of an enterprise to implement solutions to social, cultural, or economic challenges—has grown into a global movement that is producing solutions to many of the world’s toughest problems and transforming the way we think about social change. The course introduces students to social entrepreneurship’s past, present, and future, emphasizing its longstanding roots in under-served communities throughout the United States. By providing the tools for organizing anti-poverty action and mobilizing civil society, this approach teaches students how to think like social innovators and how to get involved in this growing movement.
Notes
This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Learning from the Past area of the Gen Ed Program.