Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economics

BUS

476

Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economics

This is a study abroad course in which students will understand the unique nature, challenges, resources, and opportunities that affect social ventures in developing economies. Students will earn first-hand the very different environmental conditions under which people live and work in a different part of the world, as well as experience the spirit of social entrepreneurs who find innovative ways to solve social problems within a market economy. Through class meetings, discussions with social entrepreneurs, and on-site visits to different social ventures in India, students will experience both the structural as well as the motivational factors that need to be considered to address these social problems. This class will encourage students to reflect on the social problems that exist in the United States and consider how the innovative organizational models that they have been exposed to in this study abroad program can be applied to the problems.

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Undergraduate

No

013557