| Course ID: | FCID 3700S. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Social Entrepreneurship in the Arts and Sciences |
Course
Description: | Tenets, models, best practices, and frameworks for social
entrepreneurship and social enterprise; direct work with
community partner agencies and development of social enterprise
plans in support of organizational missions. |
| Oasis Title: | SOCIAL ENTREPR A&S |
| Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course
or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course
objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and
implementation of the project(s) and may spend time outside of
the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning
component for approximately 25-50% of overall instructional
time. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students will develop understanding of social entrepreneurship
tenets, models, best practices and frameworks; will develop and
demonstrate civic and educational skills, dispositions, and
knowledge to apply entrepreneurial solutions to social issues;
will take part in service-learning activities with a community
agency; and will develop a plan to incorporate a sustainable
social enterprise component supporting the mission of a local
community agency. |
| Topical Outline: | Course incorporates site visits, readings, simulations,
reflective activities, and small- and whole-group discussion
sections with presentations from social entrepreneurs, faculty,
and community partners.
Topics include:
•Social entrepreneurship: meanings, models and frameworks
•Tenets, behaviors, skills of successful entrepreneurship;
relationship to Arts and Sciences majors
•Examples of local, regional, national and international social
enterprises
•UGA and community contexts, supports, and challenges for
social entrepreneurship
•Financing options and opportunities; marketing
•Developing ideas into proposals and plans
•Impact, evaluation, sustainability, and growth of social
enterprise
•Site visits and service-learning work with Athens-area non-
profits to understand their missions, clients, activities, and
needs
•Identification, development and delivery of promising ideas |