| Course ID: | BUSN 7830S. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Social Innovation Community Leadership – Service Learning Projects |
Course
Description: | How to scope and manage a meaningful, business-related service leadership project for a local nonprofit community organization using MBA skillsets. The projects are designed to impact areas critical to the greater Athens community, situated in any of the following areas: education, health and well-being, arts and culture, economic development, and policy. |
| Oasis Title: | Social Innov Leadership Projct |
| 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. The course uses service-learning as the primary pedagogical tool for teaching course objectives. Students will work on a comprehensive project(s) and may be required to send considerable time outside the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 75-100% of overall instructional time. |
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| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course is to explore and apply broader applications of MBA skillsets to advance community-based projects to move the needle on an initiative critical to the partnering organization and the community at large. |
| Topical Outline: | There will be opportunities to build your experience and skillset in the following areas: building community partner relationships; authentic, professional communications, timing, and content; applying an MBA skillset more broadly beyond a pure business context; building an engaged, empowered, and impactful project team; project management tools; building consensus with community partners whose expertise likely varies from your own; anticipating and managing change; and giving and receiving productive feedback (within teams and with community partners). |