ENTREP 395: Social Impact
Quarter Offered
Spring
Prerequisites
None.
Description
What problems do you see shaping your future? Climate change, economic inequality, AI, the future of food and work? Would you like to have a say in what happens next? Join us to design the change you want to see.
In this course, you won't study problems from a comfortable distance. You'll pick a problem you actually care about and begin designing a venture to address it. Along the way, you'll learn how entrepreneurship, storytelling, business strategy, community engagement, and financial modeling come together to drive social impact, and you'll discover that doing good and doing well aren't opposites. Building something that matters benefits you, your community, and the people whose lives you set out to change.
You'll wrestle with the questions every changemaker has to answer: Why does this problem still exist, and who is most affected? How can an entrepreneurial mindset spark systems-level change? And what methods, business models, and habits of mind make impact sustainable enough to last?
Every week, you’ll apply what you learn through rapid experiments, real feedback, and practical tools.
By the end of the course, you’ll know how to turn your passion into a powerful force for change.
Faculty
Course Details
Requirements that this course satisfies: Serves as experiential core requirement for the Farley undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship as well as the experiential requirement for the Farley graduate minor in entrepreneurship.
Duration: 80-minute course sessions, twice per week; 1 quarter
Class size: 30 students
Course numbers: ENTREP 395
Who Should Enroll: Any undergraduate or graduate student interested in expanding their knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation, specifically in the areas of social impact.
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