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COURSE DESCRIPTION & SOME GENERAL INFORMATION
Instructor:
Colin Twitchell e-mail: cstLM@hampshire.edu Ph. 559-5705
TA’s:
Ashleigh Gorman e-mail: aslg04@hampshire.edu
Aaron E-J e-mail: azintirea@gmail.com
Witt Wisebram e-mail: witt@wonderroot.org
Meeting Times:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm
Location:
Lemelson Center Classroom # 113
Course Description:
This course will give participants an introduction to social entrepreneurship
and be focused on enterprise creation. Through readings and case studies
the course will start by exploring what social entrepreneurship is
and the impact that it has on society. From this exploration we will
go on to investigate how social enterprises are created and the types
of organizational structures that constitute them, such as non profit,
green business, non profit- profit hybrids, etc. With this background
knowledge, participants in the course will create their own social
enterprise concept plan. Participants in this course will be expected
to actively research relevant social entrepreneurial material and share
it with others in the course. The latter part of the course will largely
be devoted to the creation of a social enterprise concept plan. Guest
speakers through out the course will help participants gain deeper
insights into the meaning and practice of social entrepreneurship.
Art and disability will be prominent perspectives though which the
course will view social entrepreneurship. Key questions the course
will consider are: What is social Entrepreneurship? What role does
social entrepreneurship play in our society? What are the types of
social enterprise structures? How does one go about creating a social
enterprise? |