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Department of Management
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CIP: 52.01
311. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP (3). Examination of the factors that support the
development and growth of sustainable ventures to generate economic, social, and
environmental change, including understanding the social value proposition, sustainable
business models, and management practices related to resource acquisition, organization,
and performance management frameworks. PRQ: Junior or senior standing, or consent of
department.
Rationale: Social entrepreneurship applies entrepreneurship principles in order to create, organize, and
manage ventures to make social change. An emerging field of study in undergraduate and graduate
business programs, the social entrepreneurship area is a response to the need for the development of
sustainable and economically sound organizations to address societal needs.
In this course, students will develop and apply entrepreneurial principles to identifying need for economic,
social, and environmental change, creating opportunities to solve societal problems, developing
sustainable business models, understanding and exploiting financial structures to support the venture, and
organizing to grow the venture. This course will help students develop the entrepreneurial skills related to
the unique features of building and sustaining ventures to generate economic, social, and environmental
change. In addition, students will develop a unique perspective on the corporate social responsibility
initiatives of private companies.
This course has been offered as a special topics course, and the department would like to offer it on a
regular basis.
Duplication check: Departments that have been contacted with regard to duplication of content:
Sociology and Political Science. Both departments reported there is no issue with duplication.
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CIP: 52.01
411. ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATIONS (3). Study of
the purposes, management, and effects of microfinance organizations. Topics to be
covered include a review of current status of microfinance organizations, clients,
management and operational issues, evaluation of different microfinance organizations
and models, and sustainability. PRQ: MGMT 311 or consent of department.
Rationale: In this course, the application of entrepreneurship and management principles in microfinance
organizations in order to help eradicate poverty by creating jobs, stimulate small businesses, and
strengthen communities among the poor will be studied. Microfinance organizations provide access to
financial services to those living in poverty who are not served by traditional financial institutions, such as
commercial banks. Having access to financial services such as microloans allows entrepreneurs in
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developing countries to start, or continue to operate, an income-generating business in order to lift
themselves from poverty. The number of microfinance organizations is growing rapidly in a response to the
need for sustainable and credible organizations to address societal issues such as poverty, gender equality,
health, and education.
In this course, students will develop and apply knowledge and skills related to microfinance lending
models, beginning and growing small business enterprises in the developing world, empowering women to
become entrepreneurs, group lending, profitability and sustainability of the microfinance organization.
This course will also help students develop a unique set of skills related to the building of successful
entrepreneurial ventures to serve the “bottom of the pyramid.”
This course has been offered as a special topics course, and the department would like to offer it on a
regular basis.
Duplication check: Departments that have been contacted with regard to duplication of content:
N/A