This course explores social enterprises and social innovations that generate jobs, provide employment for Oregon’s vulnerable populations and help alleviate poverty. The interdisciplinary course will be designed for graduate students: business, public administration, urban studies, engineering, and environmental sciences. Read more about Oregon Social Enterprise and Innovation Practicum
This intensive “bootcamp”-like course is designed for graduate students, recent grads and practitioners interested in launching a social enterprise. Created in concert with a leading Indian Management Institute in Hyderabad, SE Startup School fosters interaction, collaboration and a joint discovery process between participants from the US and India though simulations, competitions, debates, assignments and field work. Read more about Social Enterprise Startup School
This introductory course surveys a range of social innovations and enterprise models employed to address social problems in East Africa as well as financing methods and policy issues.
Appropriate for upper level undergrads and graduate students from liberal arts and social sciences, this international field study is aimed at giving students broad practical knowledge of social entrepreneurship. Read more about Social Entrepreneurship: An “underview” from the ground
This course for upper level undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciplines examines social enterprise approaches to sustainability—from food systems to city planning to natural resource management—taking hold across the Pacific Northwest, a hotbed of social enterprises working to create a sustainable future. Read more about Social Enterprise and Sustainability
Social Enterprise in India is a rigorous MBA course for graduate students to learn essential elements of employing business principles and market-based approaches for good. Offered in collaboration with PSU School of Business.
