Social Entrepreneurship is an interdisciplinary and emerging field that offers opportunities to young professionals and students from diverse academic and social backgrounds to create social change on a sustainable basis. This course will examine what is social entrepreneurship, as well as various opportunities and challenges facing social entrepreneurs and various types of organizations they work for. Students will learn about critical social issues locally, nationally and globally by analyzing the structure and operations of nonprofit and social entrepreneurship organizations and comparing their operations with for profit organizations.
This interdisciplinary course will help students from all majors and backgrounds learn how social entrepreneurship can create a better world. For example, nursing and pre-med majors can develop affordable health services, human rights minors will find ways to effectively communicate their mission locally and globally, political science majors learn how to engage with local and national policymakers to enact change, global studies majors can find ways to leverage human and social capital locally on a global scale, and women and gender studies majors can address gender equality and empowerment. This course is important to those who wish to become changemakers in the social sector and for those who want to participate in social change projects in their local community, nationally, or globally.
If you have any questions about the course please contact Dr. Emira Ibrahimpasic (emira@unl.edu).