Social Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Socially Responsible Enterprise

Social Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Socially Responsible Enterprise is a crosslisted Interdisciplinary Arts/Lemelson Program class taught by Colin Twitchell.

Course Description
This course will give participants an introduction to social entrepreneurship and be focused on enterprise creation. Through readings, case studies and other activities this 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. The latter part of the course will largely be devoted to the creation of a social enterprise concept plan and pitch for your enterprise. Participants in this course will be expected to actively research relevant social entrepreneurial material and share it with others in the course. Art and disability will be prominent perspectives though which the course will view social entrepreneurship. Students must have taken IA/LM 181 as a prerequisite or get instructor permission.