The Social Good Lab’s Social Entrepreneurship Program combines rigorous coursework, real-world projects, and a distinctive learning culture. Whether you pursue the major, minor, or certificate, you’ll move through a sequence of experiences designed to help you turn values into action.
You’ll launch and lead social ventures that create positive social and environmental change alongside financial sustainability.
You’ll develop tools in venture creation, opportunity recognition, business modeling, funding, and growth—while also building competencies in design thinking, stakeholder management, leadership, and impact measurement. The program develops ethical leaders prepared to catalyze change in nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid organizations across a rapidly evolving impact economy.
CORE COURSES
(4 courses are required for the major)
MGMT 302 FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
MGMT/MKTG 366 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ENTR 376/ECON HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
How to Change the World is a bold, 16-week bootcamp where students develop and launch a real-world project, movement, or thought-leadership platform. Through a blend of weekly modules, peer review, emotional work, and public creation, students confront perfectionism, activate their agency, and learn to produce meaningful work. The course culminates in a live Mini-Summit where students pitch their project to a public audience.
Learn More: https://howtochangetheworld.today/
ENTR 426/ECON FUTURNOMICS
Futurnomics is a course designed to explore and instill the mindsets required to meet the future with optimism, creativity, and opportunity. Grounded in the thought leadership of Peter Diamandis and Dan Sullivan, and inspired by their work in ‘Bold’, Strategic Coach, and the Exponential Wisdom podcast, this course will prepare students to thrive in a rapidly changing, tech-enabled world. Rather than focusing on systems thinking alone, Futurnomics emphasizes personal visioning, exponential awareness, abundance consciousness, and proactive leadership.
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ELECTIVES
(choose 2 for the major, 1 for the minor or certificate)
MGMT/MKTG 351 ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE DESIGN
MGMT/MKTY 356 INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
MKTG 370 ECOTOURISM
MKTG 427 ALLEVIATING FOOD WASTE
