Do you want to learn the steps you need to take to become a social entrepreneur? Are you considering working in a social enterprise or in a third sector organisation (charity, NGOs)? The Social Enterprise Module is a unique opportunity offered to students at the 黑料社 to identify a social challenge and develop a social venture. Whilst you learn how to set up your social enterprise, you will also learn about social impact and its measurement.
How does it work?
'Social Enterprise' is an interactive module that provides students with the theoretical and practical tools to design a social venture. Social entrepreneurship has emerged in the last decades as the process by which citizens take an active role in tackling social challenges through enterprise development. Some of the social issues that social entrepreneurship has addressed are related to poverty alleviation, widening educational participation, access to health care and promoting common good more broadly.
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Identify a social challenge
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Develop a social venture
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Design the measurement of social impact
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Communicate effectively in both oral (group presentations) and written form (reports)
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Develop leadership and collaborative work skills
-聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pitch ideas persuasively to classmates, lecturers and external stakeholders
Find out more here .
The Social Enterprise Module is offered to undergraduate students from across the University who are eligible to opt for curriculum innovation modules. This module runs during Semester 1 each academic year. Check with your Student Office whether you can take this module within your programme of study.
Student Testimonial
鈥淭he Social Enterprise module provided project based learning tackling United Nation聽Sustainable Development Goals. Equally, the module discussed theory, underpinned the social enterprise business model and how it is can reshape the dynamic business聽environment. Additionally, listening to real stories from social聽entrepreneurs聽and guest speakers was insightful and further sparked an interest in social聽entrepreneurship for me. This module inspired and empowered me to not only focus my聽academic research and dissertation on social innovation but has聽led me to undertake an internship within The Social聽Impact Lab creating digital learning resources. This is just the start of my social聽entrepreneurial聽journey聽as I believe I am a change maker and I hope to further balance the triple bottom line within my business as well as experience Spark India鈥.
Shannon Stack (BSc Business Management - 3rd Year)