Taught By:
Craig Talmage
Associate Professor and Chair
Business Management & Entrepreneurship
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
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Motivation to Teach Social Action:
Recommended by a friend and I am a scholar and educator in the fields of social entrepreneurship and community development
Course Description:
This course considers the two convergent streams of conceptual thought, activity, and impact associated with the emerging field of social innovation and entrepreneurship. First, we will discover who are social entrepreneurs defined as change agents and pioneers of social innovation. We will together try to understand the knowledge, courage, hope, dreams, personalities, cognition thought-patterns, behaviors, strategies, processes, and acumen of today's social entrepreneurs. Second, this understanding leads to our thinking about the application of entrepreneurship principles to social issues. Furthermore, the uniqueness of the nonprofit form in relationship to government and commercial enterprises is acknowledged, so that students may learn of the importance of social enterprise. Social enterprise - the second major stream of content for the course - utilizes earned income strategies to serve social missions. Students will explore, debate, and question whether purpose and profit can go together.
