GCC - 570 Social Entrepreneurship in Health Sciences

This course nurtures the development of social entrepreneurship knowledge, attitudes, and methodological skills in students in the health sciences. This course will use innovation methods from design field and will result in the learner developing a better understanding of the theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship in the health sciences and then apply knowledge to real-world situations. Course learning objectives include: understanding the theory of social entrepreneurship, understanding prior ways of utilizing social entrepreneurship to address health equity issues, understanding the entrepreneurial mindset for facilitating high impact products, programs and services, develop an empathetic understanding of local community needs and opportunities by partnering with appropriate community members, identify a current problem or opportunity the community is facing to achieve health equity, develop a community-designed and tested solution for addressing the problem or seizing the opportunity, foster rapid cycle learning using Lean Start Up principles to implement the program and evaluate its feasibility to achieve desired growth of community capacity to achieve health equity. Growth will be demonstrated through advancing the design, evaluation, and sustainability of a student-led, community-based service learning activity. Offered: Spring. Retake Counts for Credit: No. Pass/No Pass Grading Allowed: No. Credit(s): 2