During spring semester, residents of the StartUp Learning Community—a residence hall-based group of 64 self-selected first year students who are interested in entrepreneurship—can register to take the super popular seminar course, MHR 321: Social Entrepreneurship. Taught in Grainger Hall, just steps away from their residence in Sellery Hall, the course provides a unique opportunity for our students to see how innovation, enterprise development and philanthropy can be cornerstones of societal change.
The seminar is a low-risk, one credit course for StartUp students to explore in a casual and conversational format how innovative thinking and entrepreneurial action can help improve communities. By using both a case study and applied approach, students get hands-on experience and learn how to create a socially-engaged business as well as how to use entrepreneurial approaches to non-profit ventures.
Over the course of 15 weeks, students will develop mission statements, learn to assess social impact, and delve into fundraising. The course is grounded in management theory and is taught by Professor John Surdyk of the Wisconsin School of Business and Director of INSITE.
Read more here: https://business.wisc.edu/centers/weinert/blog/spring-is-for-social-second-semester-in-the-startup-learning-community/