MGMT343-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Social Entrepreneurship

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

This course is an introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and how it can help communities. It will explore both the theory and practical applications of social entrepreneurship.

Relationship to Other Courses
The course is suitable for any major.

Workload
The workload is 150 hours. Attending lectures, reading text and articles, and doing the project.

Learning Outcomes

GOAL 1 - Graduates can demonstrate advanced knowledge of their selected subject major, informed by the broader context of Commerce;

A. Expose the students to the pervasiveness and complexity of social     needs and how those un-met needs create entrepreneurial opportunities.
B. Define social enterprise and how it differs from profit seeking entrepreneurship.
C. Expose students to the entrepreneurship method and how it can be applied to help address social problems.
D. Explore why and how social entrepreneurship has become a necessity in many nations as government and other traditional social institutions have been unable to achieve their traditional duty of care to society.

GOAL 2 - Graduates are able to use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to address specific problems;

A. Provide the tools and conceptual frameworks to understand entrepreneurial opportunities in the social sector.  Including:
i. Effectuation.
ii. Value Analysis
iii. Opportunity assessment in social enterprises

B. Understand the challenges in measuring economic and social performance and how economic performance is different in social enterprises than in profit seeking enterprise.

GOAL 3 - Graduates can understand issues from a range of ethical, global and multicultural perspectives;

A. Introduce an appreciation of regulatory challenges faced by social entrepreneurs.
B. Introduce an appreciation for the cultural and ethical issued faced in social enterprise.

GOAL 4- Graduates are able to communicate effectively both orally and in written form.

A. Student teams will conduct a project in this class that includes both a written report and an oral presentation.  The student team will have the choice of:
i. Conducting a management assessment of a local social enterprise to provide pro-bono consulting, or
ii. Social enterprise business concept.

Learning Goal Assessment
1 Assignment, Project, Essay
2 Project
3 Assignment, Project, Essay
4 Project

Students are expected to become conversant with all materials discussed in lectures, supplied as hand-outs or identified in course readings.

Prerequisites

Any 90 points at 200-level or above

Restrictions

MGMT 321

Course Coordinator

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 17 Aug 2017 25% Assignment
Group Project and Presentation 50% Group Project and Presentation
Essay 20 Oct 2017 25% Essay


Assignment Week 5 25%
• Over weeks 3 and 4, students are expected to embark on a social enterprise opportunity exploration exercise. You identify a social need/problem and explore how this can be served/solved through social entrepreneurship. Your brief written report will clearly explain WHAT the need/opportunity is; WHY it needs to be addressed and HOW a social enterprise approach can address this situation.

• Students then pitch their enterprise to the class in week 5 using only 6 slides in 5 minutes. The class votes for the top concepts which will be the bases for the class (group) project.

• Due in class: Thursday, 17th August

Group Project and Presentation Week 10 and 11 50%
• Students form teams and develop a business plan for an assigned project.
• Class presentations 5th and 12th October

Essay Week 12 25%
• Due 5pm Friday, 20th October

Grading
The marks for assessments may be scaled before a final grade is determined. You should not regard 50% as a pass mark.

Textbooks / Resources

All articles: Please obtain your own copy of the articles and the text.

Notes

Class Representative
A class representative may be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class. Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep. Their email can be found at UCSA. The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the lecturer concerned as they occur.

Departmental Academic Policies
The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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