Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Prototype and iterate solutions to social challenges
- Use systems thinking to understand social problems
- Pitch ideas persuasively
- Use design thinking to create solutions to social problems
- Brainstorm effectively
- To become self-aware of your skills development
- Conduct qualitative problem-solving research
- Work in teams and develop leadership skills to design a solution to a social challenge
- Communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within presentations and short reports
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 26 |
Independent Study | 124 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Guardian Social Enterprise Network.
Next Billion: Development Through Enterprise.
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Textbooks
Osterwalder, Alexander. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.
Yunus, Muhammad (2010). Building social business the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs.
Polak, Paul (2008). Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail.
Stokes, D. ,Wilson, N. and Mador, M. (2010). Entrepreneurship, CENGAGE Learning. London.
Sommerrock, Katharina (2011). Social entrepreneurship business models.
Novogratz, Jacqueline (2009). The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.
Nicholls, Alex (2007). Social entrepreneurship: new models of sustainable social change.
Bornstein, David & Davis, Susan (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Elkington, John & Hartigan Pamela (2008). The power of unreasonable people : how social entrepreneurs create markets that change the world.
Prahalad, C. K (2010). The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid : eradicating poverty through profits.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Individual report | 60% |
Group presentation | 30% |
Blog | 10% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Individual report | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External