Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- To become self-aware of your skills development
- Brainstorm effectively
- Prototype and iterate solutions to social challenges
- Conduct qualitative problem-solving research
- Work in teams and develop leadership skills to design a solution to a social challenge
- Use systems thinking to understand social problems
- Use design thinking to create solutions to social problems
- Communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within presentations and short reports
- Pitch ideas persuasively
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Next Billion: Development Through Enterprise.
Textbooks
Osterwalder, Alexander. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.
Nicholls, Alex (2007). Social entrepreneurship: new models of sustainable social change.
Polak, Paul (2008). Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail.
Prahalad, C. K (2010). The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid : eradicating poverty through profits.
Yunus, Muhammad (2010). Building social business the new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs.
Sommerrock, Katharina (2011). Social entrepreneurship business models.
Stokes, D. ,Wilson, N. and Mador, M. (2010). Entrepreneurship, CENGAGE Learning. London.
Bornstein, David & Davis, Susan (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Novogratz, Jacqueline (2009). The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.
Elkington, John & Hartigan Pamela (2008). The power of unreasonable people : how social entrepreneurs create markets that change the world.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Blog | 10% |
Individual report | 60% |
Group presentation | 30% |
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