Courses
GDBU1077 Social Entrepreneurship: Opportunities to Change the World (3 units)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course is about encouraging the entrepreneurial intention and venture creation of students to address social issues, create effective responses to social needs and innovative solutions to social problems, suggest ways to change the community and society, and provide impacts to the global community.
The aims of this course are: (1) to introduce students to the concepts, practices, and challenges of social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong, Greater China and around the world; (2) to equip students with frameworks and tools that offer insights into how social value is created and how social impact can be measured, and (3) to engage students in a joint learning process with social entrepreneurs in Hong Kong so as to enable students to acquire a strong grasp of the various forms, models and approaches that social entrepreneurs are using to attain the “triple bottom line”, that is having the greatest financial, social and environmental impact.
http://ge.hkbu.edu.hk/course/GDBU-1077/