Academic Register 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Entrepreneurship
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Director: Professor H. Fried (Economics)
Courses in a variety of departments at Union examine ways in which entrepreneurs think and act. As students identify how people, in many times and places, have succeeded in attaining their visions for change, they will develop an ability to do the same themselves. In addition to department-based courses, several interdepartmental courses described below provide multidisciplinary approaches to skills including critical analysis and communication that will enable students to put their own ideas and inspiration into action in their chosen fields and areas of interest.
The courses listed below adopt an entrepreneurial lens to understand the world.
Anthropology
- ANT 232T - Fiji Culture & Entrepreneurship
Courses that take multidisciplinary approaches to entrepreneurship
IDM 260 - Social Entrepreneurship Course Units: 1
Entrepreneurs identify opportunities, mobilize resources and make things happen. This course applies the active mindset of the entrepreneur to social organizations. The measure of success is not profit, but change. Passion and mission are the motivators. Examples include feeding the hungry, improving the environment, educating the destitute, housing the poor, training the unskilled, caring for the disenfranchised sick, and much more. Jeroo Billimoria founded Child line in Mumbai, India that provides services to street children. Veronica Khosa founded Tateni that works with aids victims in South Africa. Jacob Schramm founded College Summit to make college accessible to low-income students in the U.S. And the list goes on. In the course, we will study many examples of social entrepreneurship, identify best and worst practices, work with local social entrepreneurial organizations and identify opportunities to make the world a better place.
IDM 299 - Developing a Vision Course Units: 1
Throughout history, leaders in many contexts have used “vision” as a means to not only communicate their desires for the future but also to motivate their followers and supporters to great achievements. This course focuses on developing skills in creating, articulating and planning a vision that will inspire the students (and their supporters) to achieve their goals. This class is intended for mature students who want to learn skills that will help them understand and shape the world around them.
IDM 325 - Entrepreneurship Seminar Course Units: 1
The object of the course is to develop business/ marketing plans for senior projects in engineering that will explore the potential for commercialization. Interdisciplinary teams are organized around each senior project. In order to be successful, the engineers have to communicate the value of their innovative project to liberal arts students; liberal arts students have to communicate the marketing and business strategy to engineers. Engineering senior projects with elements of social responsibility are preferred. This course is about interdisciplinary communication, teamwork, social responsibility, creativity and entrepreneurship.
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