Teaching and learning methods
Workshops: Students will participate in a series of workshops which will help them to understand their skillsets (creating benchmarks and monitoring progress) and their own leadership styles. These workshops will take place in class.
Writing individual reports: Students, as part of summative assessment, will submit individual reports where they will present problem landscape, solutions landscape and opportunities for intervention
Reflective log: students will complete weekly blogs on the learning process to reflect on the skills and knowledge acquired during the course, and their understanding of themselves as social impact leaders. These blogposts will be thematised using specific skills and leadership concepts.
Presentations: students will deliver presentations to a panel of external stakeholders, outlining their understanding of given social challenges, current solutions, and the scope for effective new interventions.
Study time
Type |
Hours |
Independent Study |
124 |
Teaching |
26 |
Total study time |
150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Next Billion: Development Through Enterprise.
Guardian Social Enterprise Network.
Harvard Business Review Blog.
Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Textbooks
Polak, Paul (2008). Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail.
Novogratz, Jacqueline (2009). The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.
Prahalad, C. K (2010). The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid : eradicating poverty through profits.
Stokes, D. ,Wilson, N. and Mador, M. (2010). Entrepreneurship, CENGAGE Learning. London.
Elkington, John & Hartigan Pamela (2008). The power of unreasonable people : how social
entrepreneurs create markets that change the world.
Nicholls, Alex (2007). Social entrepreneurship: new models of sustainable social change.
Osterwalder, Alexander. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.
Bornstein, David & Davis, Susan (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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.