Goals and Learning Outcomes

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Goals:

1. Develop a good understanding of the concepts and ideas of social entrepreneurship, design thinking, social innovation, agile methodologies, and sustainable development.
2. Provide cross-disciplinary programs by constantly revising its existing concentrations to meet the new challenges of a changing world.
3. Increase synergy between Social entrepreneurship and Design thinking theories and stakeholders through interdisciplinary students鈥� research, capstone projects, internships, civic engagement initiatives and social startups.
4. Cultivate future leaders with social entrepreneurship and design thinking skills and knowledge who are ready to solve problems and respond to global and regional challenges.
5. Commit to the key tenets of the liberal arts and sciences: academic excellence, academic freedom, creativity, critical thinking, and flexibility.听
6. Enable students to create sustainable innovative solutions or social enterprises that address social, economic, and environmental challenges, with a focus on long-term global and regional development.听

Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate, analyze, synthesize, contextualize ideas in a coherent, logical and convincing way in an interdisciplinary context, taking into account Social Entrepreneurship concepts
2. Translate theory into practice by actively participating in capstone projects, internships, consulting and civic engagement.
3. Develop a good understanding of the basic concepts and ideas of social entrepreneurship, design thinking, social innovation, Agile and sustainable development.
4. Develop skills for collaborative, interdisciplinary work and the ability to create innovative solutions for social, environmental, economic challenges in a changing world.