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Social entrepreneurship is the practice of identifying, starting, and growing successful mission-driven businesses and social ventures - that is, organizations that strive to advance social change through innovative solutions. This course is a general introduction to social entrepreneurship, an emerging field that lies at the intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and social change. The course will identify innovative social entrepreneurs that are attempting to mitigate problems facing humanity and our planet today. Course materials and activities will expose students to theory regarding entrepreneurship, models of social change, definitions and characteristics of the social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship, successes and failures of social entrepreneurs, management skills required for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurial organizations, scaling of social impact, and impact measurement for social ventures.