Social Entrepreneurship Certificate

Contact Person: Joaquin Villareal, Director of Entrepreneurship

Disciplines: Interdisciplinary (Entrepreneurship); Earth and Environment; Sociology

Social entrepreneurship leverages best practices in innovation, social change, and startups to address social issues. Students interested in having a positive impact on the world around them will learn how to leverage entrepreneurship to address social issues that matter most to them. Students will learn how to become aware, recognize, and think critically about societal problems and needs in the world around them; develop their entrepreneurial mindsets and techniques to create solutions that are sustainable over time; and apply what they learn in a hands-on project. Blending entrepreneurship with earth and environment and sociology, the certificate builds a bridge between idea generation within academic settings and idea transfer to achieve sustainable, real-world impact regardless of students’ chosen career paths.