INNOV 201Social Innovation for Global Impact

This course will introduce students to the global dimension of social innovation as a fundamental attribute of this approach. How social innovations respond to global challenges and achieve transformative impacts on a global scale will be the focus of this course. This course will use a mixture of written case studies, active learning, and experiential field visits with local social innovation-based initiatives to introduce students to the relationship between local activities and global challenges. It will enable students to deepen their knowledge of social innovation concepts and methods in a broader comparative and global context.