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May 21, 2024
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ES 4730 - Environmental Entrepreneurship
Students gain an understanding of key problems, root causes, and potential entrepreneurial solutions relevant to selected contemporary environmental challenges. Students apply interdisciplinary perspectives to identify, analyze, and evaluate environmental issues, measure impacts, and establish criteria for effective remedies. The course reviews key environmental challenges within selected areas (with topical themes chosen from contemporary issues in environment, health & well being, education, economic development, and other timely topics.) as well as fundamentals of social entrepreneurship to enable students to design and present enterprise development models for market-based social ventures seeking to deliver such remedies. Students learn how to pitch venture proposals to address criteria evaluating efficacy, feasibility, sustainability, and potential “return on investment” for both financial and social/environmental impacts.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to evaluate causes, impacts, and solutions relevant to key environmental challenges facing contemporary society.
- Students will be able to describe key concepts and principles of social entrepreneurship.
- Students will be able to apply venture development tools to analyze issues impacting market-based solutions to environmental problems.
- Students will be able to compare social enterprise business models against measures of social impact, financial viability, and investment worthiness.
- Students will be able to defend proposals for social ventures seeking both financial and social returns on investment.
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