Degree: B.S., Business Administration
College of Business
The Social Entrepreneurship major equips students to design, launch, and lead social ventures that create positive social and environmental change alongside financial sustainability. Students develop the tools of venture creation, opportunity recognition, business modeling, funding, and growth, while building competencies in design thinking, stakeholder management, leadership, and benchmarking social impact/community wealth creation. The major develops ethical leaders who embrace the mission as innovators ready to catalyze change in nonprofits, for-profits, and hybrid organizations across a rapidly evolving impact economy.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of accounting concepts.
2. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of finance concepts.
3. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of information systems concepts.
4. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of management concepts.
5. Students will demonstrate a working knowledge of marketing concepts.
6. Students will understand global issues in business.
7. Students will understand ethical issues in business.
8. Students will think critically in solving complex business problems.
9. Students will effectively articulate business knowledge in oral communication.
10. Students will effectively articulate business knowledge in written communication.
11. Students will effectively apply research methods knowledge through defining research problem, formulating hypothesis, and data analysis.
To be admitted to the Social Entrepreneurship major, students must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better after completing at least 27 college credits and a grade of C or higher in ACCT 102 Principles of Accounting II, and have met the criteria for major declaration set forth in the Academic Catalog.
The Social Entrepreneurship major leads to a Bachelor of Science degree. Students should note the degree requirements for B.S. degrees found at B.A./B.S Degree Information. Additional important information is contained in the description of B.A./B.S./B.S.Ed. General Education Requirements.
Please also note that University Academic Policies and Procedures apply to students in the College of Business. Students with questions about general academic requirements should consult this part of the Catalog for guidance. All Academic Resources described in this Catalog are available as needed to students in the College of Business.
Major Requirements
Required Prerequisites
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BLAW 201 | Legal Environment of Business 1 | 3 |
| STAT 180 | Introduction to Statistics 1 | 3 |
| ECON 201B | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 202B | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| Total Credits | 12 | |
- 1
Or its equivalent (ECON 361A Introductory Econometrics or PSYC 261A Introductory Statistics for Psychology)
Common Core
The Social Entrepreneurship Major is offered within the College of Business leading to the Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration. All business majors are multi-disciplinary degrees that require students master concepts from across the business disciplines: Accounting, Business Administration, Business Law, Decision Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Management and Information Systems, and Marketing. All majors share a common core of 30 hours of business classes. This common core consists of:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Lower-Division Requirements | ||
| ACCT 101 & ACCT 102 | Principles of Accounting I and Principles of Accounting II | 6 |
| MIST 201 | Management Information Systems and Applications | 3 |
| Upper-Division Requirements | ||
| BUAD 350 | Business Communication | 3 |
| DSCI 352 | Analytics I: Predictive Models | 3 |
| DSCI 353 | Analytics II: Optimization Models | 3 |
| FINC 301 | Principles of Finance | 3 |
| MGMT 301 | Principles of Management | 3 |
| MGMT 490 | Strategic Management | 3 |
| MKTG 301 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Total Credits | 30 | |
Upper Level Electives
Student must then complete an additional eighteen (18) credits of classes to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Students may major in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, International Business, Management and Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, or Marketing. Upon completion of the program, student transcripts shall state their degree (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration) and their major.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MGMT 302 | Foundations of Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| MGMT/MKTG 366 | Social Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| ENTR 376 | How to Change the World | 3 |
| ENTR 426 | Futurnomics | 3 |
| Select 6 credits of the following: | 6 | |
| Entrepreneurial Venture Design | ||
| International Entrepreneurship | ||
| Family Business Venturing | ||
| Entrepreneurial Venture Creation | ||
| Corporate Entrepreneurship: Running and Growing an Entrepreneurial Firm in a Global Economy | ||
| Alleviating Food Waste | ||
| Ecotourism | ||
| Practicum in Entrepreneurship | ||
| Individual Study in Entrepreneurship | ||
| Entrepreneurship Internship | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |
General Education Requirements
The general education requirements for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degrees apply to all students who are seeking to earn an undergraduate B.A., B.S. or B.S.Ed. degree.
Students seeking a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree have a separate set of BLS general education requirements.
Electives
Elective courses are those that are not needed to fulfill a general education requirement or major program requirement but are chosen by the student to complete the 120 credits required for graduation with a B.A./B.S./B.S.Ed. degree or the BLS degree. These courses may be taken graded or pass/fail (or S/U in the case of physical education and 100-level dance). No student in a regular B.A./B.S./B.S.Ed. program may count more than 60 credits in a single discipline toward the 120 credits required for graduation.
Total Credits Required for the Degree: 120 credits
For a suggested plan of study for the Social Entrepreneurship major, please contact the College of Business directly.
Business Faculty
Filiz Tabak, Dean for Faculty
Mukesh Srivastava, Chair
Professors
Christopher J. Garcia
Lance C. Gentry
David L. Henderson, III
Kenneth D. Machande
Kashef A. Majid
John S. Marsh
Mukesh Srivastava
Xiaofeng Zhao
Associate Professors
Wei Chen
Kanchan Deosthali
Alexandra M. Dunn
Rachel L. Graefe-Anderson
Sayan Sarkar
Assistant Professors
Samira Fallah
Siang-Ru [Lulu] Huang
Durgesh Pattanayak
Tsung-Hsuan Yang
Senior Lecturers
Kimberley L. Kinsley
Smita Jain Oxford
Instructors
Christopher H. Willis