SUST 650 - Ldrshp, Scl Innovtn, Sustainability

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

This course provides the foundation for Social Innovation and Sustainability Leadership Program. It creates a community of learners and doers that support each other in becoming effective changemakers. Students learn foundational leadership frameworks and tools such as Theory U, Systems Thinking, Just Sustainanbilites, Design Thinking, Collective Impact, Social Entrepreneurship, and several others. The class includes numerous site visits and dialogues with local, national, and global changemakers. Students experience the direct application of leadership and change tools. The course further explores relationship between sustainability, economic development, and social equity. Students begin to identify a social innovation project they wish to begin in SUST 651.