Nov 09, 2024  
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Social Innovation Minor

Location(s): Storm Lake


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Students who participate in the minor in Social Innovation will demonstrate ability and commitment to collaboratively work across and within community contexts and structures to achieve a civic aim, while also understanding their individual identity in social context. They will demonstrate the interdependence between communities, societies, and the rest of the world by engaging with others in learning about and acting on an issue they care about. They will also demonstrate an understanding of relationships between diversity, inequality, and social, economic, and political power both in the United States and globally.

Students pursuing the Social Innovation minor will be required to complete a “core” of courses (6 credit-hours), and four additional courses, at least one in each of the following three areas (12 credit-hours; 18 credit hours total):

  • Community Engagement & Context - strategies for building coalitions to bring about social change
  • Civic Identity - identify how groups come together and self-define to achieve shared goals
  • Diversity and Intercultural Competency - recognizing and responding to intersectionality.

18 credit hours


One additional 3 credit-hour elective course must be taken from any of the three categories listed, for a total of 18 credit hours. At least 6 hours must be at the 300- or 400-level. Of the elective courses within the minor, they must come from at least two different disciplines.

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