Social Innovation Minor

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.