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SI Course Syllabus 10.13

The Social Innovation for Leadership Change course, taught by Darcy Au-Yeung, focuses on social entrepreneurship and aims to equip students with the skills to address social issues through innovative ventures. The course includes modules on understanding social causes, creating business plans, and executing capstone projects, with an emphasis on the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals. Students will engage in experiential learning, mentorship, and various assessments to develop their social enterprise ideas.

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SI Course Syllabus 10.13

The Social Innovation for Leadership Change course, taught by Darcy Au-Yeung, focuses on social entrepreneurship and aims to equip students with the skills to address social issues through innovative ventures. The course includes modules on understanding social causes, creating business plans, and executing capstone projects, with an emphasis on the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals. Students will engage in experiential learning, mentorship, and various assessments to develop their social enterprise ideas.

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Social Innovation Course Syllabus

(Starting in 2021-22 Academic Year)

Basic info
Course: Social Innovation for Leadership Change
Primary Teacher: Darcy Au-Yeung
E-mail: [email protected]

Course Description
Social innovators are change agents who challenge the status quo by using enterprise and
innovation to address existing social problems where the government, private sector, and
traditional non-profit sector are failing to make a significant impact. They effect change through
their own ventures and from within companies and organizations across every industry.

This course provides students with a knowledge and understanding of the principles of social
entrepreneurship and past and current efforts in social entrepreneurship. It will take a global
perspective, including organizations from Beijing, China, and abroad.

The first module of the course will explore social causes through the lenses of the UNDP
Sustainable Development Goals, with presentations from industry professionals and social
entrepreneurs, and through experiential learning trips. Students will identify a social cause that
is meaningful to them and will be the core of their work throughout the course. The second
module of the course is taught in conjunction with the Columbia Business School Venture For
All program and will guide students through the steps necessary to create, develop, and launch
innovative programs, products, and ventures. Students will then apply this knowledge to their
chosen cause in the third module to complete a capstone project.

Learning Outcomes
● Understand and remember the concepts, opportunities and challenges associated with
social entrepreneurship
● Understand the characteristics of successful social entrepreneurship and engage with
the experienced social entrepreneurs
● Analyze perspectives from mentors and colleagues to develop a deeper understanding
of the scope and depth of a chosen social issue
● Understand and apply systems thinking and system mapping to a chosen social issue
● Learn and apply skills related to business planning and management that contain
strategies and assesses related challenges, barriers and opportunities to realize its goal
of addressing the chosen social cause
● Evaluate options for academic and professional careers in social entrepreneurship
including identifying an academic path in college, developing their own social enterprise,
or acting as an intrapreneur in existing organizations across private and public sectors
Course Outline
Unit Competencies Content # of weeks

Understanding SDGs and their complexity by


examining different contexts around the world. 2
Introduction to systems thinking.

Exploring Being Identifying the specific issue that is of most 2


social issues concern and understanding the system.

Analyzing the landscape of the issue to know


what has and is being done and by whom; 2
forming an idea for a solution to the problem.

Transition (consolidation and sharpening focus) 2


(Oct. 27-Nov. 3)

VFA online lecture 1

VFA online lecture 2

VFA online lecture 3

Business planning - Considering ethics and


using empathy to form your business idea

VFA online lecture 4


Forming a Being
VFA online lecture 5
venture Connecting
Business planning - Using systems thinking 11
(VFA online and mapping to define your stakeholders and
course) market

VFA online lecture 6

VFA online lecture 7

Business planning - Prototyping and refining


your product/service to measure and maximize
impact

VFA online lecture 8

VFA online lecture 9

Business planning - Raising and managing


capital to ensure viability of the project

VFA online lecture 10

Transition (consolidation and sharpening focus) 2


Connecting with mentors to discuss the idea

Failure - Workshop to examine case studies


and hear stories of unsuccessful ventures

Impact speaking - Learning a method of public


speaking that helps to minimize anxiety and
deliver a clear and persuasive message

Making an Connecting, Making an elevator pitch 8


impact Innovating
Scaling - Learning about and forming a
strategy to scale social impact

Change - Learning how to deal with risk,


change, and crisis

Conducting research, meeting with mentors,


and consolidating information

Capstone projects due

Grading and Assignments


Assignment Due Weight

Reading reflections Weekly 25%


Short written responses and reflections on
weekly reading assignments and
presentations from guest speakers.

Video documentation (4 parts) After completion of 30%


Describe your vision of a world in which module 1
SDGs are met; Tell the story of the social
issue that most concerns you; Describe what
was from experiential learning trip; Make first
elevator pitch.

Elevator Pitch Two weeks after 10%


Present a 2-minute pitch to class for a social completion of
venture concept idea that addresses a social module 2
problem and your proposed solution to the
problem.

Characterizing the Problem Two weeks after 10%


Brief written or artistic report of the social completion of
venture concept characterizing a social module 2
problem and the proposed solution to the
problem.
Progress Meetings Final week 25%
Idea presentation (April 25-29)
Impact gap
Stakeholder analysis
Market strategy

Course Reading
1. Martin, Roger L., Osberg, Sally R., Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship
Works. Harvard Business Review Press, 2015

2. Chahine, T., Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2015

3. Guo, C., & Bielefeld, W., Social Entrepreneurship: An Evidence-Based Approach to


Creating Social Value. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014

Work deadlines
Assignments and formative assessments will be given soft deadlines, and students are
encouraged to submit their work as early as possible while ensuring that they spend enough
time on the task to produce their best work. If a student is unable to submit their work prior to a
soft deadline, they must consult with the teacher to agree on a timetable for completion of the
assignment. Failure to do so will result in the student forfeiting evaluation and feedback of their
work.

Academic Integrity
A student may be subject to disciplinary action according to the Daystar Academy Academic
Honesty Policy if they in any of the following forms of academic misconduct:

● Cheating - Including but not limited to copying work, using unauthorized materials, or illegally
obtaining test papers or answers prior to a test
● Plagiarism - Representation of the ideas or work of another person as his/her own.
● Collusion - Supporting malpractice by another student by allowing work to be copied
or submitted for assessment by another.
● Duplication of work - Presentation of the same piece of work for different assessment
components and/or requirements.
● Data fabrication - Manufacturing data for a table, survey, or other such requirement.

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