Social Entrepreneurship, B.A.
Our social entrepreneurship program prepares students to launch new socially minded companies, enter the free market, build sustainable solutions to social problems and contribute to job creation.
The major focuses on the importance of positively impacting society as a whole. It stresses entrepreneurship as a way to not only achieve personal success, but to give back to others by creating innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems. The major strives to inspire you to use your ambition and passion to develop new ideas to evoke wide-scale change for major social issues.
Comprehensive courses focus on developing skills and broadening understanding of social entrepreneurship, including non-profit public relations, entrepreneurship for social change, social problems and community studies. The coursework is designed to reinforce skill sets in marketing, accounting, sales, leadership and perhaps most importantly, creativity and social awareness.
Learning Outside the Classroom
The social entrepreneurship major requires completion of an internship allowing you to gain firsthand experience working alongside seasoned professionals in a business environment.
Each year, Lenoir-Rhyne hosts Global Entrepreneurship Week, an annual, international initiative aimed to inspire and recognize entrepreneurs. It is the largest celebration recognizing those who invent products and create new companies and start-up businesses, as well as those who use their business to create a social change.
The event features speakers, workshops, roundtable discussions and presentations all focusing on the impact of commercial, social and industrial aspects of entrepreneurship. Faculty members from multiple disciplines, international partners, local and regional entrepreneurs, as well as LR business students participate in the event.
Career Opportunities
It is our goal to help you become not just successful social entrepreneurs who can establish sustainable initiatives and organizations that impact our economy and create jobs, but to also be successful people in a dynamic and ever-changing world.
Career options for students include not only building and running their own commercial or non-profit organization, but also being a valuable member of an existing company.
Our students learn the critical thinking and leadership skills that the world's top employers are seeking. Whether it is envisioning and building your own new ventures or helping to build value in an existing company, you are prepared with the self-confidence and abilities to enter the marketplace and to be successful in building a better world.
Students with a strong commitment to service will be especially drawn to the career opportunities available to the social entrepreneurship major.
Accreditation
Lenoir-Rhyne is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Major Requirements
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General Education Requirements (37 hours)
Graduation Requirements (4 hours)
- Technical Requirements (3-6 Hours)
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Major Business Core Courses (39 Hours)
- ACC 230Ìý-ÌýAccounting for Decision Making
- BUS 300Ìý-ÌýBusiness Communications
- BUS 320Ìý-ÌýManagement Information Systems
- BUS 340Ìý-ÌýBusiness Management
- BUS 344Ìý-ÌýBusiness Finance
- BUS 346Ìý-ÌýBusiness Statistics
- BUS 360Ìý-ÌýMarketing
- BUS 370Ìý-ÌýBusiness Law I
- BUS 380Ìý-ÌýBusiness Ethics and Social Responsibility
- BUS 450Ìý-ÌýBusiness Policy
- CSC 175Ìý-ÌýInformation Technology
- ECO 121 - Macroeconomics Hours: 3
- ECO 122Ìý-ÌýPrinciples of Economics Microeconomics
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Major Requirements (18 Hours)
- ENT/SCE 210Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Entrepreneurship
- SCE 310 - Entrepreneurship for Social Change Hours: 3
- ENT/SCE 404Ìý-ÌýCreativity & Innovation in Organizations
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- BUS 504 - Creativity & Innovation in Organizations Hours: 3
- ENT/SCE 465Ìý-ÌýEntrepreneurial Capstone Experience
Choose Two Courses from the Following (6 Hours)- COM 340 - Non-Profit Public Relations
- ECO 322Ìý-ÌýGovernment and Business
- BUS 526 - Leadership Development
- SOC 200Ìý-ÌýSocial Problems
- HSC 318 - Community Studies
- SCE 461 - Entrepreneurial Internship
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General Elective Credits
(If Needed)
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Total Credit Hours Minimum (128 Hours)
On occasion, technical and/or program requirements may also meet specific core curriculum requirements. Please confer with your program advisor to determine which courses, if any, may be counted accordingly.
All Bachelors programs at Lenoir-Rhyne require at least 128 credit hours. If, in combination, core, technical, and program requirements do not generate at least 128 hours, additional credits must be completed to achieve 128 hours. These classes may be general electives, or a student may complete a minor or additional major.