Social Entrepreneurship Minor

Meet the Faculty

The Social Entrepreneurship major highlights the business of changing the world. The major combines practical business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills, and understanding of current economic, political, cultural, and environmental issues. The program positions you to find–or create–careers that apply innovative and sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. It enables you to build a career out of making the world a better place, and learn transferable tools for creating change across public, private, and non-profit sectors. A Social Entrepreneurship minor is also offered to complement a major in any discipline.

The Social Entrepreneurship (SE) program is grounded in Rollins’ commitment to educate students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, preparing graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. The SE program is anchored in the Rollins values of Excellence, Innovation, and Community and the AACSB-International values of Innovation, Impact, and Engagement. The program provides opportunities for students to develop a strong set of basic business skills combined with an understanding of current economic, political, cultural, and environmental issues consistent with the Carnegie Foundation’s (2012) definition of the purpose of liberal learning “to enable students to make sense of the world and their place in it, preparing them to use knowledge and skills as a means toward responsible engagement with the life of their times.” environmental issues. The program positions you to find–or create–careers that apply innovative and sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. It enables you to build a career out of making the world a better place, and learn transferable tools for creating change across public, private, and non-profit sectors. A Social Entrepreneurship minor is also offered to complement a major in any discipline. The Social Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB) program is grounded in Rollins’ commitment to educate students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, preparing graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. The SEB program is anchored in the Rollins values of Excellence, Innovation, and Community and the AACSB-International values of Innovation, Impact, and Engagement. The program provides opportunities for students to develop a strong set of basic business skills combined with an understanding of current economic, political, cultural, and environmental issues consistent with the Carnegie Foundation’s (2012) definition of the purpose of liberal learning “to enable students to make sense of the world and their place in it, preparing them to use knowledge and skills as a means toward responsible engagement with the life of their times.”

Key themes of the Social Entrepreneurship program are:

• The Primacy of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) in decision making
  1. Economic growth and development,
  2. Social responsibility and ethics, and
  3. Environmental sustainability
• Contemporary theories, practices, content, and applications in business from the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK)
• The global, ethical, responsible, economic, social, environmental, legal, and technological implications of course content
• Problem solving through analysis, critical thinking, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship through classwork and community engagement
• Applied liberal arts skills (analytic, reflective, and strategic thinking; problem solving; legal and ethical reasoning, quantitative reasoning; and effective communication)
• Leadership, interpersonal communication, coordination, cooperation, conflict resolution, teamwork, and team building
• Application of information technology skills for research, composition, communication, calculation, and presentation
• Broad global and strategic perspectives on contemporary business, social, and environmental issues
• Reflective examination of self in relation to the global and local communities, and to the diversity of people with whom they will work
• Application of knowledge through experiential learning opportunities (internships, service learning, community engagement, business projects, and case studies)