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3.00 Credits
Special Topics
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3.00 Credits
Special Topics: Current Issues in Healthcare
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3.00 Credits
Community Development Finance Investment
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to frameworks, metrics, and tools for measuring the impact of a company, organization, or project. Students will learn how to define social impact success in the short-term and long-term, decide what to measure, and assess and value impact. They will study a number of metrics currently used by influential impact organizations with the goal of understanding constituent elements and creating new metrics tailored to specific initiatives. The course will also consider broader questions related to the benefits and limitations of impact evaluation and measurement.
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3.00 Credits
This course prepares non-profit leaders to understand the role of civil society and how the charitable sector is a critical element within it. The course provides a historical and cultural understanding of the emergence of civil society from a foundation of human helping. The course shows how the non-profit sector actively engages and challenges government and public leaders through policy interventions and advocacy to advance the local and global struggle for human rights. Students are prepared to advocate for social justice by developing the foundational skills necessary to assess and intervene in the policy process as well as develop and implement advocacy campaigns to influence policy. The course further emphasizes the importance of developing a biblical basis for social justice advocacy and the need for Christian professionals to cultivate strong advocacy skills.
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3.00 Credits
Develop the skills to craft and execute a strategic framework that builds competitive advantage and steward resources, talent, customer loyalty, and brand reputation. Students learn to develop and evaluate strategic plans that account for organizational mission and goals in addition to the external environment including economic, political, technological, social, and global factors they must confront.
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3.00 Credits
Behind every successful organization is a well-crafted, well-executed strategy aimed at achieving the organization's goals. In this course, students will develop competencies to prepare and assess strategic plans. Tools will be provided to evaluate the organization's external and internal environments to build competitive advantage and improve company performance. Students will recommend strategic approaches to strengthen the company's competitive position in the market. The course culminates by examining the leadership challenges of strategic management and offering best practices for leading organizational change.
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3.00 Credits
This course equips students with the tools and understanding for mobilizing enterprise resources to advance a mission driven venture. Students will evaluate strategic plans that account for social impact goals and the organizational, economic, political, technological, and global factors they must confront. Emphasis is on fostering a culture of innovation across the enterprise, integrating business logic models and theories of change; capacity planning, prototype development, and the implementation of management protocols that drive bottom line performance and deliver on mission.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course---anchored in praxis---explores how to create impact through social entrepreneurship. Students will define a social problem, understand its contextual realities, and develop and implement a solution. Students demonstrate that they have understood the social problem, envisioned new future possibilities, built a model for change, and devised strategies for scaling the solution.
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3.00 Credits
A student-directed applied learning project completed under faculty advisement designed to allow students to demonstrate their management competency. Adopting the persona of a researcher, consultant, or founder of a new venture, students select a topic, problem, or opportunity to explore as a culminating project in the course. Students demonstrate mastery of their program's material by incorporating critical analysis, sound business principles, ethical standards, and best practices into a research paper, business plan, presentation, and/or pitch.
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