SPRn4485 Social Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Susantha Kumara Rasnayaka Mudiyanselage (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Navrátil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Pavel Navrátil, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 PC26
Prerequisites
Non
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The objective of this course is to provide students with substantial knowledge about the concept of poverty and existing conventional strategies of poverty alleviation and equip them with the required intervention skills to help individuals, groups and communities to recognize community-level social enterprises through which they are capable of achieving self-progress.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course, the students should be able to:
-Demonstrate a clear understanding of the concept of poverty and the conventional strategies of poverty alleviation
-Describe the change agent role of social enterprises in creating innovative responses to poverty alleviation
-Learn business and entrepreneurship skills that will help build a sustainable business model that addresses a societal problem
-Explain the existing challenge and constraints in sustaining a social enterprise
-Conceptualize and develop a social enterprise model to alleviate poverty in a given context.
Syllabus
  • Concept of poverty, conventional strategies of poverty alleviation, Introduction to social innovation/entrepreneurship and change making, identification and developing a social enterprise, mainstream capital funding and poor, the role of micro credits and managing credits, empowering women and youth social entrepreneurship, networking poor for creation of social enterprises, managing social enterprises, cross-sector partnerships (public, private, and/or non-profit institutions) and value creation for socio-economic change, Case studies of success stories; Grameen Bank and BRAC
Teaching methods
This course will use lectures, book/article reviews, case discussions, and student presentations to deliver the course content. Active participation in the class is essential where every student is requested to ask questions and actively participate in discussions/seminars on each topic.
Assessment methods
Class attendance- 20% Social change group project-30% Social enterprise essay writing- 50%
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
Course guarantor: Doc. PhDr. Pavel Navrátil, PhD. Course lecturer: Susantha Kumara Rasnayaka Mudiyanselage, MPhil, MA, PhD (reading), skrasnayake@gmail.com
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022.
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