Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

This course gives an introduction to the field of social entrepreneurship. You will be given an introduction to relevant theory, meet social entrepreneurs?and get to know the most important players in the ecosystem for social entrepreneurship in Norway.

Learning outcome

After completing this course you'll be able to

  • Discuss what social entrepreneurship is, and how it differs from voluntary work and other entrepreneurship
  • Describe different organizational forms and business models
  • Describe different sources of funding
  • Describe how we can measure the effects of social entrepreneurship
  • Explain different forms of scaling and growth in social entrepreneurship

Admission to the course

The students will be prioritized as followed:

  1. Students enrolled in the Social entrepreneurship programme.
  2. Master students at the Department of Informatics with this and ENT4000I in their approved study plan.
  3. Others

Formal prerequisite knowledge

Completed bachelor?s degree or being in your sixth semester of a degree is required. There are no restrictions on field of study.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

Mandatory teaching over four full day seminars held in Oslo in the period from mid January until March/April. The teaching consists of lectures, guest lectures, discussions and?work with assignments individually and in groups.

You must attend at least 80% of the teaching to be allowed to take the exam.?If you are absent more than 20%