This course is designed to help masters-level and doctoral students explore the relationship between place, poverty, opportunity, and the administration of social policies or programs in urban, suburban, and rural communities today.
This masters-level course will explore the emergence of social enterprise and social innovations in the past two decades as responses to the complex needs facing the nonprofit human service sector. We will consider how social entrepreneurs have sought to cultivate and evaluate new service delivery approaches, new revenue models, and new methods for measuring impact.
This course offers an overview of contemporary social welfare policies affecting low-income families in the United States, with attention to their historical and philosophical foundations.