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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
Faculty/College
Unit aim
Provides collaborative principles to inform an understanding of sustainable social innovation. Identifies social entrepreneurs in Australian Aboriginal contexts and describes methods for ethically shaping business enterprise and development agendas that improve community outcomes and sustain Indigenous lifeways.
Unit content
Module 1: Introduction to Social Enterprise
Module 2: Indigenous Community Enterprise
Module 3: The Aboriginal Estate: Opportunities for Social Enterprise
Module 4: Design of a Social Enterprise: Purpose and Structure
Module 5: Indigenous Social Enterprise Case Studies
Module 6: Challenges for Indigenous Social Enterprises
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | summarise the theoretical basis, practical principles and examples of best practice in social enterprise development |
| 2 | interpret the similarities and differences between Indigenous community practices and the frameworks for social enterprise development |
| 3 | critique the significance of social ethics, shared principles and personal values in establishing and sustaining social enterprise. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- summarise the theoretical basis, practical principles and examples of best practice in social enterprise development
- interpret the similarities and differences between Indigenous community practices and the frameworks for social enterprise development
- critique the significance of social ethics, shared principles and personal values in establishing and sustaining social enterprise.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.