This foundational course introduces students to diverse interdisciplinary perspectives and models for social innovation. Students learn to identify and evaluate structural inequalities and power relationships across a variety of sectors (forprofit, nonprofit, and governmental). They will develop a vocabulary for engaging with diverse communities and explore models of community engagement. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to PMASI.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid
Providing a survey of interdisciplinary and multiple method research approaches with a focus on the complexities of in-depth social inquiry including theoretical approaches to social problems. Course includes a discussion of the assumptions shaping interdisciplinary research questions and design, practical exercises in research techniques, and analysis of methodology in practice. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
This course provides a macroview and microview of social innovation through case studies focused on change agents and strategies for innovation. Students will examine social innovation processes, movements, and complex adaptive systems of change across and between nonprofit, for-profit, and governmental sectors including a variety of case studies. Offered spring/summer semester. Prerequisite: SI 610.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Hybrid
Designed to reinforce students' abilities to identify and critically evaluate structural inequalities, implicit values, and power relations across for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental sectors that shape the communities with which they engage. Includes discussion of theoretical frameworks for understanding equality/inequality as well as mechanisms for assessing inclusion and equity. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: SI 600 or SI 610 or SI 620.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Online
This course explores the creation of sustainable human communities, through the critical frameworks of place and environmental justice. Grounded in careful exploration of lived experience and the development of interdisciplinary place-based frameworks, students will develop critical tools for and perspectives on integrated ecologies of social innovation. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: SI 600 or SI 610 or SI 620.
Fall 2024 - Hybrid
Readings, lectures, and/or discussions in specific topics not normally covered by other courses in the program.
In this course, students will work collaboratively with peers to develop and design a research project addressing a complex local/regional social problem. The project design will integrate social innovation research theory and practice, and iterative and adaptive project modeling. Students will share their project design in a culminating presentation. Prerequisites: SI 610 and SI 661 (SI 661 may be taken concurrently).
Winter 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online
Supervised preparation of final research project for the professional Master of Arts in social innovation degree. Project research will be conducted under the supervision of faculty project supervisor. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: SI 690, and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within last three years.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Continuation of work related to the master’s project or thesis phase of the graduate student’s program. Registration is required after all respective project or thesis credits are completed and the project or thesis is not completed. Work will be performed under the supervision of the project advisor or thesis committee chair. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Completion of all required project or thesis credits and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within last 3 years.
Fall 2024 - Online
