CCCX 399 Innovation and Impact:

Innovation and Impact courses build on the experience of Creative Communities. In this class, students will employ an entrepreneurial mindset to understand how equity-focused innovation can drive sustained social, economic, and cultural impact. By using entrepreneurial thinking to generate ideas and put those ideas into action, students will learn to recognize and cultivate opportunities for a range of innovative projects such as business ventures, social and civic services, and creative projects in media, arts, and design. Designed as a transformative Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) education experience, the class will offer structures for students to assess, leverage and add to their own skill sets through transdisciplinary collaboration and proactive self-evaluation practices. Beginning with the critical interrogation of case studies and sites, students will employ methodologies connected with business, technology and communications in order to create a proposal/portfolio deliverable for a new business, social venture, and/or speculative enterprise.

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Repeatable: N
SP DEI INIM
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3