Description

Develop your critical understanding of and practical insights into modes of social enterprise through Goldsmith's MA in Social Entrepreneurship.

This Master's programme, with an exit route at Postgraduate Diploma level, is ideal if you wish to either:
- Develop a sustainable model for a new or existing social enterprise (for example, a business relating to a 'product' or 'process' arising from your practice, to community, or to a form of 'expertise', 'consultancy' or 'knowledge')
- Understand how to create the infrastructure and environment for new social enterprises to flourish in a variety of contexts (for example, city, rural, regional or national)

The programme is designed to encourage you to continue to innovate, and to provide the requisite business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to create a strong social - and, where appropriate, financial - return on your social, creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.

You will study in the interdisciplinary environment of Goldsmiths, and will also benefit from being in London, a city where creative and cultural industries play a key part in the economy, and where organisations such as UnLtd and Innovation Unit - which support social enterprise and innovation - are based.

Many students on the programme come from overseas, and make a valuable contribution to the learning environment by providing an international perspective on social and entrepreneurial issues from their respective countries. In addition, staff members have considerable experience of working and researching internationally in areas that are directly relevant to the programme.

Highlights

Careers:
It is intended that students completing this programme will seek employment primarily in two areas. Firstly: self-employed in their own social enterprise or a member of a team of an SME developing from an existing or new practice. Secondly: within government or NGO organisations concerned with developing the infrastructure and environment for new social enterprises to flourish.

Skills:
Entrepreneurial knowledge and skills; a critical understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of social entrepreneurship; the ability to critically examine the conditions required for innovation and entrepreneurship to make a strong impact on societal problems; the ability to apply entrepreneurial approaches to projects; effective business and communication skills.

Subject Areas

• Culture
• Sociology

Cost in US$:

Please contact us for details.

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Goldsmiths, University of London's Mission Statement

We offer a transformative experience, generating knowledge and stimulating self-discovery through creative, radical and intellectually rigorous thinking and practice.

Year Founded

1891