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COMM5701: Social Impact

Postgraduate course

Project description

COMM5701 Social Impact is the core course in the Graduate Certificate in Social Impact, the Graduate Diploma in Social Impact and the MBAX Social Impact specialisation (this course may also count as an elective in other programs upon request). The course is an introduction to Social Impact covering fundamental concepts and key developments in what has become a complex social purpose eco-system. The course introduces an understanding of changes across what was formerly seen as a distinct social sector to examine the cross-sectoral social purpose developments that includes traditional organisational structures of Charities and Not For-Profits, Business and Government, but also new and emerging 'hybrid' structures and programs. The course will further explore how intractable social, economic and environmental problems embedded in society are being addressed through social innovation in business entrepreneurship, enterprises and cross-sector collaboration. It looks at why the traditional boundaries between government, business and the social sector have become blurred and fluid and what that means for the capacity to deliver new forms of social impact.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization UNSW

Project aims

The course aims to develop an awareness and critical understanding of social impact and the accelerating economic relationship between the public (government), private (business) and the social (not-for-profit) sectors; the way this relationship is driving the delivery of social and environmental value in communities; and the way in which this accelerating economic relationship drives social innovation, both globally and locally.

Project outcome

It aims to equip participants with a cross-sector understanding of key social impact concepts as they apply to the social purpose ecosystem, and to use this understanding to operate effectively in this changed and changing environment.