2021-2022 Catalog

CI-H102 The End of Global Poverty

This course is designed to demystify the creative, process by introducing students to creative, practice as a disciplined approach to, problem-solving and innovation. Students will be, encouraged to synthesize existing ideas, images, concepts, and skill sets in original way, embrace, ambiguity and support divergent thinking and risk, taking. , , More than one-third of our global population, lives in poverty, earning less than two dollars a, day. Governments, businesses, social enterprises, and charitable organizations have tried to solve, the global poverty issue with mixed results. What, is the solution? Is entrepreneurship the, solution, part of the solution, or has no impact, whatsoever? In this course, you will gain an, understanding of the power of entrepreneurship, (in the context of creativity and innovation), the definition and depth of global poverty (in, the context of constraints, such as human, financial and physical resources embedded in, local, regional, national and global cultures), and successes and failures of past initiatives to, reduce poverty. This is not a course about, politics or business, but rather finding a, solution to a problem that has eluded mankind, since the beginning of time.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Restricted to students with less than 54 credits. Students with, more than 54 credits needing to fulfill their CI requirement, should seek approval from the Undergraduate Advising Office., Honors students only