Master of Arts in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Description

 

Master of Arts (Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship) is a two-year masters’ programme designed to help those who believe in social innovation and enterprise as a tool for social change. The MA program is planned to help students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and mindset necessary to launch a new social entrepreneurial venture or play a key leadership role in an existing one. The programme is interdisciplinary in nature and draws heavily from the blend of praxis of theory and cases, experience, and student inquiry. The programme is structured around the following important elements that are interwoven throughout: the field of social innovations and entrepreneurship, the players and business structures used by entrepreneurs in rural context, the strategies, tensions, and realities of starting and/or managing an enterprise and social venture and making a difference.

 

The programme aims at developing business modeling and critical evaluation skills useful to students contemplating careers in social investing, business consulting, or in international development institutions. It focuses on the unique entrepreneurial processes associated with the creation or discovery of positive social change. The courses are designed to create an innovative and sustainable approach for addressing the rural developmental issues. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the concept, theories and practice of social Innovations and Entrepreneurship around the nation especially in context of rural India. This concentration will provide an introduction to the concepts and theoretical core of social innovations, enterprise and practice. The course aims,

• To enable students to develop and use business skills to address complex social problems especially in context of rural India.
• To enable students to build business plan for their own social venture or enterprise
• To provide students with a working knowledge of the concepts, opportunities and challenges of social innovations and entrepreneurship.

The expectations from the students is that they will be able to demonstrate the role of social innovators and entrepreneurship in creating innovative responses to critical social needs (e.g., hunger, poverty, inner city education, global warming, etc). This course will help to prepare students personally and professionally for meaningful employment by reflecting on the issues of social innovations and entrepreneurship. After the completion of the programme students are expected to start their own venture.

Distribution of Credit Hours:

 

Year	Course Title	Credits
I	Foundation Courses	6
	Core Courses	2
	Thematic Courses	6
	Research Courses	4
	Field Immersion	6
II	Core courses	2
	Thematic Courses	8
	Field Immersion	12
	Dissertation and Viva-Voce (5+1)	6
	Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)	4
	Total Credits	64

Semesterwise Courses:

Semester	Courses	Title of the Course	Credits
I	FC 1	Understanding Indian Society	2
	FC 2	Introduction to Political Economy	2
	FC 3	India’s Development Experience	2
	SIE 1	Social Innovations & Entrepreneurship	2
	CC 1	Understanding the SE Environment: Sector Studies	2
	CC 2	Research Methods	4
	SIE 2	Basic Accounting, Coasting and Economics	Compulsory Non-Credit2
		Field Immersion	6
II	CC 3	Rural Innovations and Entrepreneurship	2
	SIE 4	Business Plan	2
		Field Immersion	8
III	SIE 3	Banking and Microfinance	2
	CC 5	School Entrepreneur Project Management	2
	SIE 4	Marketing for Social Ventures	2
		Pilot Project	12
IV	SIE 5	Business Ethics	2
	SIE 6	Entrepreneurial Leadership and Motivation	2
		Dissertation  &  Viva (5+1)	6
		Choice Based Credit Courses	4
	CC 6	Financial Management	2
	CC 7	Community Capacity Building for Social Innovations and Enterprise Developement	2

 

Note: The Semester -wise listing of courses is provisional, and may undergo some changes

Fee Structure:

 

Components		M.A. in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Fees		Sem I	Sem II	Sem III	Sem IV
FEE	Tuition Fee	16,000	16,000	16,000	16,000
	Examination Fee	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000
CHARGES	Field Education / Internship / Experiential Learning Charges	6,000	0	0	0
	IT Charges	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000
	Library Charges	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500
	Other Charges( ID Card, Convocation & Misc.) *	2,500	0	0	0
FUNDS	Students' Competency Fund	0	0	0	0
	Lab / Studio Fund	0	0	0	0
	Development Fund	10,000	0	10,000	0
	Students' Union Fund *	500	500	500	500
	Alumni Fund *	0	500	0	0
	Health Care Fund*	2,000	0	2,000	0
DEPOSITS	Caution Deposits (Refundable at the time of exit from programme on submission of No Dues Certificate)	10,000	0
	Semester wise Course Fee	51,500	21,500	33,000	21,000
	Yearly Fees	73,000		54,000
	Total Course Fee	1,27,000
Institute reserves the right to revise the Fee Structure of programmes if necessary.
Expenses related to Practicum / Study tour / Rural field work / Urban field work/Winter Institute, if any, will have to be met by the students themselves at the time of the activity.
No fee concession is available for self-finanaced programmes.

 

*Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.

 

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