Post Graduate Programmes
Master of Arts in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Location: Tuljapur
School: School of Rural Development
Intake: 30
Description
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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 |
|
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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 |
|
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Field Immersion |
8 |
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|
III
|
SIE 3 |
Banking and Microfinance |
2 |
|
CC 5 |
School Entrepreneur Project Management |
2 |
|
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SIE 4 |
Marketing for Social Ventures |
2 |
|
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Pilot Project |
12 |
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|
IV
|
SIE 5 |
Business Ethics |
2 |
|
SIE 6 |
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Motivation |
2 |
|
|
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Dissertation & Viva (5+1) |
6 |
|
|
Choice Based Credit Courses |
4 |
||
| CC 6 |
Financial Management |
2 |
|
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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 | 17,000 | 17,000 | 17,000 | 17,000 |
| 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 | 52,500 | 22,500 | 34,000 | 22,000 | |
| Yearly Fees | 75,000 | 56,000 | |||
| Total Course Fee | 1,31,000 | ||||
| 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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