The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative encourages you to build your graduate degree curriculum based on your unique interests and goals and the requirements of the master’s or doctoral degree program you're pursuing at The New School. These curricular resources
are designed to guide and support you as you decide how to incorporate entrepreneurial skill-building and social innovation strategies into your New School education.
Signature Courses
Students in early-stage venture development can apply to register for these courses. The courses support graduate students in building the capacities and networks needed to develop sustainable
ventures that address critical societal challenges.
- Intro to Social Entrepreneurship introduces students to key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and explores entrepreneurial approaches that address social problems in the United States and abroad.
- The Venture Lab supports graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in developing financially sustainable ventures with the potential for scalable impact.
Graduate Minor
The graduate minor in Impact Entrepreneurship offers students an opportunity to further develop their entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and mindsets so that they can identify
opportunities to create positive social impact in our rapidly changing world.
Drawing on interdisciplinary courses that engage with their interests, students learn to take a collaborative, design-driven, systems-oriented approach to addressing unmet social needs. They explore potential pathways for scaling wide, to address a large population of people, or scaling deep, to address the causes of problems and strengthen local community relationships. Students develop diverse skills in areas including cross-sector leadership, management, venture development, design research and prototyping, fundraising, finance, marketing, and social responsibility.