The Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI) Minor exposes undergraduate students to an integrated approach to applying entrepreneurial principles, concepts, and tools to the world's biggest social problems. Open to all Notre Dame undergraduates, this customizable minor offers a practical and experiential approach to making the world a better place. Students strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset as they develop innovative solutions to global issues such as poverty, clean water, human trafficking, racial and ethnic discrimination, domestic abuse, literacy, health care, etc.
The SEI Minor consists of 15 credit hours, including:
- two cornerstone courses (6 hours)
- two elective core courses (6 hours)
- one capstone course (3 hours)
In addition to the competency-based approach offered in the cornerstone, capstone, and several elective courses, students can build their own hands-on learning experience by choosing from various elective courses across campus and participating in experiential opportunities outside the classroom. Whatever your area of interest, the SEI Minor provides practical tools needed to be successful across the nonprofit, private, and government sectors And a distinct extracurricular culture extends SEI Minor experience beyond the classroom through events, panels, workshops, networking, service and more.
Other opportunities available to SEI Minor students include preferential consideration for Keough School scholarships, stipends and access to events and other entrepreneurship and global development opportunities.
To learn more about the SEI Minor or to register, contact program Co-director and Academic Coordinator Melissa Paulsen at mpaulse1@nd.edu.
The SEI Minor is housed within the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Faculty and staff within the McKenna Center have extensive experience implementing projects, conducting scholarly and applied research, and teaching courses related to social innovation and entrepreneurship.