Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Change is for you if…

  • You want to identify complex and hidden communal needs

  • You want to work for an NGO that addresses social problems

  • You want to create a social-impact startup or innovative nonprofit

 

For the list of major requirements, click here.

NGOs and Social Change Learning Objectives

1. Understand roots of the problems NGOs aim to solve, including the many ways that people have tried to understand and solve social problems.

2. Become critical consumers of research in order to assess solutions for social problems.

3. Analyze different theoretical perspectives and explore how approaches to understanding social problems vary.

4. Examine the social environments in which NGOs operate, including an internship experience.

5. Learn the strategies that organizations use to try to solve social problems and inspire change.

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