Course Description: M.A. in Social Work (Livelihoods and Social Entrepreneurship), TISS Mumbai

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In this specialization we attempt to provide the students with knowledge, skills and attitudes to innovate and initiate work with optimal social impact. It aims at developing competency among the students on critical thinking, knowledge building and a set of practice skills in the area of conceiving, designing and managing social enterprises with a view to create wealth for the most vulnerable categories of society. The objective of the course is to nurture entrepreneurial attribute of young professionals and equip them to build entrepreneurial venture in the emerging social sectors. This process will help to identify and recognize the traditional livelihood and entrepreneurial models and work towards connecting these models in the larger paradigm of socio-economic development process.

The mode of learning will have a blend of theoretical analysis of existing models of social entrepreneurship across the South Asian sub-continent and intensive action research on workable models for livelihood trends and newer possibilities. Students will have the opportunity to be associated with some of the leading social entrepreneurs of the country and also of the SAARC countries with flexible visa regimes. The strategic location of the North East will enable the students with diverse learning opportunities on the process of regional cooperation which affects fair trade practices and has a direct impact of human development. It has been a constant endeavor to establish the inverse correlation between social unrest and job security. This specialization will enable the students to engage in research, self-start projects and consultancy initiatives which will somewhere have an impact on the dismal graph of unemployment and social business. There will be a state specific focus with respect to the North Eastern States where livelihood and entrepreneurial efforts need to be equipped with the knowledge of trade policies, fair trade practices, patent rights, intellectual property rights and geographical indication acts which have been violated due to lack of awareness and vigilance.

The programme thus aims at developing a cadre of professionals competent to visualise economic opportunities, conceive and design plans, raise resources, develop products and services and evaluate and change the system of operation. In addition, the students will develop competency in designing and redesigning appropriate and efficient service delivery systems, and creating and strengthening an effective organizational mechanism in social enterprises.

The programme aims at two-fold approaches for placement. Firstly, the students will be encouraged and facilitated to start their own social enterprises. It is visualised that over the years a substantial number of students will take the entrepreneurial path and set up their own enterprises. Secondly, every effort will be made to place the students looking for final job placement such that they may get recruited through campus placements. The graduating students are likely to be placed in junior and middle level administrative positions in microfinance institutions, social enterprises, co-operatives, and in the area of economic activities of grassroots/operating NGOs, intermediary organisations, funding agencies, international aid agencies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) division of business houses and family trusts. The nature of work may encompass any and all the following areas: economic need assessment, business planning, business plan formulation, project appraisal, project monitoring, project evaluation, fund raising, setting up of beneficiary organisations, preparing entrepreneurship development programmes, promoting and supporting entrepreneurs, etc.
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