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Units: 3-0-6

Focuses on disseminating innovations among underserved communities, especially in developing countries. Students work in teams to complete a term project based on their own ?Big Idea.? Structured around MIT and external competitions; e.g., students enter the MIT IDEAS Competition. Includes an online forum discussion, hands-on learning, student-led case studies, and a final proposal or social-business plan for implementing an innovation. Emphasis on theory, practice, tools and skills related to building partnerships and piloting, financing, implementing, and scaling-up a selected innovation for the common good. The ?practice? component is taught via case studies and guest lecturers. No trips are formally associated with the class, but some students elect to pursue a summer implementation of the dissemination of their innovation. Enrollment limited to 30.

S. E. Murcott