In Social Entrepreneurship, I found the class more engaging than most of the courses I was taking at school. It was surprising to be put in an environment where our opinions and ideas mattered as students and we were given a blank canvas to work on to show how smart we actually were. The class required out of the box thinking and even encouraged it, which for a college level course it felt like I was in a place like Google headquarters or something like it. We were always told that our ideas were valued and important even if they did not work. Instead we were asked how we could make it work and better.
I think the most challenging part of the class was a shift from sitting in a classroom and being told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and why to do it to being put in a class where you were asked why you were doing something, how you were going to do it, when, and what. It is a completely different mindset from traditional schools and with it being my first college course I was astounded and shocked by what I saw as the way you create inspired students at Longwood. In my opinion, I believe that if more courses did this then it would prepare students for the real world and how a working environment functions. Teaching students how to set themselves apart, how to take risks, how to inspire others, and to go with something that they believe in instead of something they get paid to believe in. I truly think that this class helped me set up a foundation for how I see the world and how I intend to create a better environment for not only myself, but for others.
Artifact
I chose this book as my artifact because in the class we tried to use some of the readings in this book as examples of what we wanted to do in our class. I found it very useful and inspiring in the way that it not only showed that people in the world had made an impact, but it showed how they did it and why it was so important. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to see things from a different perspective and I found it influential in how I perceived things in and outside of the classroom.