This course focused on the global perspective of social innovations, and enhanced the creative side of honors courses. Longwood students were asked to work with students in the Netherlands, and come up with a social innovation to fix an issue that is present in both countries in a way to fit certain requirements. This challenging course led to outside of the box thinking and group idea sharing to create an ideal representation of our solution.
My group found that a huge problem in both countries was acceptance and integration of immigrants, and we chose to combat this issue while also attempting to tackle plastic waste. We designed a company that would hire immigrants, and provide them with information as well as friends to help them integrate better into society. Classes in the building would be provided for free to teach english and common skills to better help the adaptation to their new life. The building itself would be a plastic recycling facility, which would take in plastic and transform it into household items, such as baskets, brooms, etc. that workers and others could make for themselves or purchase at low costs.
The article I included is the reflection paper on the course and final project, which better demonstrates the nature of the course and its topics. I found this course intellectually stimulating and enjoyed how it was not built like many other courses.
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Open in new tab Reflection, Emily Mothersbaugh December 3rd, 2018
A few goals I have set upon the completion of this course are to make sure I help everyone to feel included, especially those who are not widely accepted by everyone. I also made it my goal to reduce my use of plastic, and would like to start by using reusable grocery bags next time I go to the store instead of constantly using plastic ones.