EPS3539: Cultivating Entrepreneurial Youth Leaders
4 Advanced Management Credits
Through the Cultivating Entrepreneurial Youth Leaders course, Babson undergraduate students will learn how they can help middle and high school students develop stronger agency, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and empower young changemakers in Costa Rica. The course provides Babson students with the opportunity to learn key elements of teaching entrepreneurship and serving as coaches for youth, using a proven curriculum developed by Babson’s Youth Impact Lab, EPIC (Entrepreneurship Program for Innovators and Changemakers). EPIC is a youth entrepreneurship program that teaches social entrepreneurship skills framed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) to youth to increase their resiliency and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. EPIC is designed to help middle school and high school students understand what it means to be a social entrepreneur, empowering them to make positive change in their lives, communities, and the world.
EPIC balances entrepreneurial concepts with social-emotional skills, or “soft skills.” This unique combination, framed by the UNSDGs, helps youth develop grit, resiliency, a growth mindset, social awareness, social entrepreneurial intention, critical thinking, and self-reflection skills that can:
• Increase high school graduation rates
• Improve academic achievement
• Strengthen employability
• Raise earning potential
• Decrease mental health issues, drug and alcohol use, incarceration rates
Prerequisites: (FME1000 and FME 1001) or (MOB1010 and EPS1000)