Diploma in Indigenous Social Entrepreneurship

Indigenous Social Entrepreneurship is a one-year diploma completed as the second year of specialization after the one-year Social Innovation and Community Development certificate, delivered at the Exchange District Campus in Winnipeg with a September intake and significant online learning built in for flexibility. Coursework is experiential, project-based, and largely modular, with courses scheduled sequentially so students build knowledge across the different dimensions of social entrepreneurship. Students develop a product or service that addresses a specific market and social opportunity and build the organizational infrastructure needed to launch it, working toward establishing their own enterprise or joining an existing social enterprise. Students must complete six credit hours of elective courses during the diploma year to fulfill the second-year program requirement, and high participation in coursework is considered important to academic success.