Professor Takayuki Yoshioka teaches “Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship” module.
What is this module about?
This module provides students with opportunities to learn how to change society for the better as visionary nonprofit leaders or social entrepreneurs. Students explore the social, political, and economic roles of nonprofits and social enterprises while learning professional and management skills through an interdisciplinary approach that utilizes hands-on group projects, step-by-step exercises, case study analysis, group work, and group discussions.
What do you want students to get out of this module through taking your courses?
By studying in this module, I hope that students will be able to discern the big picture of the roles of the nonprofit, government, and business sectors and to earn management and leadership skills and professional expertise in program evaluation, social marketing, fundraising, and public policy advocacy. In this way, students can become visionary nonprofit leaders or social entrepreneurs with a broader view on philanthropy in civil society.
What is the most important thing about university education for you?
I think that it is most important for students to take their own initiative in their studies. Because the Discovery Program offers flexible curriculum, students can develop their own curriculum based on their own academic or professional interests. Professors assist students in structuring their curriculum and give them academic and professional advice, so that students can be the main players in their academic lives.
What kind of topics can students in your research seminar do for Senior Project?
Students explore topics relevant to nonprofits, philanthropy, and civil society. Past Senior Project topics include youth volunteering, partnership between food banks and local governments, inclusive education in Cambodia, public policy process in local governments in Jordan, zero-waste policy in Japanese local community, foreign workers in the nursing industry in Japan, atomic bomb museums in Japan, support system for teenage pregnancy in Japanese local governments, and community development events in Japan. Students are expected to collect and analyze data by themselves to complete their Senior Project.
Course list:
Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations, Global Philanthropy and Comparative Nonprofit Sectors, Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship, and Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship Practicum I/II/III
