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This field is for students seeking to lead social change in a 21st-century context with skills focused on social entrepreneurship and community development.
You'll undertake theoretical and applied courses to understand social entrepreneurship through social enterprise, and work in teams on social issues of your choosing to build financially self-sustaining ventures designed for social impact. Importantly, you'll combine this enterprise-level focus with an understanding of how to build communities.
Career possibilities
Postgraduate study can take you anywhere. Here are some of the careers you could be on your way to:
- Digital and loyalty marketing manager
- Supervision and evaluation officer
- Reconciliation manager
- Community engagement coordinator
- Regional administration officer
- Communications officer
- Dispute resolution practitioner
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How you'll learn
Your learning experiences are designed to best suit the learning outcomes of the courses you choose.
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Research experience
What you'll study
At UQ, subjects are called 'courses'.
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