DBA 8121: Price Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators
3 credits
Only open to DBA students
This course centers around an immersive experience called Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (PB SEE), Babson’s longest standing program for entrepreneurship educators who want to elevate their art and craft of teaching entrepreneurship. PB SEE emphasizes action-based learning, student engagement, doing through practice, and the application of Entrepreneurial Thought & Action® (ET&A) – a methodology for teaching entrepreneurship so that students are better able to navigate uncertainty to identify and execute new initiatives. Underscoring the ET&A methodology is the importance of entrepreneurial mindset and helping educators facilitate the transformation of their students from where they are currently to thinking and acting more entrepreneurially. As a result, PB SEE stresses “how” we teach entrepreneurship is just important as “what” we teach with the following program.
For this DBA course, DBA students will participate in PB SEE with approximately 30 other (non-Babson) educators from around the world. The DBA cohort will have additional coursework before, during, and after PB SEE that connects content, deepens the level of inquiry, and achieves learning objectives. Students will experience how entrepreneurship is taught at Babson College while critically observing and applying qualitative research techniques to begin answering an ongoing question about the fundamental purpose of entrepreneurship education: Should educators teach about, for, or through entrepreneurship?