Social-venture planning: liberal arts programme to enhance undergraduates’ creative problem-solving competency / La planificación de emprendimiento social: un programa de artes liberales para fomentar las competencias de resolución creativa de problemas de los estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

This study aimed to develop and implement an undergraduate liberal arts education programme titled Social-Venture Planning for Creative Problem-Solving. The programme was designed based on the creative problem-solving process model and previous research on social-venture planning, with the goal of providing undergraduate students with the experience needed to address social issues in creative ways. To empirically evaluate the programme’s effectiveness, the CPSPI questionnaire was administered both before and after the intervention. Multiple sets of data for a mixed-method analysis were collected. The results demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in creative problem-solving competencies among the undergraduate participants. The results of the qualitative analysis explain the context of the change by subfactors. In the concluding section, key considerations for implementing the programme and the pedagogical implications of integrating social-venture planning into the context of liberal arts education were elaborated.