Occupational Justice and Social Entrepreneurship

Description from DukeHub

Students explore the synergies between occupational justice and social entrepreneurship in response to state and local occupational injustices and challenges. They generate strategies and occupation-centered options to mitigate and eliminate social ills. Students are inspired and empowered by the passion, stories, and prosocial concerns of successful occupational therapy social entrepreneurs who are part of their knowledge community. The course culminates in a juried presentation of a proposed occupation-centered social enterprise or innovation for the local community.

Skills

• public speakingAI review: "culminates in a juried presentation"

AI-resilient: 2 of 5 2/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "therapy"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

More in OT-D

• Occupational Transitions I OT-D 508
• Occupational Transitions II OT-D 509
• Occupational Transitions III OT-D 510
• Enabling Occupation Skills II OT-D 511
• Assembling, Creating, & Translating Knowledge II OT-D 512
• Formation for Service II OT-D 513

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