'Impact Investing' is the proactive deployment of financial resources to organizations for a positive return on investment and an additional, intentional social impact beyond financial returns. Impact Investing explores how funders (grant funders, investors, and policymakers) deploy capital to support social entrepreneurs. This course provides an introductory understanding of utilizing finance as a tool for solving social problems worldwide.

This experiential learning course applies basic principles of social entrepreneurship to real-world problems that social entrepreneurs are facing. Students will work in teams on challenges proposed by a set of local and international social entrepreneurs. This is a design-thinking-centric course for students interested in investigating how our world is adapting to solve the greatest social and environmental challenges of this century.

This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department's Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Courses examine special topics in public policy and/or leadership.

Students will learn foundational business knowledge in the key areas of accounting, finance and Excel, management, and marketing. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, building financial statements, competitive positioning, entrepreneurship, and pricing strategy.

This course provides a unique experience for students to participate in a variety of adaptive sports, such as goalball or wheelchair rugby, as potential lifetime physical activity options. Students will: (a) learn basic skills and rules of each adaptive sport or activity, (b) develop and improve technical and tactical skills through game play, and (c) examine the intersection of culture, disability, and sport/recreation.

This course is designed to examine and experience the intersection of physical awareness and cognitive awareness. We will explore the connection between body and mind. As we study and practice contemplative yoga and mindfulness techniques, we will build, strengthen, and develop lifelong tools for managing stress, promoting self-care, strengthening communication, and deepening compassion in consideration of multiple contexts.

This course is designed to introduce complete beginners to Malagasy culture and language, and to teach daily interaction skills. With a simultaneous focus on speaking, listening and reading, this course will give students a thorough foundation in Malagasy grammar: alphabets, basic words structures and basic sentence structures with examples and/or analogies from everyday settings in Madagascar and from real-world situations.

Elementary Turkish is designed to introduce basic Turkish language forms. They introduce the basic Turkish language and daily culture in modern-day Turkey. By the end of this course, students will attain the Novice High level according to ACTFL proficiency guidelines: ability to exchange greetings in appropriate settings, give basic information about self, name familiar objects.

Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: No previous formal instruction of French or Creole is required.