Course Description
GetVirtual Business Assistance, CRWN 95
Community service-oriented class that provides supervised learning experiences where students reflect on, communicate, and integrate principles and theories from the classroom in real-world settings. Service learning provides students with an opportunity to integrate their academic coursework with community involvement. Students are paired with industry experts as mentors and gain valuable practical skills such as interview practices and delivering real solutions to local businesses suffering from the new world COVID-19 paradigm.
Waitlisting for enrollment is by permission of the instructor. To seek permission, email Nada Miljkovic to request permission and describe previous training you have that is relevant to entrepreneurship, marketing or graphic design.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Santa Cruz, Crown College
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General Education: Elective units
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General Education: TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Sixth - None
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General Education: PR-S
More About The Course
Crown 95 is a community service oriented class that provides supervised learning experiences where students reflect on, communicate, and integrate principles and theories from the classroom in real-world settings. Service learning provides students with an opportunity to integrate their academic coursework with community involvement. The goal of this educational approach is for students to gain valuable practical skills while giving back to the community.
Crown 95 teaches students basic business development, customer discovery, and the entrepreneurial mindset. Students are trained in the use of agile iterative product design processes, including the lean startup and design thinking methodologies and apply to deliver real solutions to local businesses suffering economic fallout.
This hands-on service course is designed to help local firms while teaching students how to directly work with small businesses. The course is structured around the delivery of an optimized website for the businesses and social media marketing campaign to accompany its launch. Students are trained on all the necessary steps to bring a business enhancement project to completion. They shadow a few intake calls and client assessment interviews with the Instructor and/or community mentors.
As a team, the students decide which businesses to take on and the possible solutions. An account manager is assigned to lead the project. The account manager writes up a proposal, forms a team to execute the scope of work or create an onboarding sheet for the next class cohort to complete.
Course Creators
Yuliya Monastyrska
Nada Miljkovic
Nada Miljkovic is a multi-disciplinary educator, artivist (artist/activist) and project manager for UCSC's Center for Innovation and Entreprenuerial Development (CIED). Nada teaches the ethics of emerging technologies, digital storytelling, and entrepreneurship courses at UCSC. She is the co-founder and CEO of GetVirtual. She is deeply committed to her community and is the chair of United Services Agency. She is an organizer of TEDxSantaCruz, and hosts weekly live radio interview shows on KSQD and podcast. She has a BS in Construction Management and BA in Philosophy from Purdue University, as well as a Masters in Fine Arts in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Digital Arts. In her previous career, she was a construction project manager specializing in train stations and bridges and was a Caltrans highway inspector. She lives in Santa Cruz with her multi-generational cross-species family.
Nada Miljkovic is a multi-disciplinary educator, artivist (artist/activist) and project manager for UCSC's Center for Innovation and Entreprenuerial Development ( CIED ). Nada teaches the ethics of emerging technologies, digital storytelling, and entrepreneurship courses at UCSC. She is the co-founder and CEO of GetVirtual . She is deeply committed to her community and is the chair of ...Nada Miljkovic is a multi-disciplinary educator, artivist (artist/activist) and project manager for UCSC's Center for Innovation and Entreprenuerial Development (CIED). Nada teaches the ethics of emerging technologies, digital storytelling, and entrepreneurship courses at UCSC. She is the co-founder and CEO of GetVirtual. She is deeply committed to her community and is the chair of United Services Agency. She is an organizer of TEDxSantaCruz, and hosts weekly live radio interview shows on KSQD and podcast. She has a BS in Construction Management and BA in Philosophy from Purdue University, as well as a Masters in Fine Arts in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Digital Arts. In her previous career, she was a construction project manager specializing in train stations and bridges and was a Caltrans highway inspector. She lives in Santa Cruz with her multi-generational cross-species family.
