Description
This module is a new initiative to deepen the engagement of final year students with the enterprise agenda, encouraging them to think about how they can develop enterprising behaviours, mind-sets and skills, and to examine and participate within the relationship between being enterprising and entrepreneurship. For this 20 credit option, students will be introduced to the principles of becoming an enterprising individual and progress to developing their entrepreneurial skills in groups through research, business plan creation and a pitch of the business plan.
An Enterprising and Entrepreneurial mind-set and skill-suite in graduates are highly prized by employers globally and will become essential in ensuring our students are able to compete at a high level within the graduate labour market. In addition, this module supports the University’s strategic framework of encouraging our students to become:
- Enterprising, creative and transformative thinkers
- Effective problem solvers and communicators
- Globally and locally culturally aware
- Responsible and ethical citizens
- Confident and flexible life-long learners
- Resilient and effective leaders
By the end of the module students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding of entrepreneurial skills in practice.
- Apply entrepreneurial skills in the production of a business plan.
- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in collaborative group projects.
- Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to an audience.
- Engage reflexively in an independent learning environment.
Assessment
- Presentation (30%)
- Group Assessment - Coursework (50%)
- Self-reflection Essay : Coursework (20%)