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2019/20 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5540M Developing Your Enterprise Potential

15 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Dr Stephen King
Email: sfk@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

Module replaces

LUBS5532M Enterprise Awareness

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module starts by exploring the student’s enterprise background and ambitions and then engages them with our network of entrepreneurs and businesses to help them further develop their own enterprise awareness, network, and skills.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will have an understanding of enterprise practice in an area of interest to them and relevant to their future plans. They will have developed networking skills, presentation skills, and skills in critical reflection on their enterprise experience, their enterprise plans and the activities of enterprises of interest to them. Specifically, students will be able to:

1. Apply and evaluate theory and practice in their own research, advanced scholarship or area of specific interest within the broader discipline
2. Develop professional relationships with potential collaborators, employers and/or clients
3. Creatively formulate, evaluate and communicate ideas to peers, tutors and others
4. Critically evaluate the potential of business activities to deliver negative social and environmental impacts
5. Be ethical and responsible in practice, drawing on effective appreciation and analysis of relevant ethical issues.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Critically reflect on their own enterprise background, experience and ambitions
- Comprehend and evaluate the practice of enterprise and entrepreneurship in an area of enterprise of interest to them
- Develop a network of contacts relevant to their enterprise ambitions
- Identify the next steps in their personal and professional development

Skills outcomes
Development of professionalism, networking skills, presentation skills, commercial awareness, self-management, ethical awareness and critical reflection.

Skills outcomes
- Professionalism
- Self-awareness


Syllabus

Indicative content:
- Appraisal of enterprise skills, interests and ambitions
- Raising awareness of market opportunities in areas of interest
- Developing professionalism and networking skills
- Academic skills, including critical thinking, business ethics and reflective writing
- Identification of enterprises to visit
- Enterprise visits (typically 3 per student across the year)
- Reflection on the visits and implications for the students’ plans and ambitions
- Accessing a wider network
- Career planning

Fortnightly workshops across semesters 1 and 2. Students will be grouped according to similar interest areas to enable customised learning e.g. marketing, technology, supply chain management, hotels and tourism etc. Connections will be made via the CEES network to enterprises and entrepreneurs working in these areas. Where a close match cannot be made students will engage with entrepreneurs in related areas. Students will visit the companies; they will meet the entrepreneur/founder and his/her team, observe the enterprise “in action”, and discuss their own plans and ambitions with the hosts. They will develop a Portfolio of notes and other materials from these visits and other enterprise activities they undertake during the year. They will reflect on and present the Portfolio in their final report together with a plan for their future career development.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Workshop83.0024.00
Fieldwork33.009.00
Private study hours117.00
Total Contact hours33.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)150.00

Private study

Students will undertake self-assessment regarding their enterprise potential and plans, and will also research the market/area of enterprise they are interested in. They will keep a reflective diary and develop a portfolio of notes and materials relevant to enterprise in practice (across the year). They will reflect on this portfolio and write a reflective report for their final assessment. They will also prepare a formative video presentation (mid-course).

They will engage with the literature on entrepreneurial characteristics and behaviours, on enterprise creation and growth, and on business networking.

They will also be expected to engage in additional practical, co-curricular learning/activities e.g. Career Centre appointments, student enterprise societies, voluntary work, meetings with SPARK and attending the SPARK workshops, attending local enterprise networking groups (e.g. meetup groups / Chamber of Commerce etc.)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will be able to discuss their progress in the fortnightly workshops and to contact the module leader via email at any time. The mid-course formative video presentation is timed to provide significant feedback that can help inform semester 2 learning. Students will have the opportunity to submit a draft final report for further formative feedback.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
ProjectCombined portfolio, reflection and career plan, 3,000 words100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/04/2019

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