2020/21 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: 1 Jan to 31 May View Timetable

Year running 2020/21

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, 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:

- 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

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module 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. Validate their own opinions on relevant ethical issues

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

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 (in person or online)
- Reflection on the visits and implications for the students’ plans and ambitions

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	8	3.00	24.00
Fieldwork	2	3.00	6.00
Guest lecture	1	2.00	2.00
Private study hours			118.00
Total Contact hours			32.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

This could include a variety of activities, such as reading, watching videos, question practice and exam preparation.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Your teaching methods could include a variety of delivery models, such as face-to-face teaching, live webinars, discussion boards and other interactive activities. There will be opportunities for formative feedback throughout the module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	3,000 word individual report	100.00
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: 12/08/2020 14:18:03

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