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2021/22 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LLLC0196 Innovation and Enterprise

40 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: George Zifkos
Email: G.zifkos@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2021/22

Module replaces

LLLC 0194 and LLLC 0118

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module will help you to develop the skills and knowledge that you will need to apply innovative and creative problem-solving skills within an organisational context. You will also develop strategies and techniques for managing learning at degree level throughout the development of academic, professional and inter-personal skills

Objectives

The objectives of this module are to:
1. Develop the skills and knowledge that are needed to apply innovative and creative problem-solving skills within an organisational context.
2. Develop strategies and techniques for managing learning at degree level throughout the development of academic, professional and inter-personal skills.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Research and produce written work using academic conventions
2. Explain the role of creativity and innovation within contemporary enterprise
3. Apply relevant processes and skills involved in creating and launching a new enterprise
4. Apply reflective practice in order to evidence academic, professional and inter-personal development.

Skills outcomes
Being Digital: This module will develop Critical Evaluation, Collaboration, Communication and Identity and Wellbeing


Syllabus

Indicative content for the module:

Entrepreneurship & The Entrepreneur
Nurturing Creativity and Innovation
Enterprise contexts
New Venture Creation & Feasibility Study
Legal Considerations
The Business Plan
Financial Planning
Searching for sources and using Leeds Harvard Academic conventions
Academic style and writing
Constructing arguments and being critical

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Lecture113.0033.00
Seminar111.0011.00
Independent online learning hours44.00
Private study hours312.00
Total Contact hours44.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)400.00

Private study

• Reading and research for assignments: 100 hours
• Critical reflection on practice: 60 hours
• Seminar preparation: 22 hours
• Reading/research and preparation for assignment: 130 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Through regular workshops and tutorials, monitoring of student contributions and the staged submission of formative assessment.
Formative feedback for an essay outline/plan will be given 2 weeks before the submission
An outline of the proposed presentation can be submitted 2 weeks before the submission date for tutor guidance and comments
There will be an opportunity for formative feedback on one section of the reflective blog.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Essay1,000 words20.00
Reflective log1,500 words30.00
PresentationGroup Presentation - 45 minutes50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Resit for the essay will be on a different topic. Resit for the Group Presentation will not be a group presentation, but an individual one on a topic that meets LO’s 2&3 Resit for the Reflective Blog will remain the same whereby the student demonstrates that they have utilised the feedback given by tutors

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 09/07/2021 15:01:40

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