2021/22 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS1890 Starting Your Own Business
10 creditsClass Size: 400
Module manager: Deema Refai
Email: d.refai@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2021/22
This module is mutually exclusive with
| LLLC0118 | Innovation and Enterprise |
This module is approved as a discovery module
Module summary
This module offers a blended theoretical & practical experience in setting-up and running a business. Its interactive sessions allow students to delve into the issues of creativity, idea generation, opportunity recognition and feasibility analysis, thus, enabling them to understand how to set the foundations of an entrepreneurial business model. Through various activities, students work towards exploring business opportunities, which allows them to learn about businesses, make decisions about various aspects related to those businesses, and be entrepreneurial.Objectives
This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and set foundations of entrepreneurial business models both independently and through various activities using, for example, videos, podcasts, reading and other online materials. Within workshops students will be provided with the opportunity to take what they have learnt online and put this into practice, during innovative and collaborative activities.Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Recognise and apply basic general small business management skills in the areas of idea generation, opportunity exploitation, competitive positioning and business modelling.
2. Identify and apply standard management practices
3. Recognise the underlying principles of how enterprises are created and run
Skills outcomes
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
1. Apply a range of key skills to Decision Making, Business modelling, Self-Directed Learning and Problem Solving
2. Employ functional concepts & operations in activities
Subject specific
3. Reflect on their own personal goals and values in relation to starting an enterprise
Syllabus
Indicative content:
- Understanding entrepreneurship and enterprise creation
- Employing creative tools to generate ideas and identify opportunities
- Assessing the feasibility of opportunities, including industry, market, product and entrepreneur feasibility
- Setting foundations of an entrepreneurial business model and pitching it to potential investors
Students will will engage in different activities that will support them in understanding how new ventures are formed and developed.
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Workshop | 5 | 2.00 | 10.00 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1.00 | 10.00 |
| Panel Session | 1 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Private study hours | 78.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 | ||
Private study
Discussion board Learning- 18 hours of online coursework & activities
Independent and private study
- 20 hours reading and activities
- 20 hours preparing assessed coursework
- 20 hours learning materials (online & offline)
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 | 2,500 word individual report + representation of a model relevant to the topic* | 100.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
*The module will embed a number of formative assessment tasks to help students work towards developing their assessments. The resit for this module will be 100% by 2,500 word report.
Reading list
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