2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS7001 Year in Enterprise

120 creditsClass Size: 10

Module manager: Isla Kapasi
Email: I.Kapasi@leeds.ac.uk

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

Year running 2019/20

Pre-requisite qualifications

120 credits passes at level 1, with an average grade of at least 50, plus at least 100 credits passed at level 2

This module is mutually exclusive with

CSER8000	Work Placement Year
LUBS8001	Training in the Workplace
LUBS8003	Year in Research
LUBS9001	Year Abroad

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Are you interested in taking a year to work on your own business? The Leeds Enterprise Centre (LEC) is offering five places on a "Year in Enterprise" for students currently in their penultimate year (typically second year) who have a workable business plan and wish to spend a year developing their business before returning to complete their studies. The year would begin late August/Early September and last for 9-12 months. The year works in the same way as a work placement year, and you would return to complete your degree the following September. The opportunity is available to all students who are eligible for either CSER8000 or LUBS8001 (or home faculty equivalent) work placement years. If you are successful you will remain a Leeds student for the year whilst taking time away from your studies to develop your own business.

Objectives

This module aims to provide student with the skills and knowledge to enable them to Identify viable business opportunities; prepare and present a business plan that demonstrates growth of a start-up business; and mobilise resources and build networks in order to achieve business objectives.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Develop and describe how entrepreneurial knowledge, concepts and theories learnt at University are actively applied in ‘real-world’ business practice
- Identify, self-evaluate and seek written 360 degree evaluations on their entrepreneurial, current and future competence in employability skills, plus overall professionalism
- Critically analyse and comment upon the impact of key global and cultural insights and increased ethical awareness as a result of experiences
- Communicate and present their skills, knowledge and learnings from the programme in written assessments, including in documents to be seen by prospective employers (e.g. in: CVs, application forms and at interviews and in assessment centres etc.)
- Explore and explain their future potential to graduate with the self-awareness, skills and knowledge required to set up and or expand a business for the benefit business and society

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will, in addition to developing specific knowledge outcomes relating to their field of interest, have developed transferable skills in the following key areas:
- Self-management and development
- Task Management
- Communication and working with and relating to others
- The social context of business and making ethical decisions
- Knowledge application (including knowledge gained from their degree programme)
- Application of initiative to work problems
- Reflection on their own learning outcomes

Syllabus

Indicative content
To be agreed by arrangement with the student, Year in Enterprise Academic Tutor and the student's Supervisor within the overall objectives outlined above. There will be additional opportunities for students to attend practical/skill based sessions around the basics of e.g. business finance, marketing through extracurricular SPARK courses (run by the Careers Centre) and to also participate in relevant LEC modules (without receiving additional credit).

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Visit	1	2.00	2.00
Consultation	12	1.00	12.00
Placement	1	1,186.00	1,186.00
Private study hours			0.00
Total Contact hours			1,200.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			1,200.00

Private study

Placement hours include business development, private study/reading and individual research, analysis and writing in preparation of portfolio.
Learning & teaching methods:
- Students will receive at least 1 work placed visit by a Year in Enterprise Academic Tutor
- Consultations with Supervisor will take the form of 12 x 1 hour (1 per month) by email/phone/discussion board/vle contact and will consist of setting/evaluation of business objectives

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will each have:
1) An academic tutor that will monitor/assist completion of the assessed elements of the module - online, through the VLE and who will also complete the 'in placement' visit;
2) A supervisor (academic member of staff) who will support the setting and achieving of their business objectives through meeting with each student once a month (face-to-face or through Skype); and
3) A business mentor who will be able to give advice on general business development - to meet on an ad hoc basis.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Reflective essay of 2,000 words	50.00
Portfolio	Assessment for students will be a portfolio including copies of monthly reflective logs, skill assessment documents and supporting evidence gained from business development activities. BOTH elements must be passed	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

BOTH elements must be passed. The resit for this module will be 100% by coursework- resubmission of portfolio.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 05/08/2019

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