Business and Entrepreneurship (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Objective

This course will open the student to the different possibilities of what entrepreneurship is and has to offer as a potential career. After the course, the student should understand what it means to be an entrepreneur, how a business is run and have a possibility to consider it as a potential career option for them.

Accomplishment methods

face-to-face lectures and visiting lecturers, exercises, final project in which you will develop a potential business idea further, either by yourself or in teams and acquire market feedback.

Content

The student will learn the basics of the business life cycle, what it takes to get from an idea to a business, what aspects are involved in running a day-to-day business, assess and understand different traits and skills related to being an entrepreneur as well as learn about different tools available for the entrepreneur to use in taking their business forward.

Location and time

Autumn 2023, classroom teaching

6.11
7.11
13.11
15.11
20.11
22.11
27.11
29.11
5.12
11.12

Materials

Provided on learning platform.

Teaching methods

Lectures in classroom, workshops, discussion, group exercises.