DATA3300 Entrepreneurship in practice Course description

Gradert skala A-F.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:  

• 3 individual written assignments submitted digitally, each with a maximum length of 6000 characters, including spaces. References are to be included in the 6000 characters.

None beyond general admission requirements.

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Knowledge:

• Possess knowledge about different forms of entrepreneurship
• Understand key concepts related to entrepreneurship
• Be aware of available financial sources for start-up companies
• Possess knowledge about different factors that affect the process from idea to start-up business
• Know different types of surveys and analysis that can be used in a business plan to assess the potential of a start-up company.

Skills:

• Develop simple business models and a business plan
• Conduct simple market research
• Carry out patent applications and "freedom to operate"-analysis

General competence:

• Carry out minor analysis of existing and planned start-up companies
• Understand the connection between innovation and entrepreneurship
• Understand how different factors affect the entrepreneurial process

Lectures and tutorials. The student works individually and in groups (two to four students).

None.

Portfolio assessment with the following portfolio requirements:

• A group project (2-4 students)
• An individual project

For the portfolio assessment, a comprehensive assessment is given with one final grade. Exam results can be appealed. In the case of a postponed examination, a different form of examination may also be proposed and used or a new assignment with a new deadline will be given. If an oral examination is used, its final grade cannot be appealed.

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401, MALK4000-403, MALKA211, MALKA212, and MALKA214 or equivalent must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA215.

On successful completion of the course the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe and discuss radical behaviorism as a philosophy of science
• describe and discuss important aspects of verbal behavior
• describe and discuss verbal governance and contingency shaping of behavior  
• describe and discuss principles involved in joint Control
• describe and discuss important aspects of stimulus equivalence
• describe and discuss the naming hypothesis
• describe and discuss Relational Frame Theory
• describe and discuss problem-solving, thinking, remembering, and higher-order classes of behavior

Skills

The student can

• analyze variables influencing complex human behavior

In the BSCA specialisation, campus-based lectures, discussion from readings, exercises and Interteaching are the main teaching methods. Literature from the curriculum for the Interteaching sequences are announced at the university’s digital learning platform. In the BSII specialisation, the main teaching method is digital course sequences, and feedback on details of course content, and supervised discussion groups will be available during pre-determined time periods. Feedback on written assignments is used in both specialisations.