EPN-V2

TEK2800 Technology Management Course description

  • Introduction

    The objective of the course is to strengthen students’ ability to contribute to and manage value creation in organisations. This is an introductory course covering key subjects that enable students to understand value creation, the operation of and challenges facing organisations. The intention is for students to gain a basic understanding of what an enterprise is and how it works. Key subjects covered in the course include management, strategy, finance, organisation and entrepreneurship.

  • Required preliminary courses

    No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

  • Learning outcomes

    After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

    Knowledge

    The student is capable of:

    • understanding how organisations create value
    • explaining key management and organisation principles
    • explaining and understanding the main elements of business economics
    • performing a basic interpretation and analysis of accounts and budgets
    • explaining key terms linked to innovation and entrepreneurship
    • identifying the possibilities and challenges associated with starting your own enterprise
    • explaining basic marketing terms

    Skills

    The student is capable of:

    • familiarising themselves with and understanding how an enterprise works
    • performing profitability analyses and assessing financial risk
    • devising a business or project plan
    • exercising awareness of an enterprise’s ethical challenges and corporate social responsibility

    General competence

    The student is capable of:

    • familiarising themselves with an enterprise and working life
    • addressing financial, ethical and social considerations
    • seeing the interdisciplinary context across an organisation
  • Teaching and learning methods

    Lectures, project work (individually or in groups [of max. four students]), supervision, presentations, exercises.

  • Course requirements

    The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

    Two compulsory assignments

      • Two submission of written assignments, each containing sub-submissions

  • Assessment

    Exam autumn 2021:

    1. Written project assignment of 20 pages +/- 10%, plus attachments and budget. The written project is submitted individually or in groups of up to 5 students (40%)
    2. Individual digital home exam, 1,5 hours (60%)

    Both parts of the exam must be awarded an E or better in order for the student to pass the course.

    The exam result can be appealed.

    New exam is only arranged in connection with the spring exam.

    Exam spring 2022:

    1. Written project assignment of 20 pages +/- 10%, plus attachments and budget. The written project is submitted individually or in groups of up to 5 students (40%)
    2. Individual written exam, 3 hours (60%)

    Both parts of the exam must be awarded an E or better in order for the student to pass the course.

    The exam result can be appealed.

    New exam is only arranged in connection with the spring exam.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    Aids autumn 2021:

    Part 1) All aids as long as the rules for source referencing are compiled with.

    Part 2) All aids allowed except communication and collaboration with others.

    Aids spring 2022:

    Part 1) All aids as long as the rules for source referencing are compiled with.

    Part 2) All hand written notes and books are allowed as long as the rules for source referencing are compiled with. A handheld calculator that cannot be used for wireless communication or to perform symbolic calculations. If the calculator’s internal memory can store data, the memory must be deleted before the exam. Random checks may be carried out.

  • Grading scale

    Grade scale A-F.

  • Examiners

    One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

  • Overlapping courses

    Emnet er ekvivalent (overlapper 10 studiepoeng) med: ELPE3800, DAPE3800, KJPE2800, MAPE2800, EMPE1801, BYPE1801, EMPE180.

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