Master's Degree Programme in Entrepreneurship Programme description

The master’s degree programme in entrepreneurship is a two-year extension of a three-year bachelor's degree programme. The programme is an interdisciplinary full-time programme of study taught in English and Norwegian, where the student acquires the knowledge, skills and general competence required for entrepreneurial activities at both a practical and a theoretical level. After completing the programme, students are awarded a master’s degree in entrepreneurship and qualify for admission to relevant PhD programmes.

The master's programme is designed as a Value Creation Programme where students learn through creating new value for others. This value can be financial, cultural or social, and is anchored in a broad definition of entrepreneurship that includes intrapreneurship (creating value internally in companies or the public sector) and social entrepreneurship (focusing on creating social value in NGOs/non-profits, organisations and ventures) as well as traditional entrepreneurial activities (starting a commercial venture). Therefore the pedagogical approach of this programme differs from traditional master's level programmes in its strong emphasis on insight into entrepreneurial processes achieved through practical experience.

Students completing this programme will acquire entrepreneurial competence that will enable them to start their own ventures as well as finding employment as change agents within private and/or public enterprises or NGOs. Entrepreneurial competence enables students to act upon opportunities and ideas to create value for others. Entrepreneurial skills enable students to act and adapt when exposed to situations with a high degree of uncertainty. Entrepreneurial abilities such as creativity, leadership, communication, critical thinking and flexibility are often termed 21st century competencies, and these competencies have been identified as crucial to succeed in future work life.

The programme aims to attract highly motivated and capable students who seek a combination of practical and theoretical entrepreneurship education at master's level. The target group for the programme is students with a capacity to hard work and a desire to create something new and of value for others. Under the close supervision and guidance of faculty and other professionals, the students are challenged theoretically, practically, and personally.

Students should be eager to question the way challenges in society are currently solved. This may include how digitalisation can make the public and private sectors more efficient, how we can reach the UN sustainable development goals or how society should best tackle an aging population. It is important that enrolled students actively seek to challenge themselves and be willing to step outside their comfort zone, create new solutions, and be able to tackle a high degree of uncertainty. Students are not required to have an idea or entrepreneurial experience in advance. However, qualities such as initiative, solution orientation, eagerness to learn and motivation to work hard are emphasised.

Det obligatoriske emnet Innføring i journalistikk- og medieforskning skal forberede studentene til forskningsarbeid innen journalistikk. Emnet gir en breddeoversikt over sentrale forskningsfelt- og tradisjoner innen faget og profesjonen journalistikk, samt ferdigheter i å finne og anvende sentrale teorier og forskning for journalistikkfaget. Slik gir emnet sammen med emnet MJ4020 Innføring i forskningsmetode en felles plattform for alle masterstudentene på programmet før de spesialiserer seg i enkeltemner og arbeid med masteroppgaven.

Etter gjennomført emne skal studenten ha oppnådd følgende læringsutbytte

Kunnskap

Studenten

• har kunnskap om sentrale teoretiske perspektiver i journalistikk- og medieforskningen
• har kunnskap om journalistikk- og medieforskningens utvikling og sentrale forskningsbidrag
• har kunnskap om ulike vitenskapsteoretiske syn
• har inngående kunnskap om teorier og forskning knyttet til journalistisk praksis

Ferdigheter

Studenten

• kan finne, anvende og kritisk diskutere sentrale teorier og forskning i journalistikk- og mediefaget.
• kan utforme en problemstilling for et journalistfaglig forskningsprosjekt

Generell kompetanse

Studenten

• kan vurdere andres forskningsarbeid kritisk
• har avansert forståelse av journalistikkfagets egenart og utfordringer
• kan arbeide selvstendig med praktisk og teoretisk problemløsning

Courses consist of lectures, seminars and practical work. In addition, workshops and discussion groups are offered to facilitate and stimulate learning. Written work requirements are intended to develop reflective, argumentative and critical responses to the curriculum and lectures, as well as to acquire writing skills at post-graduate level. Oral presentations and discussions develop discursive skills, whilst specialisation in an area of research promotes scholarly and independent learning. The students will also be required to attend several hackathons or similar seminars or events with external stakeholders.

The teaching method relies on practical training, since there is a consensus among several scholars within entrepreneurship that entrepreneurship education should be based on experiential learning. Moreover, experiential learning enables students to experience what it is like to be an entrepreneur prior to reflecting on theory offered through the foundational entrepreneurship courses in the programme.

Learning process

• Faculty have a close professional relationship with the students and take on a facilitating role.
• Students take action, experiment and iterate through and with real ventures/projects in the value creation process. This gives students a high degree of responsibility for the process of learning by doing.
• Students learn to act first, then reflect, react, readjust and then act again.

Incubation

All students are offered access to incubator programmes. An important function of incubator programmes is to provide a space where students can sit and work on their ventures or projects.

Incubator programme will be in contact with startups to enhance the learning community and to share resources and spaces, and the choice of incubator programmes is based on the students' needs and the nature of their ventures or projects.

Mentorship

Internal and external mentors contribute to the delivery of the programme and serve as support mechanisms for the students and for the programme.

Mentors contribute to the programme in a variety of ways. First, they serve as role models for the students while bringing in up-do-date and relevant experience and second they help develop students’ ventures by providing support, advice and access to networks and mentoring them on pressing issues. Teaching methods

The master’s programme in entrepreneurship at OsloMet combines student-centred and teacher-centred teaching and working methods. There is also an overlap between them, where student-centred methods are also teacher-led.

Teaching methods include:

• Lectures
• Workshops (both faculty and industry)
• Game-based learning
• Inquiry-based learning (where teachers are available for questions)
• Expeditionary learning (out of the building and explore)
• Flipped classroom
• Group/individual mentoring (linked to business)
• Coaching (personalised learning)
• Cases with teacher-led discussions
• Group work and collaboration between students
• Experiments, iterations, prototyping and hypothesis testing
• Participation in real-life seminars and events with external stakeholders, e.g. hackathons
• Guest speakers

OsloMet uses Canvas, a cloud-based learning platform that facilitates student-active forms of work and teaching and serves as the university's channel of communication with its students.

Vurderingsformen er en individuell, skriftlig 5-dagers hjemmeeksamen. Lengde: ca 8-10 sider.

Alle hjelpemidler er tillatt så lenge regler for kildehenvisning følges.

Vurderingsuttrykket er en gradert skala med fem trinn fra A til E for bestått og F for ikke bestått. Kandidater som ikke består eller har gyldig fravær ved ordinær eksamen, kan fremstille seg til ny og utsatt eksamen. Vurderingsformen vil da være den samme som ved ordinær eksamen.