ØAADM3820 Entrepreneurial Mindset, Resilience, and Long-Term Success Emneplan

This course equips students with the tools and perspectives to develop a resilient and adaptive mindset that supports long-term success in business and life. Drawing from research on entrepreneurship, psychology, and management, students learn how attitudes toward opportunity, uncertainty, and failure shape outcomes. Through case studies, reflective exercises, and applied discussions, students explore how to turn setbacks into growth and build durable personal and professional strategies.

Language of instruction is English

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After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• explain key concepts related to mindset, resilience, and attitudes in the context of long-term success
• describe theoretical perspectives on entrepreneurial mindset, growth mindset, and resilience
• identify the role of failure and recovery in personal and organisational development

Skills

The student can

• analyse real-world cases of success and failure, identifying the mindset and contextual factors that shaped outcomes
• apply reflective practices to examine personal attitudes toward risk, failure, and opportunity
• develop strategies for resilience and adaptive growth relevant to studies, careers, and entrepreneurial pursuits.

General competence

The student can

• critically reflect on success narratives, including hidden costs, trade-offs, and survivorship bias
• demonstrate awareness of how attitudes and mindset influence long-term achievement in professional and personal contexts
• communicate insights clearly in writing, using relevant theories and case evidence.

The course utilises student-active teaching and learning methods. This includes Interactive lectures where students will be expected to engage in discussions around the courses key themes, case study discussions in groups and plenum. As well as reflective exercises outside of lectures, and where possible guest lectures from practitioners.

The teaching takes place with in-person attendance on campus.

The following coursework requirements must have been approved for the student to take the exam:

• Coursework 1: 70% attendance and participation in classes. Students with attendance below 70% will not be offered an alternative course requirement
• Coursework 2: Submission of short reflection note to support exam preparation. Approximately 800 words. The coursework is completed individually.

The aim of the coursework requirements is to ensure that students establish a solid foundation in preparation for the portfolio submission.

The students must hand in their coursework in English.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline before the student may take the exam. If the coursework requirement is not approved, the student will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version within an extended deadline.

The exam in the course consists of one portfolio made up of two parts:

• 1) Reflective Part: Personal reflection on core course topics. Approximately 800 words and can be based on previously submitted coursework requirement. If the previously submitted coursework requirement is used, it must be a revised and substantially reworked version before submitting it for the portfolio.
• 2) Final Essay Part: Individual paper on the student’s strategy for resilience and long-term success, integrating theory, cases, and personal reflection. Approximately 2000 words.

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In the event of a fail grade, all parts of the portfolio must be resubmitted. Students awarded a fail grade are given one opportunity to submit an improved version of the portfolio for assessment.

The students must write their exams in English.

All aids are permitted, as long as the student follows the rules for examinations, source use and referencing, and OsloMet's guidelines for using artificial intelligence (AI) in student assignments.

Grade scale A - F

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner

At least 25 % of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Matthew Lynch