KD2000 Entrepreneurship in Art and Design Course description

The course employs a wide definition of entrepreneurship that includes personal development, creativity, self-reliance, initiative taking and action orientation, i.e. becoming entrepreneurial. The course aims to introduce students to practical entrepreneurship through an action-based approach to value creation. Students will work in teams to solve real-life challenges.

The course is a common course for the programme options Art and Dissemination and Fashion and Industry. It provides an introduction to business knowledge, innovation and project management in development processes relating to creative work.

The course facilitates internationalisation and is open to guest and exchange students with a relevant education at the same Level.

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

Knowledge

The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge of:

• project management processes, techniques and tools
• Design Thinking and/or other relevant creative development processes, techniques and tools
• professional practice in the art, design and cultural fields
• processes and methods used for entrepreneurial work and innovation of relevance to these fields
• ethical foundations within these fields
• information sources and support for business startups

Skills

The student is able to:

• utilize processes and methods and tools for innovative and creative work in teams
• identify and analyze information that is relevant to conducting an entrepreneurial project
• implement, execute, and follow up on a project within a specified deadline
• reflect on knowledge and experience from their own field and use it to develop business concepts
• reflect on their professional practice, teamwork competence, achieved results, and learning as a basis for their own ongoing development.

Competence

The student demonstrates competence of:

• planning and carrying out tasks independently and as part of a team
• entrepreneurial thinking
• leading themselves and others in different development projects
• using relevant forms of communication in an international context

The course employs a problem-based learning approach, which is supported by lectures and project tutoring. The project will be carried out as group work in teams of four to five students. The primary objective is to define, research, and conceptualize an entrepreneurial project.

Students will be introduced to theories and methods that are relevant to the course's scope. This will serve as preparation for active participation in the course's problem-based learning methods, which integrate theory and practice.

The group work entails knowledge sharing, collective decision-making, academic discussions, action coordination, and mutual critical feedback. Student groups will collaborate closely with their supervisors and external partners, such as organizations, businesses or other project groups.

Entrepreneurial projects may require standard contracts for student projects as provided by OsloMet.

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The course is assessed as a group portfolio exam.

In some cases, students can be instructed to deliver an individual exam.

The portfolio consists of:

1. The concept description for an entrepreneurial development project as a written project report with a scope of 3,000 - 4,000 words. The visual design is expected to communicate the projects identity.
2. A reflection on the group's teamwork, achievements and learning with a scope of 500 - 1000 words

3. Portfolio submissions from the course period documented as attachments:

   • team organization, roles and responsibilities
   • mission statement
   • project plan
   • prosess phases
   • sustainability concept
   • delivered pitches and presentations
   • collected background information and research

The exam can be appealed.

All forms of support materials are permitted.

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One internal examiner. A internal co-examiner evaluates a selection of the exams. External sensor is used regularly.

After completion of the course, the student will have acquired the following learning outcomes, arranged into the following categories: knowledge, skills and general competence.

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Knowledge

The student

• demonstrates insight into the multiplicity of deaf people's lives internationally, with a focus on transmissions within and between countries in the Global North and Global South
• can make connections between the historical development of transnational deaf spaces and the continuing significance of these spaces
• understands the mobility of ideas and peoples within transnational deaf networks and the role deaf people’s translanguaging practices play in these movements

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Skills

The student

• is able to utilize cultural, geographical, sociological and human rights perspectives to analyze phenomena taking place in global deaf worlds
• can engage in rudimentary signed discussion about course content with another student with whom they do not share a common signed language
• can use class content and activities to reflect on their own linguistic repertoire and languaging practices

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General competence

The student

• is able to engage in critical inquiry into ongoing developments in transnational interactions among deaf people and apply this to class assignments
• can identify transnational deaf spaces and explain how translanguaging affords navigations in such spaces

5. ECTS overlapping content toward KDM3200.