BUS3000 : Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

  • Offered for Year: 2012
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Simon Down, Miss Deborah McLean
  • Owning School: Newcastle University Business School
Semesters
Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
Semester 2 Credit Value: 10

Aims

This module provides an integrated approach to the study of enterprise and entrepreneurship. The module aims to provide students with the ability to analyse enterprise and understand entrepreneurship using a wide range of management, organisation studies and social science concepts and theories. The module focuses on the conceptual and theoretical aspects of enterprise and entrepreneurship as an applied field, rather than practical and technical aspects.

Outline Of Syllabus

1. Introduction to the module
2. The study of enterprise who is studying what and where and how
3. Enterprising entities economics and the firm
4. Essay writing lecture
5. Enterprising entities the entrepreneurial self
6. Economic context of enterprise
7. Entrepreneuring in a corporate environment
8. Regulation and small firms
9. Essay surgery/assessment workshop
10. Essay surgery/assessment workshop
11. Essay surgery/assessment workshops
12. Essay surgery/assessment workshops
13. Political contexts of enterprise
14. Managing in enterprising entities
15. Working in enterprising entities
16. Reflecting on practice
17. Social contexts of enterprise 1
18. Social contexts of enterprise 2
19 Entertainment
20 Module conclusion
21 Exam revision session/small group work within lecture
22 Exam revision session/small group work within lecture
23 Exam revision session/small group work within lecture
24 Exam revision session/small group work within lecture

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Academic Staff Contact Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion164:0064:000:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture361:0036:0036:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyDirected research and reading150:0050:000:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study150:0050:000:00N/A
Total200:0036:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The lectures, assessment workshops and revisions sessions (including small group work within lectures) will be used to introduce the students to the main theories and debates around enterprise and will introduce an integrating framework to synthesize these debates. A critical approach will be taken in the lectures to demonstrate to students how a critical social science approach can be taken to the study of enterprise.

Assessment Methods

Exams
Description Length Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Written Examination902A50N/A
Exam Resits
Description Length When Set Percentage Resit Available Off Campus Comment
Written Examination90A100N/A
Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay1M502,000 words.
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

A coursework essay enables students to focus on an area within the syllabus of particular interest to them. The exam will test students' knowledge of the subject. Short answer questions enable an assessment of their ability to critically engage with a wide range of the subject material.

Reading Lists

Timetable

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