Entrepreneurship
Undergraduate | LTU-BUS3ENT | 2024
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 21 July 2024
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 29 July 2024
Price from
$2,040
Upfront cost
$0
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Entrepreneurship
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse the start-up formation process, examine the entrepreneurial qualities, and impact of the context and emerging trends.
- Critically analyse a business venture or opportunity by examining the offerings, processes and practices to achieve social and financial outcomes.
- Develop and apply entrepreneurship validation tools to justify the merit and values of an entrepreneurial idea or innovative solution to customer or business problems.
- Effectively communicate an entrepreneurial idea or solution in a professional manner to diverse audiences.
- Creative pursuit of innovative ideas
- Development & assessment of entrepreneurial opportunities
- Entrepreneurship validation tools (design thinking, lean startup, business model canvas)
- Managing key functions
- Contemporary approaches to types and contexts of entrepreneurship
This subject offers you the opportunity to use disciplinary knowledge and skills to start a business or resolve a business challenge. The subject attracts students from a range of fields, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to the researching, analysis and problem-solving aspects of the challenge. You will be required to design entrepreneurship validation tools aimed at creating sustainable value through the provision of a particular product or service to meet an identified market opportunity. The projects aim to enhance the well-being of your community or aim to solve a social, health, economic or environmental problem. The subject is designed to provide you with the opportunity to enhance, demonstrate and document work-ready skills appropriate to your chosen career path.
- Individual Entrepreneur Report (1,000 words) (20%)
- Individual Business Venture Analysis (1,300 words) (30%)
- Individual Business Model Development Report (2,200 words) (50%)
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- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 18
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-BUS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Business
- LAT-ART-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Arts
- LAT-PYS-DEG-2024 - Bachelor of Psychological Science
Equivalent subjects
You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.
LTU-BUS301 (Not currently available)
Others
Prerequisites: Student must have completed 180 credit points.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG