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eChallenge
UndergraduateUAD-ENT3900OUA2025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 18 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Feb 2025,
- 26 May 2025,
- 8 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $2,000
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
eChallenge
About this subject
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and evaluate a potential entrepreneurial opportunity using a systematic process.
- Determine a practical resource strategy to exploit the opportunity in an innovative manner.
- Build an effective entrepreneurial team to develop strategies to exploit the entrepreneurial opportunity.
- Communicate and present the new entrepreneurial venture to relevant stakeholders including investors.
- Replicate the process of assessing the viability of entrepreneurial opportunities for future endeavours.
- Module 1: RELATE: Ideas, Innovation and Opportunities
- Module 2: RELATE: Strengths and Customer Identification
- Module 3: RELATE: Needs Assessment and Communication Skills
- Module 4: INNOVATE: Creating Value and Business Modelling
- Module 5: INNOVATE: Speed Dating with Mentors
- Module 6: INNOVATE: Prototyping
- Module 7: INNOVATE: Marketing
- Module 8: TEST: Getting and Applying Feedback
- Module 9: TEST: Market Evaluation and Financing Your Venture
- Module 10: TEST: Value Re-positioning
- Module 11: EXPAND: Pitch Coaching
- Module 12: EXPAND: Pitching
Systematically assessing the viability of your ideas is an integral requirement for any career path - not only for those embarking an entrepreneurial career. Evidence suggests that your time at University is one of the best times to gain this experience.
The eChallenge is a course designed to offer you a chance to perceive ideas from the perspective of pain experienced by or gain obtained by customers, develop innovative solutions using creative strategies, test ideas by interacting with customers, mentors and industry practitioners, and finally pitch ideas to a panel of investors from industry. Building your network during the industry interactions is an added benefit.
The course is the first step into entrepreneurship for many who have gone on to great entrepreneurial endeavours, as well as an enriching personal learning experience for all.
All assessment is assignment based.
- Landscape Assessment (30%)
- Empathy Interviews (30%)
- The Pitch (30%)
- Reflective Portfolio (10%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- UAD-INB-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of International Business
- UAD-HSM-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Service Management
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Headphones or speakers (required to listen to lectures and other media). Headset, including microphone (highly recommended). Webcam (may be required for participation in virtual classrooms and/or presentations).
- Software requirements - It is essential for students to have reliable internet access in order to participate in and complete your units. MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning environment. MyUni provides access to various features including announcements, course materials, discussion boards and assessments.
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.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of International Business
UndergraduateUAD-INB-DEG
Bachelor of Health Service Management
UndergraduateUAD-HSM-DEG