Entrepreneurship and Business Operations (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

The classes will take place on Wednesdays, 11:00-13:45. The breaks and pauses will be agreed at each calss with the students.
The first two sessions, Wednesday August 24 and August 31 are planned as online sessions (Zoom). Contact sessions are nevertheless plamnned for most of the course time-line. The firs contact session on Campus is scheduled for September 7.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Implementation Methods:
CONTACT / CONTACT BLENDED
ONLINE / ONLINE BLENDED
VIRTUAL / VIRTUAL INSTRUCTED / VIRTUAL NONSTOP
DEMO
WORKSTUDY

Descriptions of the implementation methods can be found on Haaga-Helia’s website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/implementation-types

You can complete the course by demonstrating your skills or through accreditation, even if there are no DEMO or WORKSTUDY implementations available. More details about skill recognition are available on Haaga-Helia’s website: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/career-planning/recognition-learning

If you already possess the knowledge and skills covered in this course, you can demonstrate your proficiency.

DEMONSTRATING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THIS COURSE

The demonstration takes place in Moodle, through a specific implementation, for which you register in Peppi. (You can identify the correct implementation by its DEMO format.) Once registered in Peppi, the teacher will approve your enrollment, granting you access to the Moodle workspace for the implementation.

The demonstration tasks must be completed before the end of the implementation. You cannot participate in other implementations of the course at the same time.

Contents of the demonstration:

Moodle exam covering key entrepreneurship and business concepts and knowledge (20 time-restricted questions). Assessment is graded on a scale of 0–5, with the exam contributing 30% to the final demonstration grade.

Report/Presentation detailing and analyzing your own entrepreneurial skills and networks, along with a description and analysis of a selected company and its business operations. Assessment is graded on a scale of 0–5, with this task contributing 70% to the final demonstration grade.

More information of demonstrating prior knowledge can be found here: https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/career-planning/recognition-learning.

Intro

In this course, you will explore entrepreneurship, its opportunities, and how to become an entrepreneur. You will reflect on your own potential for entrepreneurship. You will also study business, including its environment, strategy, and responsibility. You will learn to create a business model and use key business concepts with an existing company.

Materials

The students will work with a variety of sources, including media sources, peer-reviewed academic articles, and text books. The students will contribute to the choice of the sources, based on the topics they choose for their course assignments.

Teaching methods and instruction

The instruction will be offered both on Campus and online. The learning methods will include lectures, guest lectures, self-studies, team work and individual work in class, working with literature sources, practice-oriented activities, research and development activities.

Working life connections

The course will include guest lecturers and require students to maintain connections with the worklife through their course work.

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

The course offers submission and assessment time-lines which need to be respected. A certain flexibility can be accepted based on students' situations. The course does not have an exam.

Internationality

The instruction language is English, the course material will align with global diversity of entrepreneurship contexts, The class is an international class, with team work that will enable cross-cultural communication.

Completion alternatives

Should the student be entitled to and requesting an alternative implementation, such requests need to be forwarded to the instructor within one week of the course's starting day.

Learning assignments

Assignment 1 Business models and operations - teamwork; presentation 25%
Assignment 2 Entrepreneurship today - teamwork; literature review, written report 25%
Assignment 3 Business idea proposal - individual work, recorded video presentation 50%

Assessment methods

The assessment (Assignment 1, 2, 3) will constitute the course's assessment. Grade scale 1-5. Each assignment will follow and pre-agreed assessment model, discussed with the students in the beginning of the course.