Design entrepreneurship (5 cr)
Code: MU00DT25-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 08.11.2021 - 21.11.2021
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 10.01.2022 - 27.04.2022
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 3 cr
- Virtual portion
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Culture
- Campus
- Kouvola Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 50 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Bioproduct Design
- Degree Programme in Graphic Design
- Degree Programme in Fashion and Costume Design
- Degree Programme in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design
- Teachers
- Anu Vainio
- Sabine Suorsa
- Iida Silvennoinen
- Teacher in charge
- Sabine Suorsa
- Groups
-
MPKV20KPMuoti ja puvustus, päivätoteutus
- Course
- MU00DT25
Objective
- You identify the significance of entrepreneurship as a career alternative in the field of design.
- You identify and assess the possibilities offered by the changing environment and various networks to develop your own entrepreneurship.
- You can commercialise and market your product or service idea. You identify the risks of entrepreneurship and can prepare for them.
- You can make the official announcements required to establish a company.
Content
- What skills and qualities does an entrepreneur need?
- How do you create a business idea?
- How is the idea turned into a marketable product, and how is it commercialised and marketed?
- What is a feasible business idea based on?
- How do you analyse the market?
- What kind of calculations are needed before starting entrepreneurship?
- How do you design customer-oriented marketing?
- What are the risks of entrepreneurship and how do you plan risk management?
- What practical actions are needed to start a business?
Evaluation
Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts proficiently
- manage appropriate methods of information search
- carry out interrelated tasks fluently
- justify their actions in customer, user and target group situations
- apply the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field
- show skills in managing team work
- apply the ethical principles of the professional field according to the situation
Course material
Available in Learn platform.
Study forms and methods
Xamk offers its students an opportunity to pursue studies flexibly to suit their various life situations. Students can choose between three learning routes: a learning route based on a working week, a learning route that accelerates the studies, and a work-based learning route.
A learning route based on a working week according to timetable.
RDI and work-related cooperation
Possible working life oriented excercise, in which assignment from external cooperation company.
Student workload
5cr is 135h where contact teaching is 70h and independence working is 65h
Further information
Learning tasks which are related to the subject will be carried out in the study module.
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Student's self-reflection and peer evaluation
Evaluation of learning exercise
Active participation