Business and entrepreneurship in wellbeing (5 cr)

Objective

You can assess the role and potential of entrepreneurship in society.
You can demonstrate your familiarity with and explain the opportunities for entrepreneurship offered by digital society.
You can describe what the operations and processes of enterprises involve.
You can compare the forms of business ownership in different situations.
You can demonstrate your familiarity with the main stakeholder groups of enterprises.

Content

What is the role of businesses and entrepreneurship in society?
What opportunities does digital society offer for entrepreneurship?
What characteristics and knowledge is expected from an entrepreneur?
How does an enterprise operate and what are the operational processes of enterprises?
What aspects must be considered when deciding the form of businesses?
What are the key interest groups and the main stakeholder groups?
How is a business plan created?

Evaluation

Students can
use professional vocabulary systematically
look for information in the key information sources of the field
use the key models, methods and techniques of the professional field
work as team members in a goal-oriented way

Course material

Materials will be announced in Learn. All the materials are available online.

Timing of exams and assignments

The course contains both individual assignments as well as group work assignments. The schedule of the assignments will be announced in Learn.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Both individual assignments and group assignments are evaluated.

The basis for evaluation is:

Students can
- use professional vocabulary systematically
- look for information in the key information sources of the field
- identify interrelated tasks
- use the key models, methods and techniques of the professional field
- work as team members in a goal-oriented way

Assessment criteria equals to grade 3.