Overview

This unit will introduce students to entrepreneurship and develop an entrepreneurial mindset and explore opportunities. The unit examines the entrepreneurial process and the contexts in which it can be applied, including startups, corporations (intrapreneurship) and the social sector. Key objectives are to introduce students to entrepreneurship by putting their knowledge into practice, through activities and assessments that require them to think like an entrepreneur.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Winter
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
17-June-2024
28-July-2024
Last self-enrolment date
17-June-2024
Census date
28-June-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-July-2024
Results released date
13-August-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Understand and explain various forms of entrepreneurship and their application in Australian and global contexts
  • Identify characteristics of ideas and opportunities and analyse strengths and weaknesses in the process of transforming an idea into an opportunity
  • Explore characteristics, mindset and skills of entrepreneurs and reflect on how this can be applied in their own situation
  • Work collaboratively to explore and interpret challenges of entrepreneurial ventures

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 40 - 60% 1,2,3 
ProjectGroup 40 - 60% 1,2,4 

Content

  • Investigate entrepreneurship as a concept and within a range of fields
  • Challenges of different types of entrepreneurial ventures in Australian and global contexts
  • What defines an entrepreneur: entrepreneurial orientation, skills and mindset
  • Reflect on application of entrepreneurial orientation in your own situation
  • Diversity of entrepreneurs, the importance of self-awareness, self-awareness tools and techniques
  • What is an opportunity? Sources of ideas and opportunities, and how an idea becomes an opportunity
  • Techniques and tools for evaluating and developing entrepreneurial opportunities
  • Apply techniques to existing and own ideas and present decisions based on opportunity evaluation

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.