Developing a new entrepreneurship elective

This case is anchored around around a brand new 10 ECTS course

The case challenge in short terms

The Challenge is to build a meaningful 10 ECTS course leaning on the goals and the visions described below. Students should be supported in developing self-efficacy and professionalism whilst learning and recognizing the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship. We would like to involve all relevant supportive resources at SDU in the final course design.

Educational program: MSc.IT Product Design, MSc. IT Web Communication (Design, Webformidling, Webarkitektur and Interaktionsdesign) 

Course Characteristics

Course name: Entrepreneurial Practice 

Link to the course description

This is an elective course

Student capacity: We expect minimum 10, maximum 25 students

Student Profile

Second year Master students at the faculty of Humanities, 3rd semester, just before the Master Thesis 
Any of the two specified study programs can take this elective, however it is open for participation from other HUM study programs as well

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation related goals for the course

Identify relevant challenges and innovatively work on them in an entrepreneurial project 
Recognize the potential an idea has for creating value and identify appropriate ways of making the most out of it 
Get and manage the material, non-material and digital resources needed to turn ideas into action
Plan and implement different steps from idea generation to pilot launch 

The vision for students who have passed the course

We would love the students to be able to drive projects, to manage the resources that they need. We would also like them to find joy in creating value (for themselves, for others or society).  Another aspect concerns networking, where we would like students to learn about finding and contacting interesting people. Further it is about setting their professional skills into practice, thus finding out what they can really use them for. 

The challenges

The Challenge is to build a meaningful 10 ECTS course leaning on the goals and the visions described here. Students should be supported in developing self-efficacy and professionalism whilst learning and recognizing the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship. We would like to involve all relevant supportive resources at SDU in the course design.