Overview

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship BA (Hons) is an innovative course, and could be well suited to you if you have a keen interest in creating your own potential entrepreneurial venture or potential project alongside your academic study.

With creativity and innovation at its heart, this course is for current entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, or for people interested in exploring these concepts. So whether you want to potentially start, develop or grow a business, upon successful completion of this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to run a small enterprise. Alongside your course, you also have the opportunity to explore potentially working on plans for, and developing, a start-up business.

Course information

The course will give you the opportunity to go through the three main stages of value and venture creation: Idea generation and feasibility assessment, Planning and implementation and Scaling and growth.

You will have the opportunity for in-depth exploration of your particular interests through coursework and an enterprise research project in the final year.

There is also the option for a placement/study abroad year* where you can apply to study abroad at a partner university or to work in employment in the UK or overseas.

The educational aims of the Enterprise and Entrepreneurship BA (Hons) course are to:

• Stimulate interest and help to develop expertise to equip you to generate value through the potential creation of an entrepreneurial idea, with the opportunity to review the feasibility of this idea, formulate a viable business plan, and take the necessary steps to set up and run a potential business or entrepreneurial project;
• Provide you with an educational opportunity to broaden your knowledge around the specialist subject area of your entrepreneurial idea, to support your venture and designed to help develop a pool of transferable skills; and
• Enable you the opportunity to experience value creation whilst in the supportive environment of the University and make an informed decision about your potential future employment options.