Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship (GC-ENTR) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
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Program Director:
Professor Gerda Gemser
gerda.gemser@unimelb.edu.au
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Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this course, graduates should be able to:
Learning Outcome 1: Graduates of this degree will be adept at understanding, analysing and evaluating entrepreneurial ventures.
- Describe and explain foundational knowledge on entrepreneurship and innovation in both new ventures and established organizations
- Identify and apply some core methods for researching entrepreneurship related problems
- Evaluate the impact of some core social, cultural and environmental factors on enterprises and the market.
Learning Outcome 2: Graduates of this degree will be creative, critical thinkers in relation to entrepreneurial practice and in developing evidence-based solutions to problems in enterprises and in broader society.
- Assess entrepreneurial business opportunities from ideation to implementation
- Identify core issues and solutions in relation to growth for entrepreneurial business opportunities
- Apply knowledge of entrepreneurial theory to analyse problems in different contexts
- Demonstrate creativity and initiative in the application of knowledge to entrepreneurial practice.
Learning Outcome 3: Graduates of this degree will be effective and ethical decision makers in entrepreneurial enterprises.
- Apply basic quantitative techniques to analyse enterprise decisions
- Apply ethical decision-making in entrepreneurial enterprises
- Apply organizational design to create sustainable enterprises
- Utilise a range of tools relevant to entrepreneurial decision making
- Use evidence-based research techniques to support and evaluate decisions
- Execute a pop-up enterprise requiring research, validation and business processes evaluation
- Apply knowledge of entrepreneurship discipline to identify entrepreneurial business opportunities.
Learning Outcome 4: Graduates of this degree will be competent in professional knowledge and skills in the entrepreneurship discipline in preparation for an entrepreneurial career.
- Demonstrate collaboration skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic requirements to be a successful entrepreneur including self-awareness, creativity, and reflective practice
- Demonstrate the capacity to successfully work independently with personal accountability
- Appraise recent developments in the entrepreneurship discipline.
Generic skills
- Appraisal of foundational theories, principles, and techniques
- Critical evaluation of evidence in support of an argument or proposition
- Problem solving and creativity through the basic application of appropriate theories, principles, techniques, and data
- Communication of ideas, theories and solutions to peers and the wider community
- Ability to synthesize ideas, theories and data in developing solutions to problems
- Research skills including the retrieval and application of information from a variety of sources
- Demonstrate a capacity to successfully engage in collaborative activities such as group-based work and activities
- Interpret and effectively communicate research results, both orally and in written form, to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Graduate attributes
On successful completion of this degree graduates will be:
- Adept at analysis and evaluation of social and business problems to enable evidence-based enterprise decision making
- Proficient in professional knowledge and skills in entrepreneurial practices
- Skilled at identifying and implementing entrepreneurial business opportunities in a simulated real-life environment
- Competent at analysing and evaluating information to enable evidenced-based entrepreneurial practice
- Ethical problem solvers in enterprise creation through the application of appropriate concepts, principles and data
- Strategic and critical thinkers in relation to enterprise growth and pathways to market
- Effective communicators of entrepreneurship concepts to peers and the wider community
- Able to conduct basic market research and to retrieve information from a variety of sources
- Able to collaborate to initiate and implement entrepreneurial ventures.
Last updated: 14 February 2023