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Entrepreneurship for Sustainability (MULT30024)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Dr Jillian Kenny
Overview
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Entrepreneurship for Sustainability is a project-based subject. Working in teams, learners will propose an entrepreneurial venture to improve Australia’s performance against at least one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through this subject, learners will be introduced to the SDG framework and its uses, as well as various tools to elicit and validate an entrepreneurial concept.
This subject is for anyone interested in learning, through experience, about entrepreneurial approaches to addressing real challenges to create impact and value – not just learners with entrepreneurial ambitions.
The subject contains a high degree of industry and community interaction, including guest speakers who have experience addressing SDGs through entrepreneurial means.
Learners will be supported to:
• integrate their own disciplinary knowledge relating to the problem they choose to tackle
• learn from industry speakers to enrich their grasp of the problem
• conduct background, user, and expert research to develop a deeper, shared understanding of the problem
• identify and assess creative means to address the problem, and
• design a proposed solution for impact, considering the social, environmental, and economic inputs, influences and dynamics at play.
Learners are not required to come into the subject already having an idea. At the beginning of the semester, learners will be provided with a series of prompts – specific ideas for problem areas they may choose to tackle.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- ILO1 - Use the SDG framework to inform an entrepreneurial idea
- ILO2 - Harness entrepreneurial tools, methodologies and mindsets to address a real-world problem or opportunity
- ILO3 - Collaborate effectively as a team to develop an entrepreneurial idea
- ILO4 - Demonstrate a capacity to critically evaluate the impact of an undertaking against its intended outcomes
- ILO5 - Effectively pitch an entrepreneurial idea to peers and an invested community audience.
Generic skills
- Grasp the social, cultural, environmental, and financial responsibilities of a professional and the need to employ principles of sustainable development
- Capacity for entrepreneurial problem solving and collaborative learning
- Application of knowledge and skills to real-world problems and opportunities
- Ability to function effectively as an individual and in interdisciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate effectively with relevant experts, potential beneficiaries, and the community at large
- Knowledge of, and commitment to, professional and ethical responsibilities
- Ability to manage and synthesise data and other information
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Introductory self-pitch (video submission). Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 2 and 5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 1 | 5% |
Problem validation report (group submission )*. ILOS 1, 2 and 3 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 5 | 5% |
Solution validation report (group submission)*. ILOs 1, 2 and 3 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 9 | 10% |
Final pitch (presented as a group, marked individually)*. 10 minutes plus Q&A per group. ILOs 1, 2, 3 and 5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 11 | 15% |
Final report (group submission)*. Approx. 4000 words plus Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas and Theory of Change. ILOS 1, 2, 3 and 4 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 12 | 30% |
Essay reflecting on entrepreneurship to achieving SDGs (individual). ILOS 1, 2 and 4 are addressed in this assessment.
| During the examination period | 25% |
Participation (60-second video update, contribution to peers, feedback on interim presentations). ILO 3 is addressed in this assessment.
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Students must attend 80% of all scheduled classes and attempt all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. Hurdle requirement: 80% attendance to scheduled classes to pass this subject | Throughout the teaching period | 0% |
Additional details
*Group submissions based on 4-person group.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Jillian Kenny Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours consisting of 12 x 3-hour weekly classes (that include a combination of lectures, workshops, and classroom activities). Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 25 July 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 5 August 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022 Semester 2 contact information
Dr Jillian Kenny
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024