Entrepreneurial Skills Workshop II (MGMT 496)

2021 Spring
Sabancı Business School
Management(MGMT)
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Berna Beyhan bernabeyhan@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
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Field work/field study/on-the-job
Interactive,Project based learning
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CONTENT

Workshop on Entrepreneurial Skills course is designed to provide seminars, conferences, and workshops to entrepreneurial students in order to foster their teamwork and professional skills before they initiate their career.

OBJECTIVE

This course aims to develop and improve students? entrepreneurial skills. Students who are interested in entrepreneurship need to improve their skills in management, innovation/technology, design, and law. The idea is to expose students to entrepreneurial environment, meet them the main challenges and problems that an entrepreneur can confront and the ways of overcoming these problems. Students are expected to meet real entrepreneurs, collaborate them and help them to solve their real problems. The assignments of students will be given by rel entrepreneurs and the assignments will be related to current problems of entrepreneurial teams. Therefore, the aim of this workshop is to help students develop various entrepreneurial and professional skills and experience the real start-up environment.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Develop skills to create new ideas and transform them into products/services.
  • Be aware of the major challenges in entrepreneurial process and how these challenges can be overcome.
  • Learn the developments in science, management fields that might have an impact on social, environment and economics
  • Be able to understand the role of law and design for daily operations of companies;
  • Be skilled at providing constructive feedback.
  • Learn the experiences of successful entrepreneurs.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES


1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 4

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 3

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 4

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 4

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 4


1. Have an understanding of economics and main functional areas of management

2. Have a basic all-around knowledge in humanities, science, mathematics, and literature

3. Have a basic knowledge of law and ethics, awareness of social and ethical responsibilities

4. Work effectively in teams and environments characterized by people of diverse educational, social and cultural backgrounds

5. Demonstrate proficiency in oral and written communications in English

6. Pursue open minded inquiry and appreciate the importance of research as an input into management practice; thus, a.know how to access, interpret and analyze data and information by using current technologies b.use the results from analyses to make informed decisions

7. Use office softwares for written communication, presentation, and data analysis

8. Demonstrate awareness that business settings present different opportunities and challenges for managers due to environmental/contextual differences that arise in economic, political, cultural, legal-regulatory domains

ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA

  Percentage (%)
Assignment 80
Participation 20