BUSN11025 - Sustainable Entrepreneur Mindset

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Within this unit, you will cultivate a sustainable entrepreneurial mindset, which is crucial for those aiming to effect significant change through business. The course starts with introspection, where you will explore your motivations for diving into the business realm. This exploration will help you align your future business activities with your core values and personal drives. You will develop entrepreneurial skills focusing on future-oriented thinking, effective goal-setting, and innovative problem-solving strategies, all tailored to address ethically complex and community-centric issues. Additionally, you will gain practical tools to identify and engage with 'problems worth solving.' Through these activities, you will ensure that your business practices aim for success and uphold sustainability and ethical integrity.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Self assessment 40%
2. Critical Review 40%
3. Portfolio 20%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Apply the principles of sustainable entrepreneurial thinking to form a business vision
  2. Execute business plans based on strategic goal setting
  3. Employ ethical and sustainable problem-solving techniques
  4. Model ethically sustainable business operations to meet social responsibilities in business.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Self assessment • • •
2 - Critical Review • • •
3 - Portfolio • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking •
4 - Information Literacy •
5 - Team Work • •
6 - Information Technology Competence •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice •
9 - Social Innovation • •
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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