Teaching

The primary approaches to teaching and learning are as follows:

• Taught sessions by academics and leading practitioners
• E-learning, including online content-based discussions
• Group work, involving dialogue, debate and presentations throughout the taught modules
• Individual work, involving research and written presentation of findings on selected topics
• Support and facilitation by a CJBS team of faculty, tutors and supervisors
• Supplemental online materials and collaborative E-learning to maximise knowledge sharing
• Group projects
• Simulations

The programme has a core element spread over four modules, which cover the elements in common to all entrepreneurial ventures:

1. Opportunities, Business Models and Entrepreneurial Strategy
2. Understanding Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
3. Assembling and Managing Innovative Teams
4. Persuasion, Social Capital and Sales  

A further six elective modules must be taken as follows:

Financial Literacy is required of all students who cannot, prior to undertaking the module, pass an exam in the subject to be agreed by the degree committee.

*Students may choose one of 11 specialist pathway modules, but a pathway is not required – they may opt for an extra elective instead if they wish. For 2018–19, the pathways are as follows:

1. Fintech Entrepreneurship
2. Health Care Entrepreneurship
3. Biotech Entrepreneurship
4. Retail and Consumer Entrepreneurship 
5. Cleantech Entrepreneurship
6. Agritech and Food Entrepreneurship
7. Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
8. Entrepreneurship Education
9. Manufacturing Technologies Entrepreneurship
10. Government Services Entrepreneurship
11. Construction and Property Entrepreneurship

*There are 17 electives from which students will choose the appropriate number (four if Financial Literacy and a pathway module are taken, five if only one of these is taken, six if none of these is taken). These are as follows:

1. Intellectual Property
2. Managing Early-Stage Finance
3. Pitching and Investor Networks
4. Lean Startup Theory and Practice
5. B2B Marketing
6. Decision Making and Systems Thinking
7. Managing the Early Growth of a Firm
8. Leadership and Vision
9. Digital Marketing
10. 21st-Century Entrepreneurship:  Sustainability and Emerging Topics
11. Raising Early-Stage Finance
12. Raising Later-Stage Finance
13. Managing Scaleups
14. Design: Creating, Making and Service Design
15. Becoming a Startup Engineer
16. Intrapreneurship Theory
17. Intrapreneurship Practice

Students may only take Intrapreneurship Practice if sponsored by their employer to do so, as the module requires project work within their employer.

A final report of 15,000 words makes up the remainder of the programme. 

Feedback

Students receive detailed written feedback after each written assignment.

Assessment

Thesis

A project of 15,000 words is the main work for year two of the programme. In the "learning by doing" spirit of the programme, we expect for most students, their "project" will be the entrepreneurial venture they are developing, and the written work will document the experiments and trials they undertake in developing their venture. However, projects will be allowed, subject to supervisor and programme director approval, on a wide range of entrepreneurship topics.

Essays

The core courses will be assessed by essay. The elective courses will be assessed by a combination of coursework (including essays), class participation and case study analyses.

Other

Active participation in online learning activities and in-person discussions is expected of all students to support collaborative learning.