Entrepreneurship

Overview

Overview

Entrepreneurs can be found in a diverse range of industries. What they have in common is ambition, an ability to think outside the box and the love of a personal challenge.

If you want to pave your own way and bring ideas to life, you could be an entrepreneur in the making.

This major is designed for enterprising people who want to start their own business, or work as internal corporate entrepreneurs.

You’ll gain skills in problem solving, planning, organising and managing innovation and develop your skills, knowledge and expertise in starting, running and growing an entrepreneurial venture.

In your final semester, you’ll work on a simulated consultancy project to road-test your skills.

This major sits within the Bachelor of Commerce degree. To apply for this major, you will apply for the Bachelor of Commerce.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.

Recommended double majors:

• Accounting
• International Business
• Marketing

What you'll learn

• think critically, creatively and reflectively to generate innovative solutions to entrepreneurial challenges
• apply entrepreneurship theories to business practices and identify challenges of business ownership
• synthesise an entrepreneurship solution by accessing and evaluating multiple sources of information
• communicate in ways appropriate to the management discipline for various audiences and contexts
• use and apply technologies, recognizing their advantages and limitations when applied to management
• take responsibility for their own learning by demonstrating initiative in finding new information and actively participating in varied learning experiences
• think globally and consider management issues from a variety of perspectives
• actively support the value of cultural diversity in improving business and professional practice
• demonstrate leadership, ethical practice and professional integrity when working within a team and independently