BA5137 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Course Code:3125137
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Business Administration
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
Course Coordinator:Assoc.Prof.Dr. ADİL ORAN
Offered Semester:Fall Semesters.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the student with the tools needed to plan, launch, and grow a startup business from ideas to reality. There is a lot of failure in entrepreneurship, we believe that those completing this course will encounter it less often.


Course Content

This course is designed to provide students with broad perspective of the topics of entrepreneurship, and the structure, development and management of family firms and their specific characteristics. the complex relationship between family, business and owners are examined. leadership, corporate culture and ethics of family firms and the reasons behind their short survivals are also analyzed. other topics to be covered include responding to change, institutionalization of family business and corporate strategy and policy in transition to professional management.


Course Learning Outcomes

Students completing this course will be able to:

  • Recognize the entrepreneurial potential within themselves and others in their environment.
  • Appreciate the role of entrepreneurship within society at the level of the organization and in their own personal life.
  • Understand the process nature of entrepreneurship and ways to manage the process.
  • Identify and screen potential business ideas.
  • Understand the early stage development of a business idea into an opportunity with the potential to generate profits.
  • Be able to use lean startup and customer development techniques to undertake business model generation and development.

Program Outcomes Matrix

Level of Contribution
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1They attain advanced level of knowledge in the functional areas of business administration such as strategic management, marketing, accounting, finance, organization management, human resources, and operations management.
2They are capable of synthesizing the knowledge that they attained in the area of business administration with the knowledge base that they developed in their undergraduate specialisms.
3They are capable of identifying and analyzing legal, environmental and social factors, which influence the basic functional areas of the business administration.
4They understand and implement rational, systematic and scientific approaches effectively in problem solving and decision-making processes.
5They are capable of applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating the knowledge they developed in diverse fields efficiently.
6They are capable of transferring information by using efficient verbal and written communication techniques.
7They are capable of performing professional communication effectively also in English.
8They know methods of performing efficient teamwork.
9They are capable of understanding and synthesizing academic and scientific research in their areas and able to transform such research into useful knowledge.
10They have competence in all of the stages of scientific research and processes.
11They are knowledgeable in the areas of professional ethics and responsibility.
12They are capable of utilizing their knowledge and skills efficiently in global and multicultural contexts.
13They are knowledgeable in the issues of environment, social responsibility, social justice, quality and cultural values.
14They have a creative, innovative and critical perspective.

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