COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTE 4142 ENTREPRENEURSHIP ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Marine Transportation Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR EMRE UÇAN

Offered to

Marine Transportation Engineering

Course Objective

In this course, students learn the essential attributes of an entrepreneur and the stages one goes through in taking the seed of an idea and growing it into a successful business.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
2   Identify the distinctions between leadership and management
3   Experience the process of developing a functional team
4   Understand the components of an entrepreneurial business plan
5   Apply the concepts of Emotional Intelligence in workplace roles
6   Understand the stages of the hiring and interview process
7   Recognize impediments to effective communication
8   Develop a vocabulary of business competencies essential to providing feedback

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Entepreneur
2 Entrepreneurial Attributes And Characteristics
3 The Business Plan
4 Leadership & Management in an Entrepreneurial Business
5 Leadership & Management in an Entrepreneurial Business (cont.)
6 Communication
7 Mid-Term Exam
8 Barriers and Gateways to Communication
9 Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
10 Human Relations Developing Human Capital Pre-hire
11 Human Relations Developing Human Capital Post-hire
12 Entrepreneurial Challenges
13 Entrepreneurial Challenges (cont.)
14 Project Presentations
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Barriers and Gateways to Communication by Carl R. Rogers and F.J. Roethlisberger
Harvard Business Review 11/1991
2. Lost in Translation by Alison Stein Wellner
Inc.com, Inc. Magazine, September 2005
3. A Crash Course in Communication by Sarah Fenson
Inc.com, Inc. Magazine, August 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature review, Presentation and discussion, Case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Attendence to class and high grades supporting the evidence of learning outcomes will be used to grade the students.

Assessment Criteria

1. Having the knowledge, skills, and competencies in entrepranurship at undergraduate level.
2. Ability to search, study, and interprete the matters
3. Verbal and written skills and competencies will be assessed.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Öğr.Gör.Kpt.Emre Uçan

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 91

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.153
LO.23335
LO.335555
LO.455
LO.53
LO.6553
LO.7553
LO.83353

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