6 ECTS credits
161 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023168BNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students must have taken 'Management' & 'Marketing', before they can enroll in this course.
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Business
- Educational team
- Philippe Eiselein
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 27 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
122 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- Concept of social entrepreneurship
- Breeds of business models of social entrepreneurs
- Financial challenges of social entrepreneurs
- Developing Financial skills for social entrepreneurs
- Developing other business skills for social entrepreneurs (Networking, Communicating, Commercialising, Governance)
- Access to funding for social entrepreneurs
- Impact measures for social entrepreneurs
- Look for sustainable business opportunities
- Course material
- Handbook (Required) : A financial guide for social entrepreneurs, Dentchev, Eiselein, Vander Velpen, Bouckaert, Diaz Gonzalez, Die Keure, 9980000021223, 2023
Digital course material (Required) : Slides and articles, Canvas
- Additional info
- Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
- Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
- Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study
This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.
Lecture: 27 hours (9 x 3 hours)
- preparation group assignment: 6 hours
- presentation group assignments: 6 hours
- keeping up with the course material during the semester, amounting to 1 hour per hour lecture: 27 hours
- research / attend event: 3 hours
- preparation group assignment: 40 hours (5 days of 8 hours)
- preparation presentation: 4 hours
- preparation exam: 48 hours (6 days of 8 hours)
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
The student:
- can communicate with laypeople about a substantiated approach and solution of a management issue in a learning environment;
- has a problem solving attitude with respect to business economics;
- can analyze political and social developments, and can relate them to business economic activity.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Written Exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 70% of the final mark.
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Assignment
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The written exam will be composed of four open questions and two questions related to practical cases. The final score of the written exam is the sum of scores to all questions.
Practical Exam (Assignment) during the semester will count for 30 % of the final mark. This assignment is completed in self-composed groups, and focuses on specific case study. Important stages in the evaluation of the practical exam are peer evaluation, in addition to the quality of the assignment. Peer evaluation is used to identify and mitigate problems of the functioning of groups.
The final mark is the sum of the written exam and the practical exam.
Marks on the assignment can be transferred from the first exam period to the second exam period. In the second exam period, students can work individually or in smaller group on the improvement of their assignment.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business