Humanities
Enterprise is about the application of your skills and knowledge to deliver a marketable service or product. This could mean developing a new product, running a better charity or minimising environmental impact. In all cases an enterprising individual seeks out an opportunity and develops an organisation around the idea.
The aim of our units is to encourage you to maximise your potential to be more enterprising.
Benefits
Through studying enterprise, you are encouraged to apply your specialist skills and knowledge, to identify opportunities and so maximise your impact in your chosen career, to make a real difference.
When you graduate you may reasonably expect to have to fit into any one of a variety of work situations including self employment, consultancy, partnerships, small businesses, publicly funded organisations and large public limited companies.
We want you to maximise your potential whether working for others or for yourself.
Enterprise Unit Options
This table shows the units and the levels at which they may be studied. For academic year 2006-07 the preferred options are:
Level 1 study Entrepreneurial Skills A (MSEC10010) semester 1
followed by Entrepreneurial Skills B (MSEC10012) semester 2
Or study just Entrepreneurial Skills A (MSEC10010) in semester
2
Level 3 study Humanities Enterprise with Tools and Techniques
(MSEC30041/2) semester 1 or 2.
Unit Title |
Code |
Level |
Semester |
Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MSEC10010 |
1 |
1 or 2 |
10 |
|
MSEC10012 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
MSEC10051 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
|
MSEC20011 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
|
MSEC20042 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
|
MSEC30031 |
3 |
1 |
10 |
|
MSEC40012 |
3 |
2 |
10 |
|
MSEC30041/2 |
3 |
1 or 2 |
10 |
|
MSEC30122 |
3 |
|
10 |
* To be introduced in 2007-8.
Structure
At level one, you will work in small groups and study existing enterprises and organisations, drawing together reports and making presentations. You are introduced to a variety of subjects from how to investigate a market to how to protect ideas.
At level two, more detailed market and financial tools are introduced with case examples by staff with practical enterprise experience. At level three, you are encouraged to apply marketing skills and strategic analysis to identify and exploit opportunities.
All units have been designed to appeal to students from a wide range of backgrounds and there is no difficult mathematics.
Flexibility
The units may be studied in a variety of combinations. The maximum loading
is 20 credits per year, if all units are studied over 3 years.
A 10 credit per year route is also available.
For students wishing to ‘sample' enterprise there is a 10 credit level 1 unit, 'Entrepreneurial Skills A' (MSEC10010).
For those deciding in their third year that some enterprise skills might help employability there is a level 3, 10 credit unit, 'Humanities Enterprise with Tools and Techniques' (MSEC30041/2).
All units have a number of transferable skills which have wide application beyond the ‘enterprise' subject area.
Further Information
If you would like any further information about these units or would like to know which units are most suitable for you to study please contact Andrea Taylor on +44 (0)161 306 8480 or by emailing a.taylor@manchester.ac.uk
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