ENT1000 – Entrepreneurship
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course aims to give you a general insight into how an idea or opportunity can be created or discovered, and communicated, tested and validated into a solution with value for the users. The course emphasizes learning through entrepreneurship, and the students will work together in groups with experimental exercises or real-life examples alongside theoretical teaching.
Learning outcome
After taking ENT1000 you'll:
- have knowledge of innovation and modern entrepreneurship approaches and how this theory can be applied in practice.
- have a basic understanding of key directions in innovation and entrepreneurship
- be able to distinguish between entrepreneurial and traditional management perspectives
- identify, test and validate ideas or opportunities in the market, and design solution experiments with customers or users to address these opportunities
- be able to reflect on attitudes and characteristics that can be associated with learning-oriented processes and show this through participation in entrepreneurial forms of work.
- have the ability to communicate and convey academic views in writing and orally.
Admission to the course
This course will not be held Spring 2022
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
No obligatory prerequisites beyond the minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway.
Teaching
This course will not be held Spring 2022
2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of group lessions each week.
- Attending the first 2 group lessions are compulsory.
- Submission of mandatory assignments is required.
Read more about rules and guidelines for mandatory assignments and hand-ins.
Examination
The course grade is based on the following:
- Oral group exam which counts 60% towards the final grade. All students in a group will be given the same grade
- 2 hours final, individual multiple choice exam (digital) which counts 40% towards the final grade
Examination support material
No examination support material is allowed on the individual exam.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.