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Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking and behaving that can be taught. 

This degree is ideal for students who would like to:

• Start their own business
• Revitalise an existing business, possibly a family business
• Work in a progressive organisation that values employees with  an entrepreneurial approach to work

This degree will give you a solid grounding in business.  It will also give you entrepreneurial knowledge, competence, know-how and skills.  You will be supported throughout by staff who share this ethos.

Once students have been taught the initial business fundamentals, there will be a clear focus on Entrepreneurship subjects, including:

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Family Business
• Small Business Start-ups
• Social Enterprise
• Ideas Generation
• New Venture Planning and Creation
• Enterprise Innovation
• Enterprise in Action
• Market Research
• Innovation and Creativity
• Intrapreneurship
• People Management
• Business Ethics

This programme was developed after consultation with Enterprise Ireland, a panel of entrepreneurs and an extensive review of published research.

Year 1 - Semester 1

Mandatory

Microeconomics, Financial Accounting 1, Management Principles & Business Environment, Introduction to Marketing, Computer Applications

Year 1 - Semester 2

Mandatory

Macroeconomics, Management Accounting 1, Human Resource Management, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Learning and Innovation Skills

Year 1 - Electives
Academic Writing or Language and Culture 1 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Year 2 - Semester 3

Mandatory

Applied Principles of Marketing, Business Information Systems, Business Communications, Human Resource Development, Business Law & Legal Studies (Year Long)

Electives

Leadership & Change Management or Management Accounting 2 or Language and Culture 2 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Year 2 - Semester 4

Mandatory

Business Start-up, Statistics for Business, Organisational Behaviour, Selling Techniques

Electives
Intermediate Macroeconomics or Financial Accounting 2 or Language and Culture 2 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Year 3 - Semester 5

Mandatory

New Venture Creation, Project Management, Family Business, Financial Management, Market Research

Electives

Civic Engagement or Sales Management or Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Year 3 - Semester 6

Mandatory

New Venture Planning, Social Enterprise, Organisation Design, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

Electives (two of the following)

Business Communications and Negotiations, Operations Management, Technology, Management & Society, Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Year 4

Mandatory

Entrepreneurship in Action (Year Long), Strategic Management (Year Long), Critical Thinking, Research Methods

Electives

People Management, Multi-channel Retail Strategy, Integrated Enterprise Systems, Workplace Issues HR/IR in Context, Supply Chain Management, Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)

Graduates should be suitable for employment in a wide range of careers in the private, community, voluntary and public sectors including: 

• Potentially creating, leading, and directing your own new for-profit or non-profit enterprise or social enterprise
• Contributing to guiding and managing an established private enterprise or non-profit enterprise including family business or social enterprise
• Working in an administration or executive position for a private or non-profit or public sector or social enterprise organisation
• Working as a New Product/Service Development Manager or Social Enterprise Project Manager
• Operating effectively in traditional business roles
• Teaching Business and Business Studies in post-primary schools (after completion of a teaching programme of study)

Graduates of the Level 8 programme may apply for a range of post graduate programmes (including Masters degrees) in a variety of colleges in Ireland and overseas.

Applicants for this programme do not have to have studied entrepreneurshp, accounting, finance, economics or business previously.  Applicants to not have to be from a family business to successfully complete this programme.