ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
Areas: Business Organisation
Center Faculty of Business Administration and Management
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge about business creation.
- Provide students with the necessary tools to be able to detect business opportunities, as well as to develop plans that convert those ideas into viable projects that can be carried out.
- Promote the entrepreneurial spirit among the student body.
1.- Importance of entrepreneurial business projects
2.- Characteristics and skills of entrepreneurs
3.- The business idea. Sources of ideas
4.- Reasons for the failure of new business projects
5.- Writing a business plan
6.- Legal business forms
7.- Sources of business finance
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Evans, V., & Tracy, B. (2014). “The standout business plan: make it irresistible and get the fund you need for your startup or growing business”.
Kuratko, D. F. (2009) Introduction to entrepreneurship. 8th ed. Australia: South-Western Cengage Learning.
Lumsdaine, E. and Binks, M. (2006) Entrepreneurship: from creativity to innovation : thinking skills for a changing world. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing
Michanek, J. and Breiler, A. (2013) The idea agent: the handbook on creative processes. Second edition. London: Routledge.
Steffan, B. (2009). “Ready to start your own business? Prepare to think and act like a sucesssful entrepreneur”. Ed. Pearson.
Thompson, A. et al (2012). “Strategic management”. 18ª ed. Ed. Mc-GrawHill.
Basic and general
CB1 - To possess and apply knowledge in a study area that starts from the basis of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects involving knowledge from the avant-garde of their field of study.
CB2 - To apply the knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and to possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
CB3 - To gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of social, scientific or ethical nature.
CB4 - To transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized audience.
CB5 - To develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
CG4 - To know how to communicate information, ideas, problems and solution proposals to business issues for both a specialized and non-specialized audience, making use of both verbal and written language as well as the media and techniques used in the discipline for representing relationships and presenting data.
CG5 - To possess the general knowledge and the necessary learning skills to continue studying and to undertake specialized studies in the different areas of the company and in other related areas, with a high degree of autonomy.
Specific
A5 - Company basic theory. Organization and functional areas.
D4 - Prepare advisory reports on specific situations of companies and markets.
D11 - Communicate fluently in their environment and work as a team.
Transversal
CT1 - Analysis and synthesis.
CT2 - Organization and planning.
CT3 - Oral and written communication.
CT4 - Information management.
CT6 - Troubleshooting.
CT7 - Decision making.
CT8 - Critical reasoning.
CT9 - Autonomy in learning.
CT10 - Team work.
CT12 - Skills in interpersonal relationships.
CT16 - Sensitivity towards social and environmental problems.
CT18 - Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.
CT19 - Creativity and innovative capacity.
CT21 - Project Management
Scenario 1: adapted normality
The classroom sessions dedicated to the exhibition classes will aim to introduce students to the content of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing especially relevant aspects and the relationships between them. The interactive sessions in small groups will be based on the practical application of the theoretical contents exposed in the expository sessions. These sessions will be aimed at solving and debating cases and practical exercises to improve students' ability to recognize and define the problems that companies face, and to be able to make the most appropriate decisions, while facilitating interaction. among the students. All these activities will be complemented by the personal work that students must dedicate to each one of them, such as searching for bibliographic material, reading said material, writing conclusions, etc. This autonomous work will be guided by the teachers in the hours assigned to tutoring.
The tutorials will be primarily face-to-face. During the course, the "virtual classroom" will be used for communication, teaching and evaluation tasks. You can also use the Microsoft Teams tool; In this case, the students will be informed promptly.
Scenario 2: distancing
In this scenario, a combination of face-to-face and virtual teaching will be given in accordance with the recommendations transmitted by the Dean's Office or the Rectorate for this scenario and the sanitary measures that are established at that time.
In the case of virtual teaching, Microsoft Teams and the virtual campus will be used and can be carried out synchronously and / or asynchronously. The tutorials will preferably take place electronically.
Scenario 3: closure of facilities
In this scenario, the teaching will be virtual, it will take place through Microsoft Teams and the virtual campus and it can be carried out synchronously and / or asynchronously. The tutorials will take place telematically.
The continuous evaluation will take into account the participation in the classes, as well as all the activities developed by the students. The active participation in the analysis of the practical cases, debates and comment of readings, as well as the presentation of academic works will be taken into account.
The evaluation of the theoretical knowledge will be carried out through a final exam to be done on the date set by the centre in the course calendar.
Attendance at both lecture classes and interactive classes is mandatory, unless the student is granted the waiver of assistance, following Instruction No. 1/2017, of the Secretary General, on the waiver of attendance to class in certain circumstances. Students who have been granted attendance waiver are able to do a final exam and opt to the maximum qualification.
Punctuation
- Participation in the activities developed in the classroom: analysis of cases, participation in debates, presentation of academic works and preparation of a business plan ... Weight in the final grade: 40%.
- Final exam. Weight in the final grade: 60%.
These two parts that make up the qualification of students, will apply to the two calls (ordinary and extraordinary). Therefore, the score obtained in the continuous assessment (40%) will be maintained for the July session.
Competency evaluation
The list of competences that will be evaluated in this matter is detailed below:
- Continuous evaluation: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CG4, CG5, A5, D4, D11, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT12, CT16, CT18, CT19, CT21.
- Final exam: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CG4, CG5, A5, D4, D11.
Second opportunity:
The same evaluation system will be applied as in the first opportunity, that is, a new final content exam will be carried out, with the weighting established for the first opportunity, which will be added to the score achieved in the continuous evaluation.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and review of grades will apply.
The nature of the tests, exercises and final examination of the subject will be as follows depending on the scenario enacted by the USC:
Scenario 1: adapted normality
The continuous assessment tests and exercises and the final exam will be done in person. Weight in the final grade: Expository 60% Interactive 40%.
Scenario 2: distancing
The tests and continuous assessment exercises and the final exam will be face-to-face or telematic in accordance with the regulations established by the Rector's Office and the Dean's Office and the sanitary measures established at that time in scenario 2. Weight in the final grade: Exhibition 60% Interactive 40%.
Scenario 3: closure of facilities
The tests and continuous assessment exercises and the final exam will be telematic. Weight in the final grade: Expository 60% Interactive 40%.
The course consists of 4.5 credits and each credit is equivalent to 25 hours. The total work hours are distributed as follows:
- Presence 45 h.
- Student's personal work: 67.5 h.
In order to maximize learning, students should prepare the readings, practical cases and recommended texts in advance, carry out all the activities proposed by the teaching staff and regularly attend to both the theoretical and practical classes. In addition, it is advisable to complement the theoretical expositions of the teacher with the textbooks recommended in the bibliography section of the program.
It is also advisable to participate in the visits proposed by the faculty and to carry out the proposed group works.
In the event that scenarios 2 or 3 are decreed, the learning evaluation methodology and system will be the following:
Scenario 2:
Methodology: In this scenario, a combination of face-to-face and virtual teaching will be given in accordance with the recommendations transmitted by the Dean's Office or the Rector's Office for this scenario and the sanitary measures that are established at that time.
In the case of virtual teaching, Microsoft Teams and the virtual campus will be used and can be carried out synchronously and / or asynchronously. The tutorials will preferably take place electronically.
Assessment system: The continuous assessment tests and exercises and the final exam will be face-to-face or telematic according to the regulations established by the Rectorate and the Dean's Office and the sanitary measures established at that time in scenario 2. Weight in the final grade: Exhibition 60% Interactive 40%.
Scenario 3:
Methodology: In this scenario, the teaching will be virtual, it will take place through Microsoft Teams and the virtual campus, and it can be carried out synchronously and / or asynchronously. The tutorials will take place telematically.
Assessment system: The continuous assessment tests and exercises and the final exam will be telematic. Weight in the final grade: Expository 60% Interactive 40%.
Vicente Angel Lopez Lopez
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 982824419
- vicente.lopez.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Begoña Barreiro Fernandez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 982824421
- begona.barreiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Nailya Saifulina
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 881811610
- nailya.saifulina [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor to reduce teaching hours
| Thursday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:00-17:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Virtual classroom |
| 01.12.2021 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 4 |
| 06.22.2021 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 4 |