Major type

Postgraduate

Description

This major offers interdisciplinary study to an advanced level in the field of entrepreneurship. The major exposes students to key conceptual and theoretical foundations needed to understand the process of launching a new venture, with particular emphasis on international aspects of new venture creation and management. It allows students to combine this foundation knowledge with a variety of specialised units of study drawn from disciplines from across the Faculty. Units of study in this major focus on key components of the entrepreneurial process relating to marketing, the law, finance, management and international business. The major is relevant to students from a variety of fields with an interest in the entrepreneurial process. It also provides background relevant to working as or for an entrepreneur, and key stakeholders such as policy makers, venture capitalists, and advisors.

Requirements for the major

Students who intend to complete a major in entrepreneurship must complete the foundation level (core) unit of study IBUS5011 Foundations of Entrepreneurship as the prerequsite for the major.

To obtain an Entrepreneurship major, students must complete four units of study (24 credit points), selected from the following:

• CLAW6008 Legal Entities for Small Business *
• ECON6024 Private Equity
• IBUS6007 International Business Special Project
• IBUS6012 International Entrepreneurship
• IBUS6013 Entrepreneurial Restructuring and Renewal
• IBUS6014 Intellectual Property Management
• IBUS6015 Innovation and Enterprise Special Project
• IBUS6016 Social Entrepreneurship (New unit for 2009)
• IBUS6017 Enterprise and the Creative Industries (New unit for 2009)
• MKTG6004 New Product Development
• MKTG6013 International and Global Marketing
• MKTG6015 Electronic Marketing *
• MKTG6019 Marketing in the Asia-Pacific Region
• WORK6121 Founders of Enterprise (New unit for 2009)

Please Note:

1. The units of study marked with an "*" will NOT be available for 2009 enrolments.
2. The foundation level unit of study MKTG5001 Marketing Principles is the prerequisite for all of the MKTG units of study within this major. For other non-IBUS units of study other prerequisites may apply.

Availability of this major

This version of this major is available under the Master of Commerce, Master of Commerce and Master of Facilities Management, Master of Commerce and Master of Logistics Management, Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting, Master of International Business and Master of Commerce and Master of Transport Management and Master of Commerce.

Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Commerce or the Master of Professional Accounting may choose units from this major subject area as electives in their course.

The following is a list of the elective units of study from the Faculty of Economics and Business which are available for enrolment this year.

Students must complete the following prerequisite unit/s for this major: IBUS5011 Foundations of Entrepreneurship.

• ECON6024 Private Equity
• FINC6017 Mergers and Acquisitions
• IBUS6007 International Business Special Project
• IBUS6012 International Entrepreneurship
• IBUS6013 Entrepreneurial Restructuring & Renewal
• IBUS6014 Intellectual Property Management
• IBUS6015 Innovation & Enterprise Special Project
• MKTG6004 New Product Development
• MKTG6013 International and Global Marketing
• MKTG6019 Marketing in the Asia-Pacific Region

• Master of Commerce (FC014)
• Master of Commerce (Honours) (FC045)
• Master of Commerce and Master of Facilities Management (FC053)
• Master of Commerce and Master of Logistics Management (FC040)
• Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting (FC061)
• Master of International Business and Master of Commerce (FC042)
• Master of Transport Management and Master of Commerce (FC035)

• Discipline of Business Law
• Discipline of Economics
• Discipline of International Business
• Discipline of Marketing
• Faculty of Economics and Business
• University of Sydney