Level 3:

• EMP3001 Commercial and Industrial Experience (CANDI)

This module will provide you with an opportunity to undertake practical work experience (80 hours) in a business, commercial or public sector setting that is of direct relevance to your development as an experienced professional. You will apply the knowledge and skills from taught modules to authentic problem-solving in the workplace which will give you important insights into your potential job role once you graduate from university. You will be encouraged to use imagination and creativity in problem-solving and to develop communication skills, planning and time management and team-working skills. Placements will involve taking responsibility for a substantial project, which may be a problem to be solved in the host organisation, in line with your degree programme. Placements are subject to availability, approval by the relevant discipline lead and full compliance with important Health and Safety procedures and requirements.

Please note: This module is available only to students in the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy. You cannot take this module if you are undertaking yearlong Industrial Placement programmes.

To find out more, please email empsemployability@exeter.ac.uk

Level 2:

• BUS2004 Business Internships and Placements (15 credits)

For more information, please contact cles-employability@exeter.ac.uk.

Considering a career in teaching?

The Graduate School of Education 'Learning for Teaching' modules are intended for students who are considering a career in teaching.

Each module includes a series of introductory and preparatory lectures and seminars, school experience, ideally undertaken during university vacations, as well as the opportunity to reflect on your experience towards the end of the module.  

For more information and module descriptions, please see the Learning for Teaching website. 

If you have questions about the modules, or difficulties in registering, please see the Learning for Teaching FAQs or contact learningforteaching@exeter.ac.uk.

Please note, some disciplines do not include these modules in their students’ online module registration list. If this is the case, contact your course administrator to help you register.

Level 2:

• EDU2016 Learning for Teaching: School Experience (15 Credits)
• EDU2017 Learning for Teaching: School Experience (30 Credits)

Level 3:

• EDU3013 Learning for Teaching: School Experience (15 Credits)
• EDU3014 Learning for Teaching: School Experience (30 Credits)

Level 1:

• BEM1034 Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship (15 credits)

This module introduces the student to innovation and entrepreneurship theory and practice. Using case studies, this module delivers foundational knowledge in these subjects. You will explore the histories, theories, and frameworks associated with innovation and entrepreneurship and how they support business growth. The module will consider contemporary urgent global issues such as sustainability and inequity and explore how entrepreneurs are innovating to tackle the sources of these problems. This will all be brought together in a workshop setting where students will apply their new acquired knowledge to build a range of entrepreneurial skills.

Level 1:

• BEM1026 Impactful Entrepreneurship (15 Credits)

Impactful Entrepreneurship is a first-year elective that introduces students to technology and the circular economy while building creative confidence. In other words, the module seeks to develop student knowledge of innovation within the context of the circular economy. By exploring the latest trends in technology and their relationship to business, students will build a stronger contextual understanding. The lectures will be delivered entirely online and workshop time will be project based and immersive in nature. Through utilising the contemporary practice of design thinking and human centred design, students will explore technology and the emerging concept of the circular economy in order to create impactful solutions.

Level 2:

• BEM2036 Thinking Entrepreneurially (15 Credits)

This module explores what it means to think like an entrepreneur and how individuals in all types of organisations can use entrepreneurial practices to solve problems and create value.

The module’s core component is delivered online and covers research on how entrepreneurs ensure success through the use of entrepreneurial thinking. This is built on in a series of workshops that help the participants to build their entrepreneurial mindset.

Level 2:

• BEM2054 Acting Entrepreneurially (15 credits)

The module is designed to introduce students to how individuals behave entrepreneurially to create sustainable value using their available means. The module’s core components (e.g., Sustainable Value Creation; Effectual Entrepreneurship) are delivered online covering how to explore the feasibility, desirability, and viability of entrepreneurial ideas. We use a practice-based approach enabling students to experience the early stages of an entrepreneurial process through the development of their own entrepreneurial idea (which can be based on for-profit or non-profit logic).

Level 3:

• BEM3060 Managing Entrepreneurially (15 credits)

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of business in relation to entrepreneurial value creation. This module is about the core aspects of business including an overview of the impact that entrepreneurship has on the following subjects: accounting and finance, operations, business structures and types, talent management and marketing.

Level 3:

• BEM3061 Business Ignition - Idea to implementation (15 Credits)

This is a project-based course where students learn by working in a team to launch a real social enterprise that sells a real-life product or service. It provides an opportunity for students to revisit and gain practical experience with the tools and concepts they have learnt in previous entrepreneurship courses (as well as in other business and non-business courses). In addition, this course focuses on helping student practice navigating ambiguity and developing the “soft” business that must be learnt through structured practice. There are no required lectures or formal essays – student time for this class is dedicated to learning through acting in the real world. Online materials (including optional lectures and resources) will be provided to help students as they encounter common issues involved in launching a business. In-person instruction time will focus on creating a classroom “business accelerator” space where students can work through challenges with the instructor, other teams, and additional mentors.

Level 3:

• BEM3072 Entrepreneurial Futures (15 credits)

This module enhances practical entrepreneurial experiences and action that you have engaged with and enables reflection and the application of entrepreneurial learning gained from these experiences.

You must have completed or be currently enrolled on one of the below programmes available at Exeter:

• IKEEP (Intrapreneurial Knowledge Exchange Enterprise Programme)
• Start-up Pre-Incubator or Incubator
• Green Consultants

The module unpacks and builds on skills, competencies and mindset growth that have been gained during the programme and enhances this with activities and relevant entrepreneurship concepts, frameworks, and tools.

For more information, please visit the module page.

Level 3

• BEP3172 Future 17: Sustainable Goals Challenge (15 credits)

Future17 is designed to develop the skills needed to collaboratively tackle 21st Century global challenges and to work with professionals to create pathways towards innovative solutions to real-world issues that relate to one or more of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Future17 enables students to collaborate with learners from a consortium of global partner universities in international, interdisciplinary and multicultural teams to tackle challenges through projects defined by third-party organisations (businesses, charities, NGOs etc.). Students will first undertake an online induction programme that will develop skills for collaborative, challenge-based and intercultural learning, which promotes forms of Design Thinking for tackling global challenges. They will then work with academic and third-party mentors to diagnose a sustainable development challenge and develop an approach for developing one or more solutions. They will be assessed on the basis of a 1500 project report and presentation to a panel including representatives of the third-party organisation that set the challenge and academic staff from the partner universities along with other student groups at a showcase event.

For more information, you can also view the page on the Education without Borders page.

Level 2: 

• BEM2036 Thinking Entrepreneurially
• BEM2046 Entrepreneurial Value Creation

Level 3:

• BEM3060 Managing Entrepreneurially
• BEM3061 Business Ignition - Idea to Implementation

Level 2: 

• BEM2035 Leading in International Contexts
• BEM2037 Leadership: Challenges and Practice

Level 3:

• BEM3047 Contemporary Leadership Issues
• BEM3048A Leading Change in Practice
• BEM3048 Leading Change in Practice
• BEM3051 Organisational Development
• BEM3052 Managing Change and Crisis
• BEM3057 Employment Law for Managers

Level 2:

• BUS2001 Business Awareness: Theory and Practice