Taught units
Discover opportunities to enhance your studies and career prospects with taught units in enterprise and entrepreneurship. Open to all students.
Enterprise and entrepreneurship education isn't just about starting a business. Entrepreneurship is about being resourceful, inventive, creative, imaginative, and ambitious.
Studying entrepreneurship at the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre equips you with skills to identify and act on opportunities in any setting and drive forward your ideas. It can enhance your studies and career prospects, and provide you with a cross-discipline campus-wide network of entrepreneurship students.
Whether you want to innovate within an existing organisation, elevate your side hustle, start your own business, or apply your problem-solving prowess for social or environmental impact, developing an entrepreneurial mindset can help you to create the future you want for you.
Select your level of study below and click on the course titles to read a summaries of the course units.
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|
| MCEL10001 | Exploring enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL10011 | Entrepreneurial Skills | 10 |
| UCIL22001 | Essential Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL21331 | Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset | 10 |
| MCEL30011 | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30001 | Tools & Techniques for Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30051 | Enterprise Strategy & Marketing | 10 |
| MCEL30111 | Developing Business Ideas | 10 |
| MCEL40031 | Enterprise Strategy & Marketing | 15 |
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|
| MCEL10002 | Entrepreneurial Skills | 10 |
| MCEL10022 | Exploring Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL22002 | Essential Enterprise | 10 |
| UCIL24002 | Entrepreneur: Innovator & Risk-Taker | 10 |
| MCEL30012 | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30122 | Enterprise in Healthcare (10 credits) | 10 |
| MCEL30122 | Enterprise in Healthcare (20 credits) | 20 |
| MCEL30022 | Interdisciplinary Sustainable Development | 10 |
| MCEL30002 | Tools & Techniques for Enterprise | 10 |
| MCEL30052 | Enterprise Feasibility | 10 |
| UCIL23002 | Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, marketing strategy and sustainability (10 Credits) |
10 |
| UCIL23022 | Introduction to Sports Business: Innovation, marketing strategy and sustainability (20 Credits) |
20 |
| UNIT CODE | SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL30031 | Computer Science (CS) | Enterprise Management for CS | 1 | 10 |
| MCEL30032 | Computer Science (CS) | Managing Finance in Enterprises for CS | 2 | 10 |
| MCEL30102 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) | Commercial Technology Development | 2 | 10 |
| MCEL40011 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) | Advanced Technology Enterprise | 1 | 15 |
| MCEL40042 | Computer Science (CS) | Business Feasibility Study | 2 | 15 |
| BIOL31080 | School of Biological Sciences (SBS) | Life Sciences Enterprise Project | 1&2 | 30 |
| UNIT CODE | UNIT TITLE | SEMESTER | CREDIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCEL60032 | Business Creation and Development | 2 | 15 |
| MCEL60021 | Shaping Ideas for the Market (Semester 1) | 1 | 15 |
| MCEL60022 | Shaping Ideas for the Market (Semester 2) |
2 | 15 |
| MCEL62101 | External Environment | 1 | 20 |
| MCEL62202 | Innovation Methods | 2 | 20 |
| MCEL62302 | Retail Marketing | 2 | 20 |
| MCEL63402 | Essential Risk Management for Business | 2 | 15 |
| MCEL60142 | Developing Enterprising Individuals | 2 | 15 |
| MCEL60091 (PhD) | Innovation & the Commercialisation of Research (Semester 1) | 1 | 15 |
| MCEL60092 (PhD) | Innovation & the Commercialisation of Research (Semester 2) | 2 | 15 |
| BIOL60760 | Commercialisation in Life Sciences (FBMH) | Full Year | 45 |
Sign up to these open electives on My Manchester with approval from your course administrator. Email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk if you would like to discuss these options in more detail.
To enrol on our elective units, use the Course Unit Selection System.
Course unit selection opens in August 2024. Your School will send you the open date and time for your programme, and the deadline to finish enrolling.
Guidance on using the new course unit selection system can be found here. The guide includes links to access the system.
Our electives require approval from your department. Please contact your Course Administrator before enrolling.
If you have approval but cannot see our units on the system, please contact your School, and also email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk
The process for enrolment is the same for all of our elective units, no matter the course code prefix (‘MCEL’, ‘UCIL’ or other).
Please note, some of our units are delivered in partnership with the University College of Interdisciplinary Learning, so have course codes beginning with ‘UCIL’. For more information about enrolling on UCIL Entrepreneurship units, please see further guidance on the UCIL site.
If you have any other questions about enrolling on Entrepreneurship elective units, please email entrepreneurship@manchester.ac.uk
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