Business School

Enterprise Skills (COMM5008)

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The fast-paced, high-energy world of start-ups is a great environment to accelerate your enterprise career skills (and have a bit of fun along the way).  

Career Accelerator’s Enterprise Skills (COMM5008) program is designed in partnership with start-ups across Sydney, and combines industry-led workshops with up to 70 hours of work experience. This for-credit course (6UoC) is an opportunity to put your university learnings into practice, learn from some of Sydney’s true innovators, and put your unique strengths, insights and perspective to the test and work as part of a student team. 

This course is offered in Terms 1, 2 and 3. Please note that you must be based in Sydney to do this course.

Enrol now to take part in this exciting opportunity!

If the course is full you will be placed on a waitlist.

 
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  • Quite possibly! Enterprise Skills (COMM5008) is available to UNSW Business School postgraduate students. You’ll need to: 

    • Have space in your degree for COMM5008

    • Have completed at least 18 UOC  

    • Have completed Career Accelerator: Essentials (Login using student-enrolment key: Career_Accelerator)  

    Ensure you have space in your degree for this course. It is your responsibility to confirm whether this course will count within your program requirements. It’s recommended you refer to your program handbook and the progression plans to understand your current progression and program.

    This course can be completed instead of the specialisation capstone course. (Please check with your school as certain permissions may be required)

  • Enterprise Skills (COMM5008) assessment is satisfactory (SY)/unsatisfactory (FL) according to the standard UNSW scale. To pass the course, you must complete all course requirements and assessment tasks to a satisfactory level.

    Assessment tasks and weighting

    • Team project (50% overall)
      • Weekly progress report - 5%
      • Statement of need - 10% (Group) 
      • Individual research report - 15%
      • Professional report - 20% (Group) 
    • Reflection - 35%
      • 3 x video reflections + final reflection essay
    • Project deliverables - 15%
      • Incl. supervisor report, team charter and workshop participation 

Contact us

Please consult the most up to date UNSW Handbook for full course details.

For further enquiries, please email Career Accelerator.