MG305

New Venture Creation

COURSE OUTLINE
1. SEMESTER/YEAR: Semester 1, 2023
2. MODE OF DELIVERY/LOCATION: Face to Face at Laucala Campus
3. PRE-REQUISITES: Any two 200 Level MG courses or TS207 and one 200 Level TS course
4. COURSE COORDINATOR: Dr Atishwar Pandaram
5. TEACHING TEAM
Name: Dr Atishwar Pandaram Name: Pariniappa Goundar
Office: S203 Office: FBE
Phone: 3232482 Phone: 3231566
Email: atishwar.pandaram@usp.ac.fj Email: pariniappa.goundar@usp.ac.fj
Consultation Hours: TBA Consultation Hours: TBA

6. LECTURE TIMES & VENUE:

DAY TIME VENUE
Tue 9-10 am 092-003
Wed 2-3 pm 092-001

TUTORIAL TIMES AND VENUE: To be advised later - once tutor availability is confirmed
and signing for tutorial slots via Moodle will be available on week 1.

DAY TIME VENUE

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7. EMERGENCY CONTACT
Name: Susan Tafuna’i-Mani (School Secretary)
Phone: 3232137
Email: tafunaimani_s@usp.ac.fj

8. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course, which explores the skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to create and
manage new ventures, focuses on finding and developing opportunities for promising
new enterprises with growth potential. It will also focus on the design and
management of enterprise support services for nurturing new and existing businesses.
Key objectives are to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to assess
their own potential as entrepreneurs, assess the viability of new venture
opportunities; and, prepare a detailed business plan (or project proposal).

9. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
LO1 Evaluate financial statements needed for any entrepreneurial venture—the
balance sheet, income statement, and cash-flow statements.
LO2 Develop a complete business plan.
LO3 Utilize the legal forms of organization—sole proprietorship, partnership,
incorporated companies in businesses.
LO4 Use the existing informal risk-capital market (including ‘angel capital’) in
raising capital.
LO5 Assess the importance of family businesses and their unique problems.

10. GENERIC SMPA PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

Students will be able to:
PGO1 Collaborate effectively in the practice of management and public administration
in organisations in the Pacific Region and global contexts.
PGO2 Apply critically key principles, theories, and concepts of management, public
administration to practical scenarios in a range of contexts.
PGO3 Design academic research using appropriate methods and processes, presenting
findings in the required manner.
PGO4 Communicate effectively in a range of organizational contexts including cross-
cultural contexts.
PGO5 Solve problems and challenges innovatively in management and public
administration, in a range of contexts in the Pacific Region and internationally.
PGO6 Demonstrate ethical and professional standards in all aspects of workplace and
scholarly contexts.

USP GRADUATE OUTCOMES

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 The USP graduate outcomes are as follows:
GO1 Communication: Graduates will choose appropriate language and modes of
communication to share ideas and capture understanding.
GO2 Creativity: Graduates will generate new ideas and approaches to solve
problems.
GO3 Critical thinking: Graduates will evaluate ideas and opinions before forming a
conclusion.
GO4 Ethics: Graduates will apply ethical reasoning to their actions and decision-
making.
GO5 Pacific consciousness: Graduates will recognize the cultural heritage, and
diversity of Pacific societies.
GO6 Professionalism: Graduates will apply professional principles, values and ethics
to their work.
GO7 Teamwork: Graduates will collaborate with people of diverse perspectives to
achieve goals.

11. COURSE CONTENT

CHAPTER
READINGS
WEEK COURSE CONTENT DETAILS (Frederick et al.,
2020)

1 Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship 1

Definition of entrepreneur Approaches to
entrepreneurship
Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs
Small Business Development in the South Pacific
Entrepreneurship in the South Pacific Problems of Definition
and Nature of Small Firms
The Role of Small-Scale Enterprises Personal
requirements for success in business
Why people go into business Reading
2 Entrepreneurial Mind and Behaviour 2
The dark side of entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial risk
Stress and entrepreneur Entrepreneurial risk and ego
Entrepreneurship and sustainable development

3 Ethical, Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship 3

Defining entrepreneurial ethics Ethics and laws
Strategy for ethical responsibility Business ethics in the
cross-cultural world
Social and Sustainable entrepreneurship
4 Pathways to Entrepreneurial Ventures 4
Bootstrapping and minipreneurship
Acquiring an established business
Family venturing and succession

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 5 Opportunity Identification and the creative pursuit of 5
innovative ideas
The role of creativity
Theories and sources of opportunity
Sources of opportunity

6 Design thinking for entrepreneurial ventures 6

Ways to think about design
Designedly mindsets
Design thinking process models
7 Lean Entrepreneurship and Identifying customer needs 7
Methods of experimental validation

8 Lean Marketing and Business Design Model 8

Lean marketing
Guerrilla marketing
Lean Business Modelling

9 Measuring performance for 12

Entrepreneurial Ventures Importance of financial
statements Preparation of financial statements
Implications of capital budgeting
Usefulness of break-even and ratio analysis Cash flow analysis
Sustainability performance measures

10 Development of a Sustainable Business 11

Plan
Importance of a business plan
What is a sustainable business plan? Benefits of a Business Plan
Segments of a business plan
Preparation and presentation of a business plan
11 Legal and Regulatory Challenges 10
Sole Trader or Proprietorship Partnerships
Bankruptcy
Company, Limited Company Joint Ventures
Legal Requirements to Start a Business Some Common Law
Rights and Responsibilities
Intellectual property rights – patents, trade
secrets, copyright, trade marks

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 12 Sources of capital for entrepreneurial 13
ventures
Sources of financial capital
Debt and equity methods of financing Commercial loans and
public stock offerings
Informal risk capital market Angel financing
Venture capital market Private placement
13 Strategic entrepreneurial growth 9
Strategic entrepreneurship for emerging ventures
– the nature of planning in emerging firms
– strategic planning
– the nature of operational planning Entrepreneurial strategy
Strategic sustainable development Managing entrepreneurial
growth venture development stages building the adaptive firm
transition from an entrepreneur to manager attaining
entrepreneurship leadership in the new millennium
Going global
14 Valuing and Harvesting Entrepreneurial Ventures 14
Reasons for acquisition
Business valuation in practice
Valuation methods
Sources of succession
Barriers to succession planning

Additional Reading

Week 1
Naidu, S., Patel, A., Chand, A (2021), “Global Supply Chain disruptions during the COVID-19
Health Crisis, Springer Nature, pp. 1-14

Wang, Y. (2004), “Financing difficulties and structural characteristics of SMEs in China”, China
and World Economy, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 34-49.

Week 2
Singh, G., Pathak, R. D. and Naz, R. (2010), “Issues faced by SMEs in the internationalization
process: results from Fiji and Samoa”, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 5 Issue 2,
pp. 153 – 182.

Naidu, S. and A. Chand, A. (2011), “A comparative study of the financial problems faced by
micro, small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector of Fiji and Tonga”,
International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol 7 No. 2, pp. 245-262.

Week 3
Light, I. and Dana, L. P. (2013), Boundaries of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship, Special Issue:
Social Capital and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice May Vol. 37, Issue
3, May, pp. 603–624.

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Estrin, S., Mickkiewicz, T. and Stephan, U. (2013), “Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, and
Institutions: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship Across Nations”, Special Issue: Social
Capital and Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice May Vol. 37 Issue 3, pp.
479–504.

Week 4
Cahn, M. (2008), “Indigenous entrepreneurship, culture and micro-enterprise in the Pacific
Islands: case studies from Samoa”, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Vol. 20 No. 1,
pp.11-12.

Thevaruban, J.S. (2009), “Small scale industries and its financial problems in Sri Lanka”, Journal
of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol. 1 No. 5, pp. 33-46.
(accessed October 20, 2014).

Week 5
Pandaram. A. and Appana, S. (2007), “Augmenting Employee Performance and Productivity in
Labour Markets through application of Total Quality Management”, The Asia Pacific Economic
Journal, Vol 4 No 2, pp 155-170.

Morrison, K. (2008), “Indigenous entrepreneurship in Samoa in the face of neo-colonialism and

globalization”, Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy,
Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 240-253.

Week 6
Maes, J. and Seis, L. (2014), “SMEs' Radical Product Innovation: The Role of Internally and
Externally Oriented Knowledge Capabilities”, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 52,
Issue 1, pp. 141-163.

Morris, M. H. and Davis, D. L. (1994), “Fostering corporate entrepreneurship: Cross cultural

comparisons of the importance of individualism versus collectivism”, Journal of International
Business Studies, Vol. 25 No. 1, p. 65-89.

Week 7
Kellerman, F. W., Eddleston, K. A. and Zellweger, T. M. (2012), “
Extending the Socioemotional Wealth Perspective: A Look at the Dark Side, Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice”, Special Issue on Family Business, Vol 36, Issue 6, November, pp. 1175–
1182.

Pandaram. A. and Appana, S. (2007), “Augmenting Employee Performance and Productivity in

Labour Markets through application of Total Quality Management”, The Asia Pacific Economic
Journal, Vol 4 No 2, pp 155-170.

Week 8
Giroux, I. (2009), “Problem solving in small firms: an interpretative study”, Journal of Small
Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 167-84.

Rose, R.C., Kumar, P. and Yen, L.M. (2006), “The dynamics of entrepreneurs success factors in
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influencing venture growth”, Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Vol. 2 No. 3,
pp. 5-25.

Week 9
Datta, D. (2010), “Small business finance: implications of delay in loan sanctions by formal
sector”, International Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 130-139.

Cennamo, C., Berrone, P., Cruz, C. and Gomez-Mejia, L. R. (2012), “Socio-emotional Wealth and
Proactive Stakeholder Engagement: Why Family-Controlled Firms Care More about Their
Stakeholders”, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Special Issue on Family Business,
November Volume 36, Issue 6, pp. 1153–1173.

Edmister, R.O. (1972), “An empirical test for financial ratio analysis for small business failure
prediction”, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 1477-1493.

Week 10
Schworm, W.E. (1980), “Financial constraints and capital accumulation”, International
Economic Review, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 643-660.

Scott, S. (2007), “The importance of cash flow analysis for small businesses”, Commercial
Lending Review, March/April, pp. 41-50

Week 11
Giloth, R.P. (2007), “Investing in equity: targeted economic development for neighbourhood
and cities”, in Bennett, M.I.J. and Giloth, P.R. (Eds), Economic Development in American Cities:
The Pursuit of an Equity Agenda, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, pp. 1-50.

Curry, G. (2005), “Doing business in Papua New Guinea: The social embeddedness of small
business enterprises”, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp.231-
46.

Week 12
Wu, J., Song, J. and Zeng, C. (2008), “An empirical evidence of small business financing in
China”, Management Research News, Vol. 31 No. 12, pp. 959-79.

Gentry, R., Daiziel, T. and Jamison, M. A. (2013), “Who Do Start‐Up Firms Imitate? A Study of
New Market Entries in the Clec Industry”, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 51 Issue
4, October, pp. 525-538.

Week 13
Ruefli, T. W., Collins, J. M. and LaCugna, J. R. (1999), “Risk Measures in Strategic Management
Research: Auld Lang Syne?”, Strategic Measurement Journal, Vol 20, pp. 167-94.

Majumdar, S., Moussawi, R. and Yaylacicegi, U. (2014), “Do Incumbents’ Mergers Influence
Entrepreneurial Entry? An Evaluation”, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 38, Issue 3,
May, pp. 601–633.

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Pandaram. A. and Amosa, D. (2010), “Family business concerns in Fiji: an empirical
investigation”, Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 116-125.

Welsh, D. H. B., Memili, E., Kaciak, E. and Ochi, M. (2014), “Japanese Women Entrepreneurs:
Implications for Family Firms”, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 286-
305.

Lichtenthaler, U. and Muethel, M. (2012), “The Impact of Family Involvement on Dynamic

Innovation Capabilities: Evidence From German Manufacturing Firms”, Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, Special Issue on Family Business, Vol. 36, Issue 6, pp. 1235–1253.

12. PRESCRIBED TEXT AND OTHER RESOURCES

Howard H. Frederick, Allan O’Connor and Donald F. Kuratko (2020), ‘Entrepreneurship, Theory,
Process, and Practice, 5th Edition, Cengage Learning, Victoria, Australia.

Supplementary Reading
1. Island Business (www.islandsbusiness.com/aboutus/publications)
2. Fiji Times (www.fijitimes.com.fj)
3. Fiji Sun (www.fijisun.com.fj)
4. World Trade Organization (www.wto.org)
5. News websites (www.fijivillage.com; www.fijilive.com)
More references for journals will be given in the duration of the course.

Referencing guide
Use Harvard referencing style to acknowledge all sources used for
your assignments, such as:
Surname, initials of first name(s), year of publication, title of book or article,
publisher name, city where the publication took place. For more details visit
the website: http://www.usp.ac.fj/?id=16266.

Journals
Asia Pacific Business Review
Asia Pacific Journal of Management Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Family Business Review
International Small Business Journal
Journal of Business
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship Journal of Small Business Management
International Journal of Entrepreneurship
Students must have access to the MG305 FF Moodle web page to access lectures and other
supplementary materials.
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 13. ALIGNMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES, ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT
The following table demonstrates the alignment of the course learning outcomes to appropriate teaching and learning activities,
assessments, and links them to USP graduate outcomes.

Associated Teaching and Learning Programme USP Graduate

Course Learning Outcome Assessment
Activities Outcomes Outcomes

LO1 Evaluate financial statements Lectures, Assignment (group project) PG03, PG05, PG06 GO1, G05
needed for any entrepreneurial venture— online discussion and face to Mid Semester Test and Final
the balance sheet, income statement and face tutorials Exam
cash-flow statements. Tutorial
LO2 Develop a complete business plan Lectures, Assignment (group project) PGO2, PG03, PG05 G01, GO2, G05,
online discussion and face to Mid Semester Test and Final GO7
face tutorials Exam
Tutorial
LO3 Utilize the legal forms of Lectures, Assignment (group project) PGO2, PG03, PG04, G01, G05, GO6
organization—sole proprietorship, online discussion and face to Mid Semester Test and Final PG06 and GO7
partnership, incorporated companies in face tutorials Exam
businesses. Tutorial
LO4 Use the existing informal risk- Lectures, Assignment (group project) PG03, PG04, PGO6 G01, GO4 and
capital market (including ‘angel capital’) in online discussion and face to Mid Semester Test and Final G05
raising capital. face tutorials Exam
Tutorial
Tutorial
LO5 Assess the importance of Lectures, Assignment PG01, PG02, PG03, G01, GO3, GO4,
family businesses and their unique online discussion and face to and Final Examination PG04, PGO5, PG06 GO5 and G07
problems face tutorials

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14. ASSESSMENT
14.1 ASSESSMENT PORTFOLIO
TYPE OF LEARNING
WEIGHT COMMENTS/RATIONALE
ASSESSMENT OUTCOME
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Mid Semester Test 20% Test learning outcomes1-5; LO1 - LO5
coverage: week 1-6.
Group Project 15% Test learning outcomes1-5; LO1 - LO5
group based project.
Tutorial 10% Test learning outcomes1-5; LO1 - LO5
based on weekly questions.
On-line Quiz 5% Test learning outcomes1-5; LO1 - LO5
based on coverage for weeks 1-
4.
FINAL EXAMINATION
Final examination 50% Written exam for 3 hours LO1 - LO5

Assessment 1: Mid-Semester Test (20%)

This test will be held before the mid-semester break in week 7 at the specified venue. More
details of the exam venue will be given later. The actual date/time will be confirmed later. The
test will consist of essay type, short answer questions, and case(s) based on the materials
covered in lectures/tutorials. Cheating (copying, allowing others to copy, coming to the test
venue with written notes, talking during the test, checking or comparing answers) will be dealt
with severely and such students will be sent to the disciplinary committee.

Assessment 2: Group Project (15%)—Business Plan, Due: week 9, 19 April, 6.00 pm

MG305 students are requested to organize themselves into groups of 3. The length of
the group project report will be no more than 40 pages. The Group paper will be submitted
in as a hard copy as well as through Moodle. [Each paper must go through Turnitin, and
must have a ‘Similarity Level’ below 20% for academic honesty purposes.]

For the term project, you are requested to develop a sustainable business plan (see chapter 11 of
the MG305 textbook (5th edition); and read the sample business plan in the textbook).

Suppose you are an extremely successful and talented software engineer in Fiji (or in any South
Pacific Island country) in a large and very renowned software firm that has branches
throughout the world. You have recently been appointed the chief executive officer of the firm.
One day you decide that you intend to establish your own software firm, but you require
significant capital funding. Additionally, you have come across various success stories about
venture capitalists funding the establishment of numerous software firms. Hence, you decide
to seek funding from the venture capitalist via submission of a ‘business plan’.

This business plan will be submitted to the venture capitalist to procure funding for the setting up
of the new software firm.

The sustainable business plan that you develop must cover the following segments:

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executive summary, business description, sustainability segment, marketing segment, operations
segment, sustainability development measures of performance, management segment, financial
segment, critical-risks segment, harvest strategy segment, milestone schedule segment and
appendix/bibliography.

Note:
1. You need to make various relevant assumptions: size of the software firm, capital costs needed
to set up the firm, zoning requirements, use of the relevant technology, types of services you will
provide to your clients/markets; who will be your major clients, other types of costs you will be
incurring, etc.)

2. Software firms provide a lot of consultancy services (e.g. writing software programs for their
clients. Also, many manufacturing and service firms have outsourced a lot of their IT services to
many software firms.

3. A question many will ask: How much funds will we require from the venture capitalist? It
depends on the size of the firm, set up costs, infrastructure costs, etc. It can be $20 million or
$50 million, etc. You make your own assumptions but justify them.

This project is the major assessment since it relates to all learning outcomes of this course. The
purpose of the group project is to apply your understanding of the marketing concepts that
you will be exposed to in lectures. You will be asked to create your own groups in the first
tutorial class. Your group will consist of three members. Do take note of all possible contacts of
your group members. You are to manage your own groups. Should certain group members not
cooperate, delay, miss out on meetings; the majority in that group can ask that group member
to look for another group. Also, there must be a declaration page (attached to hardcopy
project) after the cover page stating that all members contributed equally. Indicate if
members contributed less than their share. Excuses of group members disappearing and not
contributing will not be entertained for delayed submission. Students need to choose an
organization and conduct research on it.

The structure and marking rubric criteria of the business plan is as follows:

Business Plan Structure Maximum Comments

Possible Marks
1. Executive summary 3
2. Business description 5 Refer to the detailed marking
3. Statement on Sustainability 10 rubric on Moodle for each
4. Marketing 10 section of the business plan.
5. Operations 10
6. Sustainability development 5
measures of performance
7. Management 10
8. Financial 15
9. Critical risks 12
10. Harvest strategy 10
11. Milestone schedule 5
12. Appendix/Bibliography 5
Total marks 100

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Page limits: Not to exceed 40 pages in length [excluding the references/bibliography]

Detailed marking rubric of the project will be available on Moodle. Please refer to Moodle for
the rubric.

Students are reminded that the Group project should address all of the elements as reflected
above. Students are required to support the analysis with reference to theory (from
textbook/lectures) on topic. Also, students are advised to refer to the most recent empirical
research in the field (from journals) to substantiate their analysis. Failure to cite outside
sources used in an assessment may lead to failure of the assessment overall. Likewise, use of
Wikipedia references may lead to failure of the assessment overall. As a group, you are to
work together and submit only one ‘softcopy’ of the group assignment in Moodle shell & also
submit one hardcopy for marking by the due date. All assignments submitted Online in Moodle
shell should have a similarity report attached (SafeAssign Score or also known as TurnItIn
Score) to the soft and hard copies as proof. Only similarity level of 0-20% will be regarded as
acceptable. Assignments will not be marked if the signed plagiarism declaration sheet and
TurnItIn SafeAssign Score is not attached.

Late assignments
Please note that due dates for assignments are to be strictly followed. Late submission of work
will result in a penalty of 10% of the possible mark for each day late. If there is a delay, notify
the coordinator in advance with proof of delay (e.g. sick-sheet etc...) and a draft of whatever
you did on the assignment on the due date. Very late assignments will be returned
unmarked. Timeliness is important.

For Submission of Project, Correct labelling of assignments and Marking/Writing Rubric: See
Moodle page of this course.

Assessment 3: Tutorial (10%)

Tutorials will commence in week 3 and students are expected to sign up online for one
tutorial session only. Students are expected to participate actively during tutorials.
Additionally, questions/cases for the tutorials for various weeks will be posted on Moodle and
students are expected to attempt them before attending the tutorial sessions.

Assessment 4: On-line Quiz (5%), Date: 10 March 2023 (Friday)

There will be an on-line quiz in week 4. The quiz will have multiple choice types of questions or
true/false questions. You will be informed of the dates of the quizzes through Moodle.

Assessment 5: Final Examinations (50%)

The end-of-semester examination will consist of one compulsory section that includes
calculations and case(s). The material covered during the semester will be included in the final
examination. Reminder: You MUST obtain at least a total of 20/50 marks for your course work
AND at least a total of 20/50 marks for your final examination and an overall aggregate of 50
marks to pass this course. The exam is based on lectures and materials covered during the
semester. The exact coverage for the final exam will be announced later via Moodle.
Remember that your final examination may differ in content and structure from the past year’s

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sample papers.

14.2 PASSING THE UNIT

In order to be awarded a pass in this unit, students must:
 Achieve an overall mark of at least 50% in the course.
 Participants are required to obtain a minimum of 40 per cent in both
components (coursework and final exam) in order to pass the course.

14.3 GRADE DISTRIBUTION

A+ A B+ B C+ C D E
85-100 78-84 71-77 64-70 57-63 50-56 40-49 0-39

14.4 ASSESSMENT POLICIES AND REGULATIONS

For detailed regulations, please refer to the USP Handbook and
Calendar.
Plagiarism, copying materials from other sources without proper referencing
and acknowledge of the source is a serious offence and will be dealt with severely.
In the Regulations Governing Academic Misconduct section of the USP Handbook &
Calendar plagiarism is defined as “the copying of another person’s creative work
and using it as one’s own – without explicitly giving credit to the original creator.
Work copied without acknowledgment from a book, from another student’s work,
from the internet or from any other source”. If the lecturer is satisfied that
plagiarism has occurred, they will report the matter to the Head of School. They can
reduce marks appropriately. If the matter is seen as serious enough it can be
taken to the Student Disciplinary Committee by the Head of School.

15. IMPORTANT DATES

Assessment Type Week Weighting (%)

Group project 9 15%
Mid Semester Test* 7 20%
Tutorial Continuous 10%
Quiz 4 5%

*Exact date and time will be confirmed on Moodle once classes start on week 1.

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 16. COURSE ATTENDANCE
16.1 TUTORIALS
Regular face-to-face local tutorial sessions will be organised with local tutors at
the Laucala campus. Tutorials will begin on week 3 of the semester and tutorial
signup will be done through Moodle on week 1. Since this is a face to face course,
students are encouraged to attend the tutorials.

17.0 STUDENT SUPPORT

17.1 ONLINE HELP & E-LEARNING INFORMATION
Students are urged to make maximum use of the grade books located on their
Moodle platform. Your grade books will be updated periodically by the course
coordinator so as to ensure that you keep track of your performance throughout the
semester. You need to send your assignments at scheduled due dates to ensure
regular and consistent feedback in your grade books. If you have any queries,
please send a message directly to course coordinator or the tutor.

17.2 FACULTY STUDENT LEARNING SUPPORT (SLS) SERVICES

There are a number of workshops and other services provided by the SLS. Please
refer to the following website for more information:
https://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=8434

18. EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS

18.1 Student Responsibilities
Students are expected to:
 Spend enough time on Moodle and other activities required in the course

 Facilitate the course coordinator with any proof that he/she was sick and unable
to attend classes or assessment at the earliest possible time to avoid getting a
zero mark for the missed assessment.
 Submit both the hardcopy and softcopy of the assignment. Hardcopy should
be properly labelled and submit to the local campus.

18.2 STUDENT WORKLOAD Per Week

TYPE HOURS COMMENTS

Attempting self-
assessment activities
Reading text book
chapters/ ppt slides posted
in Moodle
Writing and researching
assignment component
Accessing recorded
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35 Spend at least I hour per week attempting self-
assessment questions for each textbook and
course book chapter
30 A minimum of 3 hours per week to be spent on
text book reading and familiarization of teaching
materials posted in Moodle.
40 Spend approximately 2 hours per week on
writing, researching and presentation of
assignment.
30 Audio recordings will be available for students
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 lectures and tutorials
Preparing for MST, Project 50
and Final Examinations
Accessing and participating 30
Moodle/ online activities
TOTAL 215
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who cannot access these facilities at assigned
times.
This should be an ongoing activity and not to left
at the end of mid semester or semester break
An average of 30 minutes per day should be
assigned for this activity.
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