ENT 4370: Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship (December 2025)

This course explores critical contemporary issues affecting global and local societies, including economic, political, social, environmental, and technological challenges in Sri Lanka. Students will analyze current trends, debates, and policies through interdisciplinary approaches while developing problem-solving and critical-thinking skills and designing an advanced course.

The main objective of this course is to improve students’ ability to understand their surroundings and make a broad sense of the challenges before them in managing their entrepreneurial ventures. This will help a successful entrepreneur by addressing concurrent issues with context-sensitive strategies and contributing to the betterment of the entire world.

Activity-based and seminar methods will be used for the course to discuss different current issues in entrepreneurial business management. Experts in different fields related to issues will be invited (conditioned to availability) for discussions and learning methods, as well as learner-centered methods, which will be used for critics and reviews. Individual and group working methods are used to encourage students’ self-learning. The coverage includes entrepreneurial growth strategies, issues related to entrepreneurial business, potentialities, e-business, and entrepreneurialism, gender issues in entrepreneurship,  the effect of globalization on local entrepreneurs, and issues with many challenges in entrepreneurship enhancement programs in Sri Lanka. Further, the sessions mentioned in the lecture series may change depending on the crucial and critical contemporary issues. 


ENT 4271: Research Study I (December 2025)

The general objective of this course is to enhance the research competencies of the students through conducting closely guided independent research studies. By becoming familiar with the research process discussed in  ENT 3377– Research Methods in Entrepreneurship course students should be more confident and competent in doing their own research on their selected theme in the entrepreneurship research domain. A supervisor will be appointed to each student to maintain one-to-one contacts and closely supervise their individual research studies.

ENT 4372: Professional Skills Development II (December 2025)

ENT 4373: Sustainable Entrepreneurship (December 2025)

This is an advanced course in Sustainable Entrepreneurship. The course aims at describing the use of renewable system in a way that ensures that the system is maintained in its basic characteristics and can renew itself naturally. Since the social and environmental concerns are rising ever than before when comes to the modern business environment, this course will mainly identify the emerging trends in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship, develops innovative sustainable entrepreneurial solutions while addressing the ethical and CSR aspects of conducting business activities for both new startups and existing business organizations.