Information Package / Course Catalogue
Critical Thinking, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Course Code: MVU260
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to present critical thinking and interpretation approaches and apply these approaches in order to strengthen creativity and innovation and entrepreneurship.

Course Content

Contemporary theories and approaches to thinking about inductive and deductive methods, ways of critical evaluation, creative thinking process, relationships between creativity and innovation, application of innovation and using innovation as a core talent for entrepreneurship are taught in this course.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Ins. Emrah BAŞ
Learning Outcomes
1.Use social relations to exchange ideas about entrepreneurship
2.Act as a member of a team in solving problems encountered in entrepreneurship.
3.Develops conformity between their behaviors and behaviors needed for different entrepreneurship issues.
4.Draws comments from the results of entrepreneurship activities.
5.Uses telecommunications to set people up for entrepreneurship issues.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Lecture Notes
2.Stamm, V.B., Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity, John Wiley and Sons, USA, 2008.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction: creativity, innovation, using them to solve problems and using them in thinking process, basic concepts about entrepreneurship
Week 2 - Theoretical
Use for mind mapping and creativity
Week 3 - Theoretical
Relationships between creativity and innovation
Week 4 - Theoretical
Relationships between creativity and innovation
Week 5 - Theoretical
Environmental variables affecting creativity and innovation
Week 6 - Theoretical
The human face of creativity and innovation: culture and its effects
Week 7 - Theoretical
The human face of creativity and innovation: the psychology of decision-making and its effects
Week 8 - Theoretical
Creativity and innovation in groups
Week 9 - Theoretical
Creativity and innovation in groups
Week 10 - Theoretical
Creativity and innovation in organizations
Week 11 - Theoretical
Innovative entrepreneurship and its features
Week 12 - Theoretical
Innovative entrepreneurship and its features
Week 13 - Theoretical
Ethics in creativity and innovation and its relationship with entrepreneurship
Week 14 - Theoretical
General Evaluation
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory102130
Lecture - Practice121012
Assignment80216
Reading5015
Midterm Examination1516
Final Examination1516
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026