This course is designed to equip you with the business knowledge and skills needed in today's global economy and provides a general business education that will prepare students for a wide variety of managerial careers.
It will prepare you for a variety of employment opportunities in major areas of business. A carefully designed and employer-supported management development programme runs through the first two years of your degree.
This suite of courses allows you to specialise in one of seven distinct streams or to follow the integrated course. All business and management students study the same modules in the first year of the course. Final year modules are different according to your selected stream.
This course is designed to equip you with the business knowledge and skills needed in today's global economy and provides a general business education that will prepare students for a wide variety of managerial careers.
It will prepare you for a variety of employment opportunities in major areas of business. A carefully designed and employer-supported management development programme runs throughout the degree.
This suite of courses allows you to specialise in one of seven distinct streams or to follow the integrated course. All business and management students study the same modules in the first year of the course. Final year modules are different according to your selected stream.
The second year focus is on the management of business operations and functional areas; this will develop and deepen your understanding of the subjects in which you choose to specialise. You will take modules relating to core areas of management and continue to enhance your management skills as the course unfolds. You may also continue to study a language.
You can confirm your original choice of degree or change to any of the other degrees in the suite. You may wish to study a range of modules covering a number of major management functions.
Year 2
Financial Planning and Control
This module develops your understanding of how accounting information can be used by management to plan and control the activities of the organisation. It also gives an appreciation of other uses of accounting information, including an introduction to the Stock Exchange and the City, and the audit process.
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Management Development Programme II
This module extends the learning in the first year of the course with further focus on personal and career development.
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Principles of Marketing
The module introduces you to the principles of marketing in a business and management context, focusing on the role of marketing within the organisation and its interaction with other business functions. The module also helps you to develop practical marketing abilities.
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Year 2 Electives
Choose three from
Quantitative and Statistical Analysis
You will examine the relevant mathematical aspects of economic analysis that are important for a full appreciation of analytical and quantitative economics.
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Organisational Behaviour
This module will develop a wide-ranging analysis and understanding of the behaviour of people at work as well as the dynamics of work organisations.
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Operations Management I
This module will review the relevant techniques for the analysis and management of business operations, with particular reference to the manufacturing industry. It will also introduce the concept of systems analysis and its relevance to manufacturing, supply, transport and service operations. The module will also examine OM at the tactical level.
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Language Option
You may continue to study a language.
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Year 3
Corporate Strategy
In this module you will acquire an organisation-wide perspective through exploring strategic planning and processes, and learn to relate strategic models and theories to the real world of organisational success and failure. You will develop your analytical and evaluative skills through problem/case analysis and develop your team working and problem-solving skills to evaluate objectively your peers' performance.
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Management Simulation OR Management Practice and Research: Dissertation (choose 1 of the 2 following options)
Management Simulation
This module develops your ability to implement, review and appraise business strategy, objectives and management decisions within the context of a dynamic, competitive market environment. You will develop understanding of the complex interactions that characterise decision-making in organisations, and consequently the importance of thinking beyond a single functional perspective. You will also develop your understanding of the nature and use of planning in dynamic business environments and improve your employability through experience of real-time business decision-making in a simulated environment.
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The following module is only available to students who have taken the Industrial placement year:
Management Practice and Research: Dissertation
You will identify and focus on a specialist area of research related to an aspect of your degree course; execute a substantial piece of independent research and produce a scholarly and critical dissertation.
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Year 3 Electives
Choose four from
Advanced Business Law
The module aims to examine the substantive law within a range of specialist legal obligations arising in a business context; and to develop your skills of negotiation, drafting and interpretation. You will also review the impact of EU law on business obligations.
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Business Ethics
The module aims to raise awareness of the ethical dimensions of, and changing societal pressures on, businesses and other organisations; and develop your ability to reflect upon your own learning and understanding of ethics. You will learn to argue without prejudice or bias for particular ethical or value standpoints relevant to businesses or organisations.
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Company Law
You will acquire a sound knowledge of the legal framework relating to companies and their management, and develop the capability to apply legal principles in the solution of business and management problems arising in a corporate context. You will also gain an appreciation of the impact of policy and the wider business context on corporate legal developments.
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Employment Law
You will develop an understanding of those aspects of employment law which provide the legal framework for employment relationships and regulate the working environment, and extend your understanding of legal methodology and your abilities in legal reasoning.
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Intellectual Property Law
In this module you will examine the substantive law within a range of scenarios involving IPR in a business context. You will develop your skills of negotiation, problem solving and interpretation of complex legal documents, and review the impact of global legal and commercial influences on the protection and exploitation of IPR.
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