Course content
Year One - Level C
Duration of this level is approximately 18 months. Each unit shown is worth 20 credit points (University CAT points*).
Introduction to Economics
To introduce you to fundamental economic concepts and their applications; enabling you to apply economic principles in the analysis of contemporary economic issues and problems. This will help you develop an understanding of the operation of markets, including the interaction between related markets and the impact of economic policies on business and society in the context of a global economy.
Legal Relationships
This unit will embed the core legal principles and concepts within the legal environment for a graduate operating in the finance and business sector. The main contractual and tortuous relationships will be addressed and the identification of legal resources both printed and electronic will be utilised for legal problem solving.
Marketing
This unit aims to provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals of marketing to enable students to develop marketing approaches for a range of marketing scenarios.
Introduction to Management
This unit aims to help you develop the self-awareness, skills, behaviours, attributes and competences to make you an effective, independent and credible professional for the Information Age. The unit embraces three distinct topic areas: personal and professional development; information management; and people, work and society.
International Awareness and Management Ethics
The unit aims to enable you to gain an appreciation of, and demonstrate the ability to apply, principles of effective communication and team-working in an international context and to develop your understanding of cross-cultural theory and its application to practical business situations.
Accounting and Quantitative Analysis
This unit aims to provide you with a sound foundation in the fundamentals of accounting, together with a basic understanding of the regulatory framework. It also aims to provide an experience of basic quantitative techniques and skills, and to give you confidence in communicating numerically as well as verbally.
After successful completion of this level of the course, you will gain 120 credit points and will either be able to leave the course with a Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE) or progress to the next level ...
Year Two - Level I
Duration of this level is approximately 18 months. Each unit shown is worth 20 credit points (unless stated).
Core units (compulsory):
Understanding Organisations and Human Resource Management
The unit will develop the key themes of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management. It aims to provide you with frameworks for analysing and making sense of organisational life and your own personal experience of behaviour in the workplace. It will also introduce concepts and techniques that will enhance your ability to manage others and operate effectively within organisations.
Financial Analysis
The aims of this unit are to you with the ability to read and interpret the financial statements of a limited company, with a view to decision making. In addition, the ability to interpret and prepare management information through a variety of techniques will increase your employability prospects.
Project Management
The aim of this unit is to introduce you to an awareness of project management knowledge, together with an understanding of the role and responsibilities of different stakeholders. The unit explores the theories and practices associated with effective Project Management, as appropriate to a variety of business and technical environments. You will evaluate a range of techniques that are available for effective project management in the context of organisational change and complexity.
Operations Management
This unit aims to provide you with a detailed understanding of issues in operations management. It will equip you with problem solving and decision making skills during seminar and self-managed learning activities
Option Units**:
Small Business Management
This unit aims to develop an understanding of the role of small businesses in the economy and to analyse the different requirements and problems of small businesses. This includes identifying and assessing the specific characteristics, analysing the marketing needs, methods and strategies and examining the HRM and operational issues of SME’s.
Law for Business
You will develop further understanding of the core legal principles and concepts within the legal environment for a graduate operating in the finance and business sector. This will enable you to understand and critically evaluate the legal environment in which businesses operate in their relationships both externally and internally, ie with consumers, employees, shareholders and the company and with regard to intellectual property rights.
Consumer Behaviour and Market Research
This unit aims to extend your understanding of marketing and market research principles and practices, providing a critical understanding of consumer behaviour within marketing and the marketing planning process.
Working in an International Context
More and more study and employment opportunities require you to have linguistic and cultural sensitivity, sophisticated communication skills and the ability to work transnationally in a globalised environment. This unit aims to equip you with a portfolio of skills, attributes, knowledge and competences, which will enable you to conduct yourself professionally, credibly and effectively in an international working environment.
After successful completion of this level of the course, you will gain a further 120 credit points (240 in total) and you will either be able to graduate with a Foundation degree or Diploma of Higher Education or progress to the next level ...
Year Three - Level H
Duration of this level is approximately 18-19 months. Each unit is worth 20 credit points (unless stated). NB: If you already hold a HND or Foundation degree in a Business/Management or related subject you may be enter directly onto this level of the course, to top-up your qualification to a full Honours degree.
Core Units (compulsory):
Strategic Management
This unit is designed to encourage you to develop intellectual and professional attributes that are needed for strategic analysis, to make appropriate choices between alternative strategies, and then to implement the chosen strategies with the desired results.
Contemporary Issues in Management
The aim of this unit is to enable you to gain a critical appreciation of a range of contemporary and pervasive issues that impact on organisations, managers and employees. It aims to give you an insight into topical business issues, including the increasingly globalised environment in which businesses operate.
Entrepreneurship
This unit will explore how individuals and teams can create new businesses or transform existing ones by undertaking innovative entrepreneurial activities. The emphasis will be on the requirements of the small enterprise and the small business owner.
International Marketing Management
You will gain a critical and systematic view of the major perspectives, theoretical approaches, principles and activities in international marketing management. You will explore the theory used for the analysis of both international marketing environments and the development of marketing programmes within them.
You’ll develop analytical skills which allow you to explore the issues raised by different international market situations and provide appropriate recommendations in response to them.
Option Units**:
Starting a Business
This unit will explore the practicalities of starting a small business. Start-up survival and reasons for failure will be examined as well as the suitability of Government and Enterprise initiatives to support business start-ups. You will also conduct research into legal issues that may affect business ventures.
Operations Strategy
This unit allows you to explore issues of operations management within a strategic context and aims to develop your understanding of how operations strategies can be devised and implemented. It addressed one of the problems that organisations often have - not seeing the strategic importance of their operations management capabilities.
Modern day organisation have to excel in any of the following – mass customization, lean production, agile manufacturing, customer-centric provision and so on, and their ability to do so requires the right capabilities to reside within operations.
Advanced Project Management
Research over the last decade, such as that carried out by the ‘Standish Group’ and other researchers, repeatedly shows that more than 50% of projects are late, over budget and fail to achieve the performance required.
The aim of this unit is for to enable you to identify both the potential weaknesses and strengths in the existing PM methods and knowledge, and to be able to propose new success factors and competences which will improve the chance of future project success.
International Management
You will develop a critical awareness of International Management policy, practice and processes of multinational or transnational organisations in our dynamic globalised world. Your international awareness and competence will be enhanced as you appreciate the nature and complexity of International Organisations and Management issues.
You will be able to critically evaluate International Management policy, practices and processes and be able to contribute to the formulation, communication and implementation of management policy and practice in both national and international contexts. You’ll appreciate the requirement of sensitivity through your understanding of national, institutional and cultural differences and the associated management and behavioural issues.
Research Study
In this unit you will be provided with the opportunity to develop skills in conducting an effective research project. You will collect and critically analyse appropriate and credible secondary and/or primary data and formulate and evaluate outcomes, demonstrating a critical and contemporary understanding of the research environment.
Project
This unit provides you with the opportunity to conduct a business-related project, which will be of demonstrable benefit to an organisation (or society), in terms of its ability to perform effectively in the contemporary business environment.
People Resourcing and Development
This unit aims to provide a critical understanding of the main issues and themes in people resourcing and development. It explores the relationship of resourcing and development to the wider HR function and the contribution it makes to organisation strategy and performance
After successful completion of this level of the course, you will have gained 360 credits and will be able to graduate with a BA (Hons) International Business and Management award and/or progress to the next level ... Postgraduate (Masters level) study ...
(*)The CATS (Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme) points system is recognised by all UK Higher Education institutions as a method of quantifying credit for a particular course.
** Important note: Not all options will be available in any academic year. Availability will be subject to a number of factors including minimum and maximum numbers and resourcing. We reserve the right to withdraw, amend or substitute options in any academic year.
