Business Management, BA Honours

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  • Ucas Code: N200
  • Course Duration: 3 or 4 years

This degree provides you with the skills necessary to analyse structures and problems, plan strategies and produce results in real managerial situations. It combines an academic approach to generic and functional management issues, with an understanding of the strategic and operational context of businesses. You study subjects such as the structure of organisations, the economic models within which they operate and human resource management.

Course Content

Stage 1 provides a foundation in business and management including

  • the study of organisations and management,
  • accounting,
  • marketing economics,
  • quantitative techniques and
  • key personal skills.

Stage 2 builds on this through the study of

  • organisational behaviour,
  • business systems,
  • technology management, and
  • human resource management.

Between Stages 2 and 3 students have the option of undertaking a work placement with an approved organisation or spending one year studying at a partner university in Europe . Alternatively, students can proceed directly to Stage 3.

Stage 3 provides a broad selection of optional modules which allows students to specialise in a particular area such as

  • human resource management,
  • marketing,
  • public services management,
  • operations management, and
  • innovation and creativity.