What you'll study
The course consists of 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits, meaning you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more (e.g. 40 credits). In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120.
First year modules
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Compulsory
Accounting and Finance
Delve into topics such as financing decisions, cost behaviour, cost-volume-profit analysis, absorption costing, variance analysis and budgeting.
Marketing
Discover core marketing theories and concepts such as segmentation, targeting and positioning, consumer behaviour, and marketing mix. Apply your understanding of these different concepts in a real-life business project.
Personal and Professional Skills for Contemporary Organisations
Learn about organisational behaviour and HRM concepts. Areas of focus include individual difference, personal development, people management and leadership.
Business Environments
Examine the environments - economic, political, social, legal, cultural - that businesses operate in and explore the impact of their work on these environments.
Operations, Supply Chain and Business Practices
Explore how businesses develop their operations management and supply chain practice. You'll learn the techniques to understand, analyse and evaluate the complexities in today's organisations.
World Economy
Study the changing world economy, developing insights into issues related to international trade, international finance, regional groupings and climate change.
Second year modules
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Compulsory
Responsible Business in Society
Explore concepts like responsible business, corporate social responsibility, business ethics and sustainable development, and learn to understand them in a global context.
Organisational Management
Explore approaches to organisational management and integrate theory and practice. You'll consider various practices and the assumptions behind them.
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Optional
Information Management and Principles of Data Science
Examine the role of data science in consulting and explore its management dimensions. Learn how to establish a better connection between data and international standards.
Internet, e-Commerce and Emerging Technologies
Discover the emerging digital technologies that are affecting the dynamics of e-commerce. You'll learn how to develop a website or mobile app with any coding skills.
The Organisational and Environmental Context of HRM
Develop an understanding of how organisational and environmental context informs human resource management in terms of its design, organisation, leadership, ethics and practice.
Learning and Development
Critically evaluate the theories, different practices, and role that learning and development plays in delivering, influencing and achieving organisational success.
Understanding Entrepreneurship
Develop an understanding of the factors which contribute to successful entrepreneurship, how entrepreneurship differs around the world, and how governments encourage it.
Engaging with Entrepreneurial Organisations
Work with a local small or medium-sized enterprise to solve a problem or produce a plan for the organisation. This hands-on module allows you to apply what you've learned to a real business problem or opportunity.
Sustainable Business and Innovation
Develop insights into the major trends, challenges and innovative concepts relating to business sustainability and corporate responsibility.
Management Systems and Standards for Sustainability
Take a deep dive into the field of sustainable operations and management systems, standards and certifications for business and product sustainability.
Procurement and Supply Management
Learn how procurement ensures the effective supply of the materials that businesses need. Concepts include managing business relationships, planning operations and problem solving.
Supply Chain Information Management and Big Data
Discover the role of information management and big data in supply chains. Learn methods for big data, text mining and social media mining analysis.
Consumer and Business Buyer Behaviour
Build a deeper understanding of consumer behaviour and learn how to use this information to develop effective marketing plans and communications.
Integrated Marketing Communications and Branding
Develop your critical understanding of the role integrated marketing and communications plays in building and sustaining brand identity and equity.
Research Methods
Prepare and complete a small action research project to develop skills that will help you across your studies. It's hands-on learning about research methodology, ethical approval, data analysis and formulating research questions.
Summer School
Broaden your experience in an international setting and study in one of our partner institutions for up to three weeks over the summer. This module can count towards your degree.
Passport Languages
Learn a new language or improve your existing language skills and intercultural competence.
European Business
Enhance your understanding of the EU, both in terms of internal policy and its commercial relations with the rest of the world, including the US and emerging nations.
Year abroad modules
You spend a year studying at one of our partner institutions in Europe, Asia, North America or Australia. This is an outstanding opportunity to broaden your horizons within a different culture and environment, learn new skills and develop valuable international contacts while continuing your studies.
Placement year modules
Your placement is your opportunity to get some real-world work experience under your belt.
Just like in the real world, you’ll be responsible for finding and applying for opportunities, with the added benefit of help and support from university services.
The Centre for Professional Success is a dedicated team within the faculty who provide tailored support to students who are seeking a placement or internship. You'll also benefit from the University's Careers and Employability service based in Student Central.
Final year modules
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Compulsory
International Business
Focus on the core concepts and practical applications of cross-border business activities. You'll explore the controversies and complexities surrounding international business issues.
Business Strategies
Consider business strategy and strategic decision making in diverse contexts. You'll learn to use strategic analysis to make choices that create stakeholder value and strategic advantage.
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Choose one
Dissertation or Research Project
You can choose to complete a dissertation worth 40 credits (across two modules) or a shorter research project at 20 credits (for one module) on a subject relevant to your degree.
SMART: Problem-Solving for Complex Systems
Learn to evaluate complex problems – taking into account multiple dimensions and stakeholder perspectives – to anticipate consequences and make appropriate decisions.
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Optional
Passport Languages
Learn a new language or improve your existing language skills and intercultural competence.
Employee Relations and Engagement
Explore the strategies adopted by employers to manage their employees. You'll study how potential commonalities and conflicts are understood and managed in the workplace.
Critical Concepts in HRM
Develop a critical appreciation of the core theoretical ideas and assumptions underpinning human resource management (HRM) policy and the pursuit of best practice within organisations.
Assessing Entrepreneurial Opportunities
You'll work in a team to come up with the idea for a start-up, analysing the concept from a variety of perspectives and eventually deciding whether to pursue the idea.
Creating the New Venture
Following the Assessing Entrepreneurial Opportunities module, you'll create a business plan for your start-up. Ultimately, you'll pitch to a Dragons' Den style panel for possible investment.
Organisation in the Digital Economy
The internet and emerging digital technologies present business with all kinds of opportunities and challenges. Here you can explore the new management mindsets needed to address them.
Cybersecurity and Organisational Resilience
Cybersecurity is an evolving global challenge - discover the core principles from a management perspective, and develop critical insights into how you would effectively manage an organisation's cybersecurity programme.
Sustainability Reporting and Communication
More than ever, society expects companies to report on their impacts and detail how they are addressing them. Explore the questions of what companies should report on, as well as why and how.
Supply Chain Sustainability and the Environment
Explore sustainability practices in various manufacturing and service organisations, covering issues like responsible procurement and fair trade, humanitarian logistics and disaster relief.
Global Logistics and Port Management
Learn about the structure of global supply chains, international procurement and transport, supply chain security, and the complexity of decision making.
Services Marketing
Look at how a focus on delivering exceptional customer experience, and ensuring the organisation is service-centric, can lead to improved results through customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Digital Marketing and Social Media
Social media and the internet have transformed marketing. Working with real businesses, you'll develop insights to help you use new concepts and tools in the digital landscape.
Business Project Management
Whatever its size, all organisations run projects - study the skills, concepts, tools and techniques to manage them effectively, and learn about the factors affecting project success and failure.
Managing Your Money – Personal Financial Planning
Prepare for the financial challenges and opportunities of life after university. You'll cover topics including tax, student loans, credit, debt, pensions, insurance, savings and investments.
Comparative International Human Resource Management
Consider complex workplace dynamics and cross-cultural and multinational factors. You’ll learn the strategies and practice of human resource management in international contexts.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.