Business BA/BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

Kingston's joint honours field in Business enables you to explore a subject from the arts, social sciences or sciences alongside your business studies.The curriculum provides a broad coverage of business topics, with a wide range of option modules in the final year.

Depending on whether you choose to study Business as a half or minor field, four or three of the eight modules you take each year will be from the business field. You will be registered with the faculty running the field you choose to combine with Business.

See the Course combinations section for more information about the different joint honours options.

What will you study?

Alongside your studies in your second subject, you will cover areas of business such as marketing, human resource management, business computing, corporate strategy and accounting. You will develop the ability to analyse business management issues and come up with solutions. You will also learn to evaluate and appraise recent research and consultancy.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Business Environment
• Managing Information
• Enterprise Skills
• Organisational Studies OR People and the World of Work
• Modules from your second field

Year 2

• Accounting in a Business Context
• Marketing Management
• Operations Management
• Human Resource Management OR Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
• Modules from your second field

Year 3

• Corporate Strategy
• Option modules

• Option modules

  These might include:

  • Business-to-Business Marketing;
  • Financial Resource Management;
  • International Business;
  • International Marketing;
  • Management Accounting;
  • Human Resource Management II; and/or
  • Enterprise in Action.
  
   
• Modules from your second field