Business BA/BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This joint honours course (minor field only) enables you to combine business studies with a subject from the arts, social sciences or sciences. The curriculum provides a broad coverage of business topics.

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

What will you study?

You can choose to study business as a minor field in combination with another subject of your choice. You will study one business module during each year of the programme alongside modules from your major field. Alongside the modules studied in your other chosen subject, you will cover business areas 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 Management

• Business Management

  This module is designed to introduce students to the business function, with specific focus on marketing, data analysis, information systems, economics and the business environment. This module will equip students with the tools and skills to collect and analyse data, and present solutions to real-world problems based on marketing data. Students will learn basic business and economic concepts and their application to current issues.

  
   
• Modules from your second field

Year 2

• Managing Resources

• Managing Resources

  This module considers the extent to which an efficient and effective management of human and financial resources can help organisations to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage. It examines key issues in human and financial resource management, using appropriate conceptual and analytical frameworks which can help to explain the choices available to organisations, and their likely reasons for adopting different approaches to the management of human and financial resources. The module examines key issues in strategic HRM. It demonstrates how various HRM policies and practices can be employed and intertwined to create an environment in which employees are satisfied and perform well. The module also explains the principles and construction of the key financial statements and prepares students to interpret financial information to make appropriate economic decisions and recommendations. In so doing, it provides opportunities for applied learning and professional development.

  
   
• Modules from your second field

Year 3

• Management, Strategy and Organisations

• Management, Strategy and Organisations

  This module considers the development of the role of management in organisations, the importance of strategic analysis and decision making to enable sustainable development and the different contexts in which organisations might operate. You will develop an understanding of the environment in which organisations operate and how organisations use internal resources and competences to achieve competitive advantage. The module examines the role of culture and management in organisations, and the options for growth and development.

  
   
• Modules from your second field