Business and Law Administration FdA

Why choose this course?

This course is ideal if you work as an administrator in a legal environment and would like to develop your skills and gain an academic qualification. It has been developed with employers to provide career-oriented skills and knowledge. A key feature of the course is that aspects of your workplace role will be incorporated into the curriculum.

Depending on your academic achievement, you can top up your qualification to a full honours degree via further part-time study.

What will you study?

You will cover the main business disciplines and gain an understanding of finance, law and human resource management. You will carry out work-based learning assessments to develop your ability to apply your knowledge in practical situations. The curriculum includes two 'Legal Environment' modules, which will enable you to:

• develop a general knowledge and understanding of the legal context within which business and other organisational activity operates; and
• develop a more detailed understanding of at least one substantive area of law.

Where will you study?

Teaching for this course takes place at Kingston College.

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

• Personal Development
• Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
• Financial Management I
• Legal Environment I
• Business Environment
• Learning from Experience/Accreditation of Prior Learning

Year 2

• Information Management
• Research Methods
• Operations and Project Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Human Resource Management
• Financial Management II
• Legal Environment II
• Work-based Project Proposal