Business and Professional Administration FdA

Why choose this course?

If you work as an administrator and would like to develop your skills and gain an academic qualification, this course is ideal. 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, marketing and human resource management. You will carry out work-based learning assessments to develop your ability to apply your knowledge in practical situations.

Where will you study?

The course is taught at Kingston College, Richmond upon Thames College and West Thames College.

Course director Deborah Pinder-Young, talks about studying Business and Professional Administration at both foundation and degree level.

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
• Marketing Management I
• Business Environment
• Learning from Experience/Accreditation of Prior Learning

Year 2

• Information Management
• Research Methods
• Operations Management
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Human Resource Management
• Financial Management II
• Marketing Management II