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I choose? BBA Bachelor of Business Administration Our Bachelor of Business Administration is a three-year course offering an holistic understanding of contemporary themes in modern business management. It covers a wide range of issues reflecting modern management practice, including entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, finance, technology management, international business and human resources.
The course aims to develop high quality, entrepreneurial management professionals with the ability to lead different types of business ventures where innovation, networks, ethics and sustainability are the key drivers of change.
The first year provides the foundation for business studies covering business economics, accounting, finance, entrepreneurship and marketing. The second year offers more specialised knowledge on some of the most contemporary themes in management, supported by a generic business research methods module. In the final year, you will gain an holistic understanding of business and entrepreneurial issues around business strategy, development of entrepreneurial ventures, business ethics and law. Moreover, you will be given the opportunity to choose options in human resources and international business, marketing and finance.
BSc Business Management This course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of what is involved in managing organisations in the contemporary context and offers opportunities to develop expertise in a chosen management specialism. The course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue a career in management and to encourage and facilitate critical, analytical thinking. It provides a vital foundation for employment, professional and personal development, further academic study and active participation in wider society. The course also enables you to acquire the personal skills you need to develop as an autonomous and reflective individual, with the capacity for continuous learning.
BA Business Management with a Modern Language
In addition to covering the main areas of our business management course, though with a narrower range of specialisms, as a graduate of this course, you will be ideally equipped for a management career on the global stage. Your year abroad (in year three), will not only help you to develop language skills, but will also provide you with the opportunity to study different national business environments, legal frameworks and customs, so that you are well positioned to work within multinational organisations.
BA Business Management and Modern Languages This course will enable you to study business alongside two modern languages, equipping you well for a career in different sectors of the international business environment. Your year abroad (in year three), will enable you to develop further one of your chosen languages and will provide you with the opportunity to study different national business environments, legal frameworks and customs. It will also allow you to develop your study of particular management specialisms that you would otherwise miss when studying your language modules.
What modules can I take? Introduction to Management This broad-ranging module will provide you with a foundation in the most significant issues in management theory and practice, as well as prepare you for management modules in subsequent years of your course. We will consider some of the connections and disjunctures between management theory and management practice. Our teaching also emphasises the ethics of managing how to balance the bottom line of the business with the organisation’s wider responsibilities to society and other stakeholders.
Introduction to Accounting and Finance This full-year core module will introduce you to certain principles and techniques of accounting and finance. You will discuss the nature and role of accounting, and consider who uses accounting information and for what purposes. The first part of the module will focus on financial accounting, that is, the
preparation and interpretation of financial statements for shareholders, bondholders and government. You will also look at the processes used to record, summarise and present accounting data (the objective of this part of the module is to enable you to prepare company financial statements). Finally, you will discuss the techniques that can be used to analyse and interpret financial statements, and you will investigate the development and role of regulation in governing accounting practice.
Business Creation and Growth This module will introduce you to key features of the business creation and growth process. The early understanding of the business life cycle, and especially of the progressive elements of new venture creation and innovative growth, is central to the appreciation and critical evaluation of business functions and operations at all levels of enterprise activity. Business creation and growth are distinctive phases in the business life cycle, but the sustainability of a new venture is to some extent predicated upon the possibility of growth of that venture, through time. Theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to the study of enterprise are informed by the idea of a business evolving from birth to growth. You will become familiar with the theories and practices characterising business development from both economic and behavioural perspectives.
International Business Environment This module will provide you with an advanced understanding of the external context within which international businesses operate, and the opportunities and challenges it poses to entrepreneurial firms, large and small. It begins by explaining the rationale for studying international business from the perspective of the entrepreneur. It will then introduce you to key international trade theories and practices, and the application of such to the study of entrepreneurship. We will also consider the external challenges facing international firms; particularly economic, financial, political and legal, technological and cultural.
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