BA (Hons) - International Business Management (integrated foundation year)

Year one

• Essential University Skills One
  Develop the academic and professional skills required for effective learning and successful progression through your chosen course.
• Contemporary Issues and the Media
  Explore a range of contemporary issues through the lens of the media that relates to your subject area.
• Business Innovation
  Develop your own business idea and explore the interaction between different business disciplines to ensure success in profit and non-profit making organisations.
• Essential University Skills Two
  Further develop the skills acquired in Essential University Skills 1.
• Leading and Managing Individuals and Organisations
  An introduction to key concepts in leadership and management.
• Individual Case Study
  Undertake an individual given case study using a problem based approach.

Year two

• Managing People and Organisations
  Gain the necessary skills and confidence to be successful within a business and management setting.
• The Business Environment
  Develop an understanding of the nature and formats of business organisations in the modern, market type economy and how they operate within the legal and economic framework.
• Introduction to Business Finance
  Develop your knowledge and understanding of how to prepare and process basic financial accounting information.
• Fundamentals of Business
  Learn about business; its scope, nature, types, management functions, systems, leadership, range and challenges and how they relate to stakeholder responsibilities.
• Principles of Marketing
  Learn about the importance of marketing’s role in driving success and delivering results.
• Management Accounting
  Develop knowledge and understanding of how to prepare and process basic cost and management accounting information to support management in planning and decision-making in a variety of business contexts.

Year three

• Organisational Behaviour
  An introduction to the study of human behaviour within organisations, evaluating and analysing the impact on organisational behaviour in a range of geographical contexts.
• Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainability in Practice
  Develop an understanding and command of the linkages between environmental, economic and social sustainability issues, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the global business environment.
• Global Systems Business and Culture
  Evaluate and analyse the range of global business systems, cultures and behaviours.
• Services Marketing
  Explore the theoretical development and underpinning of marketing as related to service sector industries.
• Managing Operations
  Explore the principle, nature and scope of the operations and functions in both services and products organisations.
• International Economics
  Develop an understanding of how global forces can alter and shape an economy, and how international organisations can control these factors.

Year four

• Strategic Analysis
  Develop an understanding and command of strategic concepts related to organisations, including strategic choices, analysis and formulation.
• International Marketing
  Learn to appraise current international marketing theories.
• Applied Business Research and Analysis (optional)
  Explore and evaluate a range of research methods for business management.
• Independent Project (optional)
  Initiate, plan, research, sustain and evaluate an extended piece of independent intellectual work based on individual initiative.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (optional)
  Understand the nature and significance of small businesses within different sectors, and analyse the entrepreneurial nature of successful small business development.
• Global Business (optional)
  Critically analyse how global businesses and globalisation impacts on the way companies operate.
• International Human Resource Management (optional)
  Evaluate human resources in domestic and international contexts.