B.A. Human Resource Management with Psychology

This common first year among some of our business courses provides you with a broad understanding of how business operates as well as providing you with a sound grounding of HRM.
Core units in this year include:

• Introduction to Human Resource Management
• IT and Academic Skills for HR Professionals
• People Work and Organisations
• Business Operations
• Business Accounting
• Understanding Markets and the Economy
• Key Ideas in Human and Animal Psychology
• The Psychology of Everyday Life

Develop your understanding of business and develop your understanding of human resource management. Also begin to tailor your degree through our range of options including relevant psychology units which will increase your knowledge as an HR practitioner.
Core units in this year include:

• Human Resource Development
• Managing Business Relationships

Options to choose from in this year include:

• Business and Employment Law
• Research and Quantitative Methods for Business
• Organisational Analysis and Leadership
• Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• a foreign language

Specialise further in a range of specific business disciplines and the aspects of HR that particularly interest you. You will also have a choice for your final year project from either a dissertation, work-based learning project or a business research project.
Core units in this year include:

• Strategic and Comparative Human Resource Management
• HRM Developments and Debates People Resourcing

Options to choose from in this year include:

• Health and Clinical Psychology
• Forensic Psychology
• Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology
• a foreign language

Our teaching approach involves a varied structure of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and practical sessions. We aim to provide a stimulating environment that encourages use of IT teaching methods as well as participation in group discussions and projects, alongside individual study.

We ensure a balance in assessment approaches to suit differing learning styles. Here’s how we assess your work:

• individual and group coursework
• examinations
• online activities
• presentations
• your choice of independent research