Business BSc

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

You may take option modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

• Descriptions of the individual modules are given in full on the Business School undergraduate module list.

The Programme Teaching team comprises of: dynamic researchers, management educationalists and business practitioners with expertise in a diverse range of business and management topics including those with direct impact on the local and global economy such as sustainability, entrepreneurship, supply management, innovation, social sciences, the service industries including public sector and tourism.

Year 1 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits BEP1010 Business and Society 15 BEP1020 Business Practice and Analysis 15 BEP1030 Operations Management; A Sustainable Perspective 15 BEP1040 Marketing in a Digital Age 15 BEP1050 Economics for Managers 15 BEP1060 Workplace Wellbeing 15 BEP1070 Accounting 15 BEP1080 Theory and Practice of Management 15 Year 2 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits BEP2010 Sustainable Enterprise Economy 15 BEP2020 Project Management 15 BEP2030 Business Practice (Placement/Work Experience Project) 15 BEP2040 Strategic Concepts for Business 15 BEP2050 Finance for Business 15 BEP2060 Research for Inquiry 15 Optional modules

• 30 credits of optional modules

Code ModuleCredits GEO2442 The Politics of Climate Change and Energy 15 GEO2430B Nature and Culture 15 BEP2070 Social Enterprise Management 15 GE02445 Rural Social Issues 15 BIO2425 Introduction to Ecological Consultancy 15 GEO1408B Global Issues in Environmental Science 15 POC1016 Resistance and Transformation: Struggles in Global Politics 15 Year 3 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits BEP3010 Social and Technological Innovation 15 BEP3020 Practice-based Consultancy Management 15 BEP3030 Globalisation and Internationalisation 15 BEP3040 Local-Global Innovation (Cornwall Research Seminar Series) 15 BEP3050 Future-Facing Dissertation/Project 30 Optional modules

• 30 credits of optional modules

Code ModuleCredits GEO3415B Issues in Climate Change 15 GEO3437B Climate Change and Society 15 BIO3037 Ecology of Environmental Change 15 GEO3409B Energy Policies for a Low Carbon Economy 15 BEP3060 Small Business Management 15 BEP3070 Crisis, Change and Creativity in Organisations 15 GEO3447 Waste and Society 15 GEO2435 Evolution of Human Societies 15