N2FY Business Management with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

Skills and experience gained Developed in close dialogue with employers, the course has been designed to enable you to acquire communication, problem-solving, teamwork and leadership skills. During your final year, you will complete a dissertation, study strategic management, change management and project management and gain the opportunity to put your skills in to practice with an optional paid work placement year. This course emphasises employability and focuses on the practical as well as the theoretical skills you will need to be a successful and effective business manager. During the course you will develop professional skills through our links with the Chartered Management Institute (CIM). A significant emphasis of the approach taken seeks to provide for the needs of individual students helping them derive maximum benefit from teaching and learning situations by utilizing peer group input, and assessment as well as self development learning and reflection techniques. Transferable key skills are explicitly assimilated into individual unit syllabuses and the various forms of summative and formative assessments undertaken throughout the course help develop critical management skills. The units offered are designed to encourage students to develop themselves as independent and analytical learners and to adopt a holistic but inter related perspective to the study of Business and Management. They are encouraged from the outset to put business into a variety of organisational and operating contexts and to be aware of the changing nature of the management functions within which business operates. They are expected to make use of the media in order to keep up to date with information, examples, debates, discussions, and events that will affect business practice. ...