Applied Accounting and Business (BSc): 4-year, part-time, January start

Course structure

The programme has been designed for maximum flexibility, so there is no prescribed order in which you should take modules from either the Certificate and Professional Level modules of ACA or your top-up modules from Birkbeck. This is to allow students and employers to tailor training programmes and degree structures according to their business needs. However, it is normally expected that Critical Reflection on Practice is the first module taken, while Researching the Workplace is normally the last.

You should normally take modules worth at least 30 credits per year from the Birkbeck schedule, which is the threshold for eligibility for a student loan.

As part of your top-up degree, you take the following modules:

In Year 1, you take Critical Reflection on Practice. This will normally be the first Birkbeck module you take, and is a sophisticated approach to reflective practice to help you realise the inter-relationship between professional experience and academic study while studying for the Certificate and Professional Level of ACA.

In Year 2, you choose option modules worth 30 credits.

In Year 3, you take Approaches to Research and choose option modules worth 45 credits.

In Year 4, you complete the Researching the Workplace module.

Year 1: compulsory module

• Critical Reflection on Practice

Year 2 (option modules)

• Brand Development
• Buyer Behaviour
• Employment Relations and Human Resources Management
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business
• International Business
• Management of Innovation
• Management Studies I
• Management Studies II
• Managerial Economics
• Marketing Principles and Practices
• Marketing Strategy
• Operations Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Quantitative Methods

Year 3 : compulsory module

• Approaches to Research

Year 4: compulsory module

• Researching the Workplace

Sample timetable Management Undergraduate Sample Timetable 2014-15.pdf — PDF document, 61 kB (62989 bytes)