BSc (Hons) Business and Psychology with Foundation Year

Bucks New University

Bachelor's degree

In High Wycombe

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    High wycombe

  • Duration

    4 Years

The Foundation Year will allow you to develop your academic study skills and build confidence in your abilities, identifying your own strengths and development needs for progression onto an undergraduate degree.

Business is about organisations, processes and, most importantly, about people. It’s about the inner workings of an organisation; the study of human behaviour within a business environment that can make or break an organisation.

This joint award programme provides various opportunities for you to apply core psychology knowledge within a corporate setting. The course enables you to study business and combine it with the study of human behaviour.

Understanding human behaviour impacts significantly on key business roles such as marketing or human resource management (HRM). How do customers think? How do our families impact our choices of brands and our decisions about where and when to shop? How do we encourage employees to maximise their performance at work, and offer excellent customer service? How do we motivate employees?

This joint business and psychology programme would be an excellent route into marketing or human resources (HR) and business management in general.

The programme is equally suitable for students who are interested in studying Psychology, but who do not see themselves working in a therapy/counselling role but more of an Occupational Psychology route, maybe working in hospitals, prisons or schools. You would apply your knowledge of psychology to an organisation, to support the development and wellbeing of individuals within the organisation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
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High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, HP11 2JZ

Start date

On request

About this course

Our programme will help you gain applied and employable skills that will help you in future roles within human resources management, executive leadership or advertising and marketing communications.

Those who are interested in all aspects of human behaviour and who wish to study this at degree level, but who do not seek to become Chartered Psychologists, should choose this award.

This programme is also for students looking to pursue a career in business management with a focus on marketing and/or human resource management.

This programme is also designed to inspire and facilitate the development of a variety of desirable, transferable skills that will enhance employability in any future career, particularly those valuing dealings with people. Such skills include communication, numeracy, teamwork, critical thinking, computing, independent learning and more.

Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements for the 3-year undergraduate programme, or those who do not feel fully prepared for a Level 4 course, will be considered for the 4-year programme including a Foundation Year. If you wish to enquire further, please send your query along with any academic evidence or references to admissions@bucks.ac.uk

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Subjects

  • Psychology
  • Marketing
  • Human Behaviour
  • People Management
  • Business Decisions
  • Biological Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Qualitative research
  • Consumer Psychology
  • International HRM

Course programme

This module map provides a list of the modules that make up your course.

Each module is worth a specified number of credits (typically either 15 or 30 credits for undergraduate courses). Compulsory (or ‘core’) modules cover key subject knowledge, while ‘option’ modules enable you to develop your own interests. For a full-time course you must take modules worth a total of 120 credits at each level of the course. The number of option modules you can take depends on the number of compulsory modules at each level. You can find more information about how your course is structured via the Academic Advice pages.

Our teaching is informed by research and employer requirements, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the subject area. In addition, where we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an option module, this may not be offered. If an option module does not run, we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

The modules available on this course are as follows:

Foundation Year Modules
  • Preparing for Success Knowledge and Creativity
  • Preparing for Success Self-development and Responsibility
  • Inquiry and Research Skills
  • Introduction to Business Studies
Year 1 Modules
  • Introduction to People Management
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Introduction to Developmental and Social Psychology
  • Data Insights for Business decisions
  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Introduction to Personality and Applying Psychology
  • Introduction to Biological Psychology and Cognitive Psychology
Year 2 Modules
  • Business Consulting
  • Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology
  • Personality & Individual Differences
  • Consulting in practice
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Conceptual & Historical Issues in Psychology
  • Consumer Psychology (optional)
  • Resourcing and Talent Planning (optional)
  • Managing and Engaging People (optional)
  • Contemporary Business Economics (optional)
  • Strategic Marketing (optional)
  • Operations and Service Management (optional)
  • International HRM (optional)
  • Customer Experience (optional)
Year 3 Modules
  • Strategic Agility
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology
  • Dissertation
  • International Marketing Management (optional)
  • HR Strategy (optional)
  • Police Psychology & Legal Framework (optional)
  • Abnormal Psychology (optional)
  • Positive Psychology (optional)
  • Health Psychology (optional)
  • Business & Organisational Psychology (optional)
  • Investigative & Forensic Psychology (optional)
  • Counselling Psychology (optional)
  • Exceptional Human Experience (optional)
  • Brain, Mind & Behaviour (optional)

Additional information

Full Time International, September 2019: £12,000 per year

Full Time Home and EU, February 2020: £9,250 per year

Full Time International, February 2020: £12,000 per year

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BSc (Hons) Business and Psychology with Foundation Year

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