BSc (Hons) Business Innovation and Enterprise

Bachelor's degree

In Ormskirk

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Ormskirk

  • Duration

    3 Years

This degree is ideal if you are interested in developing new businesses, while also recognising the importance of understanding business fundamentals and how small and medium sized enterprises gain viability in specific contexts. You will explore how innovation and business development can be undertaken by both start-up and established organisations and evaluate the risks and challenges that this presents. The aim is to follow ideas from inception, through development, to launch. If you see yourself as someone who is creative, can take the initiative, and welcomes change and challenge, then this is the course for you.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Ormskirk (Lancashire)
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St Helens Road, L39 4QP

Start date

On request

About this course

In addition to equipping you with the ability to develop your own business ideas, this degree provides a solid academic foundation for working in areas such as accountancy, administration, banking, education, finance, human resource management, marketing, product development, public sector management, retailing, small and medium-sized enterprise management, general management and further study.

120 UCAS Tariff points on the new UCAS Tariff. No specific subjects are required.

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Subjects

  • Innovation
  • Economics
  • Project
  • Global
  • International
  • Marketing
  • Marketing Communications
  • Marketing Management
  • Organisational Misbehaviour
  • Human Resource management
  • Development economics
  • Digital Goods
  • Business Strategy
  • Taxation
  • Business Project
  • Quality management

Course programme

Year 1

BUS1012 Business Economics (20 credits)

BUS1017 Business Start-Up (20 credits)

You will select four of the following modules:

BUS1013 Introduction to Accounting and Statistics (20 credits)

BUS1014 People and Organisations (20 credits)

BUS1015 Operations Management (20 credits)

BUS1016 Marketing for Business (20 credits)

BUS1018 Statistics for Economics (20 credits)

BUS1019 Information and the Organisation (20 credits)

BUS1025 Designing for an Online Presence (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of one of the optional modules above.

Year 2

BUS2017 Research Methods for Business (20 credits)

BUS2018 Managing the Human Resource (20 credits)

BUS2022 Project Management (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

BUS2020 Graduate Enterprise (20 credits)

BUS2021 Creating Innovation (40 credits)

If you selected BUS2020 Graduate Enterprise you will choose two of the modules below. Alternatively, if you selected BUS2021 Creating Innovation you will choose one of the modules below.

BUS2019 Employability (20 credits)

BUS2023 Quality Management (20 credits)

BUS2024 Managing People (20 credits)

BUS2025 International Business (20 credits)

BUS2026 Global Corporate Social Responsibility (20 credits)

BUS2027 Intermediate Economic Analysis (20 credits)

BUS2029 Leadership Culture and Change (20 credits)

BUS2030 Finance and Performance Management (20 credits)

BUS2031 Retail Marketing Planning (20 credits)

BUS2032 Branding: Integrated Digital Campaigns (20 credits)

BUS2033 Social Media Monitoring and Analytics (20 credits)

BUS2034 Services and Experiential Marketing (20 credits)

BUS2035 Consumer Behaviour (20 credits)

BUS2036 International Economics (20 credits)

BUS2037 Law for Business (20 credits)

BUS2038 Loyalty Generation and CRM (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of the optional module choice above.

Year 3

BUS3024 Strategic Management (20 credits)

BUS3044 Entrepreneurship and Innovation (20 credits)

If you studied BUS2021 Creating Innovation (40 credits) in Year 2, you will study the following module:

BUS3023 Extended Business Project (40 credits)

If you studied BUS2020 Graduate Enterprise in Year 2, you will study a total of 80 credits from the options below. Alternatively, if you studied BUS2021 Creating Innovation in Year 2 and BUS3023 Extended Business Project in Year 3, you will study a total of 40 credits from the options below.

ACC3013 Taxation (20 credits)

BUS3022 Dissertation (40 credits)

BUS3027 Strategic Financial Management (20 credits)

BUS3029 Seeing the Future - The Next Decade of Commerce (20 credits)

BUS3030 Business Strategy and Digital Goods (20 credits)

BUS3031 Global Logistics and International Trade (20 credits)

BUS3033 Development Economics (20 credits)

BUS3034 Contemporary Issues in Economics (20 credits)

BUS3036 Strategic Human Resource Management (20 credits)

BUS3037 Organisational Misbehaviour (20 credits)

BUS3039 Global Marketing Management (20 credits)

BUS3040 Marketing and Society (20 credits)

BUS3041 Advertising in Marketing Communications (20 credits)

BUS3042 Marketing Simulation (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.

Additional information

International students enrolling on the programme in academic year 2017/18 are £11,575 per annum.

How will I be assessed?

Throughout the programme, there is a combination of different forms of assessment to test intellectual development, vocational capabilities and critical thinking.

Who will be teaching me?

All of our staff are passionate about student learning and development. This degree has been designed by specialists in accounting, business development, human resource management, information systems, marketing, and the digital economy. The programme team includes researchers who publish widely and are also actively working with local and national businesses and international research groups on cutting edge management thinking.

BSc (Hons) Business Innovation and Enterprise

£ 9,250 + VAT